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Session Details
 Sound Recording with Wire Coils
with Peter Courtemanche
Simple hand-made wire coils can be used to record a variety of strange sounds. They pick-up the radiation from electronic devices (lights, broadcast equipment, ionizers, cell-phones, etc.). During the workshop you can make your own coils, try them out, and listen to recordings of various magnetic phenomena.
Building a micro-transmitter
with Tetsuo Kogawa
(Part 1 on May 31st and Part 2 on June 1st)
My simplest model of FM transmitter has been used often for small experiments in order for a beginner to experience what transmission is like and sometimes to supplement an artist's installation. This time, I would like to experiment my new simplest model to build and then to use it for a transmission that can stably cover a small radius. The participant will learn how to build the transmitter and use it effectively and creatively.
How to Pitch
with Jared Weissbort from SOUNDPRINT (Saturday)
with Neil Sandell from OUTFRONT
on CBC Radio One (Sunday)
This session will cover how to successfully pitch your radio works to acquirers of independent work. The elements of a strong story pitch will be explained and other strategies will be offered for getting your work heard.
Making Rain
with Chris Brookes
The poet Paul Valery once said: "The job of the poet is not to tell you that it is raining; the job of the poet is to make rain." It is pretty straightforward to tell the listener that it is raining, how hard and how often, to measure the amount of rainfall and compare it to the seasonal average, and this may be interesting --- especially to someone who someone without an umbrella. Radio documentaries are often made like this and they can be informative and particularly useful when the weather is threatening. Making rain may be a different process, to try to evoke the truth between the listeners ears. The items of information less important than the relationships between them. This is where dramaturgy comes in, that and a large element of luck and personal investment in the truth of the story. Excerpts from some radio features will be played to see if we can open up some thinking about rain-making in storytelling. That along with some diagrams and Chris waving his arms about a lot - of course you will have to bring an umbrella just in case it works.
Integrating Text and Sound
with Andreas Kahre
Sound + Design does not always equal sound design. It is only when sound and words become equal partners that a work can be shaped to create an provocative experience for the audience. Andreas Kahre will discuss different approaches to integrating text and sound in order to structure the content of works created for radio and for works that use radio in performance.
Listening comes first... then recording
with Darren Copeland
One of the dangers of field recording is that there is a temptation only to listen to the sonic environment when recording it. The sonic environment is with us 24/7 and influences some of our everyday life decisions, not to mention the instinctive creative decisions we make when making a radio production. In fact, the acute listening you do when working on your radio productions should not stop when you lock the studio door for the night. The first part of this workshop will keep your recorder tucked safely in your bag and will stretch the instrument you were born with - your ears - through listening exercises. When the recorders do come out it will be to approach the sonic environment with a wide-ranging perspective, from individual voices within the sonic environment to a more global perspective. Approaches to combining these range of recordings into a single cohesive radio work will be demonstrated at the conclusion of the workshop. Please dress appropriately for the weather as we will be going outside. If you have recording equipment, then bring it along. If you do not, then let us know as there are a limited number of recording units available.
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