UTAS SOUND 2012

University of Tasmania SOUND 2012. www.utas.edu.au ELECTRONIC MEDIA, TASMANIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS. Lecturer - Scot Cotterell www.scotcotterell.com

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW-jSa9_k3M

Once Upon a Time in the West - Opening sequence

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Goyte re-mixs Goyte remixs from youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opg4VGvyi3M

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STUDENT PRESENTATIONS - OLIVIA - Subject: Nomad Studio/ Nancy Mauro-Flude. Synopsis: Opened with intensely interwoven narrative A/V piece collab between Nomad studio/PLaFon, moved onto an exploratory interest in the live sound and performance works of Nancy Mauro-Flude, showed clips from works ranging 6 years, talked about the qualities and mixes of media/content and ideas that are in the work, the movement between and of electronics, bodies, light, theatricality.

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also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avalanches

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also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GX_Jupitter-Larsen

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STUDENT PRESENTATIONS - MICHAEL - Subject: GX-Jupitter Larsen .

Synopsis: Background to long-running noise project and band, The Haters. Short web clips chronologically show the concerns of the work: entropy, post-industrialism, the machine-aesthetic, harsh noise, spectacle. Discussed tropes/recurrent themes in the work. Branched out to collaborations and wrapped up with 'Aerosol' a collaborative work that fuses the concerns together artists concerns. Masked A/V Impro Havoc 

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STUDENT PRESENTATIONS - DARCY - Subject: The Avalanches. Synopsis: Insightful brief background to group, why it was of interest, how it related to re-mix/mash-up/sampling. Cool isolation of samples used in 'Frontier Psychiatrist' (groups breakthrough track) compared with Section of finished track. Discussed placement within whole album, isolation as 'radio hit'. Lineage of some samples/legal issues.

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We looked at/and touched:

MIXERS - basic types - Standard small 4 channel, 2 channel DJ - inputs/outputs, uses/misuses.

TURNTABLE - Technics Standard - breakdown - parts, interactions, uses/misuses. 

RECORD TYPES - 'found sound', spoken word/radio broadcast/comedy/battle records

'DIGGING' - A crate of discarded records, looking for gems/usuable samples/obscure sounds.

KEYS - Roland full scale key synth, inputs/outputs. KORG Monotron Ribbon Synth - DEMO

ROLAND SH-3A Analog Synth - description of sections, I/O - DEMO

MICRO-TEC - Monotron/Lecci Mixer/

NO-INPUT - DEMO on Tapco 4 channel mixer.

Scratching/Cutting - One channel demo, volume/crossfader uses, Slipmat, Tuning, Pitch Bends, Students had good old play with Sample records, 'scratching is like patting a kitten'

MIDI - Basic MIDI kb rundown, Evolution.

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Today was ANALOG/HARDWARE day - after weeks of screen and machine based working, discussion, listening and viewing sessions post task 1, today was about actual gear, things with 3 dimensions.

break time - the keen record diggers. This discarded crate held a few gems - old research records on oceanography.  1st rule of crate digging - get in first! Nearby black shoulder is manipulating turntable.

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WEEK FIVE: Beginning the REMIX

Watch - Everything is a Remix series. (everythingisaremix.info)

Show - Scot Cotterell's 'Mixtape' - (http://www.scotcotterell.com/castmix.htm)

Overview - Instrumentals/accapellas/samples.

- PRO TOOLS overview - layout, basic operations.

- Student presentations on an artist of their choice commence next week.

NEXT WEEK - Analogue / IRL Hardware - knobs, sliders, leads, black boxes, feedback

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