This collaborative, participatory workshop is meant to help create sonic connections between all of us as we are forced to physically distance. By sharing our acoustic spaces together we can find commonality between each other and create a space for empathy and care during these precarious times.
Over the course of this 90-minute workshop, we will walk through creating soundscapes from our indoor sonic environment. Starting with a brief presentation on acoustic exploration, afterwards participants will be invited to explore their homes/apartments to record sounds with their phones/recording devices. Afterwards we will come back together and we will go through a short workshop on how to compose soundscapes with Audacity, an open-source audio editing software. Participants will upload their recordings to a shared drive (Dropbox/Google Drive) and be given time to put together a soundscape with everyone’s recordings. At the end of the workshop, we will share our soundscapes together.
Requirements:
- Computer with internet access
- Some audio recording device, which can be your phone or a field recorder
- Before the workshop, participants are asked to download and install Audacity, a free, open-source audio editing software that works on MacOS, Windows, and Linux.
We will be in touch to registered participants for further workshop details and links to the online meeting room. Please email contact@mutantpromise.net if you have any questions.
