Wednesday, February 18, 2009

sounds

Blogging: 
http://risoundscapes.blogspot.com/

You need:

1) a group email account (e.g. gmail account), then email me (chungshih[at]ri.sch.edu.sg)

a) group name; b) group members' names with register numbers; c) group email address

2) a sound file to be hosted at a free file host see below:

a) Make a stereo mp3 file 1 to 3 mins long; go to File and select Export as Mp3, you may need lame_enc.dll or other similar library files.

b) For free file host, see:

http://www.google.com.sg/search?hl=en&q=free+file+hosting&meta=

Some examples of free file hosts:

http://www.box.net/
http://imeem.com

3) A writeup as blog post:To post, register at Google Blogger your group. Each group is to make one posting. 

One interesting example of soundscape webposting:

http://www.escoitar.org/Soundscapes-from-Venezuela

Do write about your work:

a) considering the materials employed - what are they? how they have been processed? how they have been organized? and why?; i.e. the creative decisions taken

b) what moods, expressions and/or images the music evokes, and how that relates back to the subject of RI Soundscapes?