Week 1
Learn to Listen to Your Environment
In Class
- Course kickoff (Bart Hengeveld)
- Lecture: “Listening to the Everyday World” (Berry Eggen)
- Basics in Field Recording (Francesco Di Maggio)
- Discussing sound and exchanging thoughts
Key Ideas
- Sound as a physical phenomenon — vibration, propagation, perception
- Listening as an active, intentional act — different from hearing
- Field Recording as a listening practice — what does your ordinary day sound like?
Homework — Individual
Make an audiocumentary (audio documentary) of a typical day in your life that gives insight into your everyday soundscape. Maximum length: 5 minutes. Upload to Canvas.
See Assignment 1 for full brief.
Reading
Roland Barthes — Listening (1985) — PDF on Canvas
Linked from
- Field RecordingField recording is the practice of recording sound in real environments — outdoors, indoors, urban, industrial, natural.
- ListeningHearing is the passive reception of sound waves by the auditory system — it happens automatically. Listening is an active, intentional act of directed attention.