Proposal
for Two
Core Audio Production
Courses
My
design for these two
core courses would be
largely
influenced by
what I see as two prevalent
directions
in audio art
today:
studio-based production
and
post production work;
and, "post
studio",
context-driven, real
time
audio work. The first
direction,
studio-based
audio
production, includes
a
vast amount
work being done in
both
commercial
and artistic realms.
This
first direction typically
has
an
inherent lag
time
between production
and
distribution or presentation
of
the
work. The
second direction,
context-driven,
real
time audio
work, is often
times
generated
and experienced
simultaneously
at
multiple
nodes
in
the
highly
networked,
interactive
realms of the Internet,
or
what
Stephen
Johnson regards
as “interface
culture”.
Unlike
studio-based
audio
work,
context driven,
real time
audio
work has
little
or no lag time
between
production,
distribution
and the listening
experience.
This second
direction, I
think,
is
more
prevalent
in most students/artists
daily interfacings
with
the culture
at large, and
thus
has
the
potential
to
be directly
linked
to
their
daily
lives in their
physical
and virtual communities.
A
second influence on
my design for these two
core courses would
be
the
necessity
to
teach
fundamental
audio production skills
for students working across
a wide range of time-based
media. While attending
to this necessity,
it
would also be necessary
to
engage students in the
process of
making meaningful work
and acquiring a working
knowledge of audio art's
history.
Ideally,
the two courses would
work
best if they were sequenced
so
that there would be
a carryover of technical
skills,
disciplined
work habits, developed
data banks and personal
archives,
analytical and critical
thinking
skills, and the
working knowledge of
the
conceptual and historical
development of audio
art.
Audio
art produced
in and out of the studio
is
equally
viable and can
have
use
value to students working
in
a wide range of mediums.
Therefore,
the curriculum
design
challenge
of these
two core courses would
be to
present practical and
theoretical connections
between
these two prevailing
modes
of
production and
presentation.
Teaching the technical
and conceptual aspects
of these two
modes
would
provide
students with a solid
foundation for producing
quality audio
while at the same time
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