This next listening is a segment from NPR’s Radio Lab on Musical Language, it’s about 4o minutes long. Please make sure you listen to it before next class. You can listen directly using the link below or you can go to Radio Lab’s website.
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Today in class we talked about both rhythm and tempo as well as the emotional impact that sounds can have on us. Your assignment for this project is to create a piece of audio that transitions from one emotional element to another. This can be done in the form of a song, a sound poem, a narrative or an audioscape. This project must be one and a half to two minutes, have at least 3 audio bits originally recorded by you.v
Today in class we went over the basic building blocks of time. Change: is the way we measure time, this could be the change from day to night, the melting of an ice cube or the change in daily temperature of the seasons.
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Welcome to Time Arts
Hello, everyone. As I said in class today, in honor of all the new things that this term brings I will be trying a number of new things in this class. One of those new things is this site. Here you should be able to download the lessons and exercises you need as well as view the class notes etc.
Today we talked about how our brain like to find patterns and structure. Part of this structure is the narrative we each tell ourselves, the narrative of our life. ‘You Are Not So Smart’ is an excellent blog and podcast which deals with how our brain works and how we can sometimes be fooled by it. In this excerpt David McRaney reads a section from his book which deals with narrative bias.
As promised in today’s lecture here are some links to the videos I talked about or played. You might also want to try the silk – milk thing out on your friends.