Independence, Conjunction and Concurrence: Sound for the Moving Image

Code:

373MICC

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Range:

16/S

Tutor:

Pavel JECH

Synopsis:

Lecturer: Eric Rosenzveig, Coordinator Pavel Jech

Date and location: Saturday and Sunday 1-2. 3. 2008 at 10-18h, room no. 3

Course requirements: Credit/3 - for 100% participation - in English

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Outline and Syllabus:

This short module will provide a theoretical & practical cash course in creating the digital sound space for contemporary media works (film, video or installation). It will focus on the fundamentals of using sound to furnish meaning, whether for narrative, documentary or abstract works.

We will follow the thread of production through the various elements that comprise a soundtrack, based on the real budgetary and time limitations faced by the artist.

Basic precepts, and tips and tricks: from conception to sound capture to creation to edit to mix to output - via the building blocks of a soundtrack including dialogue, narration, music, foley, ambient sound, and most importantly sound effect/sound design.

With provided readings, bibliography & URLs, DVD examples, hardware & software hands-on.

Eric Rosenzveig is a Canadian composer/programmer of interactive media environments, either performed or installed, often networked and primarily in collaboration with the visual artist Willy Le Maitre. Since 1992 his work has centered on realtime methods of integrating sound and moving image, primarily with the instrument The Very Nervous System, developed by David Rokeby. From 1998 to 2001 Le Maitre & Rosenzveig developed the autonomous system The Appearance Machine, an artwork which produced artworks. This resulted in installations, DVD's, objects and a perpetual realtime live video stream. From 2002-04 they focused their energies on building software tools and devising methods for multiple media artists to author works while collaborating „conversationally“ using audio and video over

high-speed networks - the playList project. As a professional musician & composer he recorded and toured with the ensemble FAT during the 1980's, and since has collaborated with musicians Barry Guy, Sainkho Namtchylak, Rashid Bakr, Shuni Tsou, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Tetsu Inoue and others. As a solo artist he has developed soundtracks for film, video, dance and live presentation. Throughout he has been a curator/producer of music concerts & recordings: in 2001-2003 as artistic & managing director of the multi-channel sound art gallery Engine 27 in New York City. He has also produced recordings of ritual and traditional music in the field and studio.

Enrollment: 11 maximum

Dates: Saturday, March 1, Sunday, March 2, from 10 a.m.

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Schedule for summer semester 2007/2008:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

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Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
Animovaná tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (optional subject)
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Režie - bakalář (optional subject)
Režie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Kamera - bakalář (optional subject)
Kamera - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Produkce - bakalář (optional subject)
Produkce - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (optional subject)
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