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URBAN PODCAST WORKSHOP SERIES 2013 <\/p>\n
The objective of the workshop series is to explore how podcasting can be used as a critical urban technique and tool. To achieve this, technical assistance in recording, sound engineering and broadcasting has been combined with inquiries in listening, bodily awareness, qualitative description of sound events and mapping, psychoacoustics, voice qualities, narrative modes, politics. Emphasis has been given on how the process of podcasting can amplify local-relevant urban practices, while providing a sensible understanding on the broader ecological dimensions of places. <\/p>\n
In the workshop series podcasting is approached as a process with three layers and addressed both as a way of knowing & through its produced output. <\/p>\n
A) Audio thread
\nB) Socio-spatial\/acoustics framework
\nC) Technical prism <\/p>\n
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AUDIO THREAD <\/p>\n
1 Capture – the direct collection\/ production of sound facts (field recording and practitioner’s own voice recording) along with the incorporation\/ correlation of secondary data (interviews, audio samples) <\/p>\n
2 Edit – the audio processing of the facts <\/p>\n
3 Distribution – the dissemination of the audio work <\/p>\n
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SOCIO-SPATIAL\/ACOUSTICS FRAMEWORK <\/p>\n
Drawing from spatial and sensory studies the framework of the workshop builds upon: <\/p>\n
1 Reflexivity & immersion of the practitioner in the site\/ situation
\nHow the material self (non-discursive\/ discursive) engages with the (human & non human) agents <\/p>\n
2 Narrative building
\nThe produced output as a place based storytelling & intervention into the ecology of the site\/ situation <\/p>\n
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TECHNICAL PRISM <\/p>\n
The workshop series are exploratory, while keeping a critical stance towards how technical practices are conceived & appropriated, relating more particularly to
\n– sensory, neurophysiological, societal implications
\n– political economy of hardware, software, information <\/p>\n
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