Week 6: Listening and the Nature of Sound

• Things that you didn't understand / didn't make sense
• Descriptions you found evocative / interesting

Readings with Thomas

• Pauline Oliveros
• Pauline Oliveros, Bye Bye Butterfly

• Sound 1
• Sound 2
• Sound 3
• Sound 4
• Sound 5
• Sound 6

• Recording a track (meters, levels)
• Playback
• Amplifying, normalizing
• Adding new tracks
• Shifting pieces around
• Soloing and muting tracks
• Volume automation
• Generating a grid

Explain Homework

Possible extra topics: "sliding down the curve of the doppler effect", "footsteps and clapping".