Schedule
Lessons⌗
Week 1 (8/21) Capturing Sound in the Acoustic Era: Recording Professionals and Clever Mechanics⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Review the syllabus
- sign up for hypothes.is
- A quick tutorial on usage
- What are the causes that make recording unique from live performance?
Read: Connect – Summarize – Question – Reply Annotation Assignment Instructions and respond to questions on D2L about reading
Thursday⌗
- History of microphones
- Capturing Sound in the Acoustic Era: Recording Professionals and Clever Mechanics
Week 2 (8/28) - The Studio Electrifies: Radio, Recording, and the Birth of the Small⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Acoustic Sound
- Capturing Sound in the Acoustic Era: Recording Professionals and Clever Mechanics - continue the slides from here
- The Studio Electrifies: Radio, Recording, and the Birth of the Small
Thursday⌗
- Field trip - visit the Lake County Museum!!!
- Sign up for an account: Library at i78s
- Finish: The Studio Electrifies: Radio, Recording, and the Birth of the Small
Week 3 (9/4) - A Passion for Sound: Amateur Recordists, the Audio Engineering Society, and the Evolution of a Profession⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Listening Test 1 - Study Guide - Tuesday, September 12
- Capturing the Moment, Falling in Love with the Phonograph: Amateurs and the Growth of Interest in Recording - slides
Read: Choose one article from the first AES Journal - make three comments and a reply. You can reply on someone else’s article.
Thursday⌗
- 20 minutes - Listening practice
- Finish the slides from Tuesday.
- The Audio Engineering Society, Audio Fairs, and Audiophiles
- Discuss articles you read when we get to the first issue.
Week 4 (9/11) - When High Fidelity Was New: The Studio as Instrument⌗
Tuesday⌗
- 20 minutes: Listening Test 1 - 1870s-1929
- 10 minutes: Explain timeline project
- 45 minutes: Lecture
Interactive timeline project: https://timeline.knightlab.com/ - 10 objects or people that are important to the historical development of the time period.
Due September 19th
Reading:
- NBC’s new studios in Radio City - pg 8 - great (3 pages) article about the NBC studios
- CBS Studio Building - pg 89 - great pictures, but there’s more writing in the previous article
Thursday⌗
- No class: DSU day of service
Week 5 (9/18) - Control Men in Technological Transition: Engineering the Performance in the Age of High Fidelity⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Present interactive timeline projects
- Continue When High Fidelity Was New: The Studio as Instrument
Thursday⌗
- The other timeline presentations
- Finish When High Fidelity Was New: The Studio as Instrument
Week 6 (9/25)⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Setup routing with the Toft
- Just use two ribbon microphones
- a send to the stairwell, TCB hall, or both
- everything recorded live, no edits
- Record ATB-L and ATB-R into Reaper with one stereo track for backup
Project 1: Reel-to-Reel - Due 10/5
Thursday⌗
- Review reel-to-reel assignment and routing
Week 7 (10/2)⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Questions about the reel-to-reel project?
- Finish When High Fidelity Was New: The Studio as Instrument
- Cool project: Home » Chamber Reverb Challenge
- Exploring plugin models of historical reverbs
Thursday⌗
- Listen to reel-to-reel projects from tape
Week 8 (10/9) - In-class work on the mid-term project⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Finish listening to reel-to-reel projects
- Control Men in Technological Transition: Engineering the Performance in the Age of High Fidelity
Thursday⌗
- More Control Men in Technological Transition: Engineering the Performance in the Age of High Fidelity
Week 9 (10/16)⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Listening Test 2: Link - October 24
- Interactive StoryMap Project: project outline - Due October 26
- More Control Men in Technological Transition: Engineering the Performance in the Age of High Fidelity
Thursday⌗
- Talk about topics for interactive project
- The Search for the Sound: Rhythm and Blues, Rock ’n’ Roll, and the Rise of the Independents
Week 10 (10/23)⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Listening test
- The Search for the Sound: Rhythm and Blues, Rock ’n’ Roll, and the Rise of the Independents
Thursday⌗
- At conference, finish your presentation if you haven’t already.
Week 11 (10/30) - Origins of Sampling⌗
Tuesday⌗
- StoryMap Project Presentations
- Introducing Recording Project 2: Record Sampling - Due 11/7
Thursday⌗
- Remaining StoryMap Project Presentations
- Music in 1s and 0s: The Art and Politics of Digital Sampling
Week 12 (11/6)⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Remaining StoryMap Project Presentations
- Music in 1s and 0s: The Art and Politics of Digital Sampling
Thursday⌗
Submit a proposal by next Tuesday Final Project Guidelines
Week 13 (11/13)⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Listen to sampling projects
Thursday⌗
- Go over TOFT mixdown process
Week 14 (11/20)⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Review TOFT mixdown process
Thursday⌗
- Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 15 (11/27)⌗
Tuesday⌗
- Each student show’s ability to route signals into TOFT and out to the outboard gear.
Thursday⌗
- Pick a project and have students create a mixdown to the TOFT as a group.
- Use the UA Plugins when necessary instead of the outboard gear.
Week 16 (12/4)⌗
- Individual Meetings
Final Exam⌗
December 7th, 1 - 3 pm