Fwd: savail and IDAH

[Mack Hagood]

Maria Kennedy passes along this sound-related event taking place at SAVAIL...

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From: Inst Digital Arts & Humanities <id...@indiana.edu>

Date: February 24, 2011 1:51:04 PM EST

To: "Hagood III, William McDonald" <whag...@indiana.edu>

Subject: savail and IDAH

Hey Mack

 

Here is the info on the SAVAIL sound analysis seminar:

 

We would like to announce a seminar in sound analysis that may be of interest to your students and faculty. It will be held at the Sound and Video Analysis Instructional Lab (SAVAIL) Conference Room, E172 Wells Library, on March 7, 2011 from 3:30-5:00pm.

 

Many fields of the humanities and social sciences are concerned with sound – as a medium of communication or a form of data, as a stimulus that elicits variable response, as a cultural object, as a consumable commodity, as a symptom of historical change, as a catalyst to virtual realism, as a product of technology, and on and on.

 

But sound is notoriously difficult to describe in both its acoustic and auditory forms, and even more difficult to dissect and evaluate as it changes through space and time.

 

Sound analysis is a method of examining the details of sound that pass by too quickly to identify by ear, and it suggests a vocabulary to label those details. Projects carried out at SAVAIL have included comparisons of tones produced by baroque versus modern cellos, identification of phonetic features distinguishing political speech making from conversation of political issues, analysis of acoustic details conveying “nurseness” in commercial advertisements for laxatives, and the isolation of sonic elements contributing to the soundscape of an ethnographic field tape.

 

This seminar will present the results of several projects completed or under way in SAVAIL. It will also solicit from attendees a description of their specific interests in order to discuss ways in which sound analysis might be useful.

 

We are attaching a poster announcing the Seminar, and would be grateful if it could be posted in your department. Please forward this invitation to your students, and to any colleagues that would be interested in this topic.

 

Sincerely,

 

Nina Fales and Dot Porter, SAVAIL

 

 

Best,

Maria Kennedy

Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH) Graduate Assistant
Indiana University - Bloomington
Wells Library E170

1320 E. 10th St.

Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
(812) 855-0829

IDAH Fax: (812) 856-7107

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