Media Link Mart: January 2006

Disclaimer

Classic 1016 photos by RT Alum Austin Grammer

June 2006 Update: My intercession course is nearly over. The labs are fairly empty right now, but the students are coming back - soon - for summer session, and then fall. And when they come, we all get busy - and sometimes links go bad. There's always one bad link -

The 2006 summer syllabus for Sound Art & Practice is up. Cool links, I know because I found them. The fall version will be longer. Also check out a weird summer project called "Tesla" in which we imagine that the future happened more than one hundred years ago (something like that). Go to http://transonicmission.blogspot.com. Then link to http://tesla451.blogspot.com.

I hope you enjoy Link Mart, and find it useful. It is basically designed to help my students - undergrad and graduate - but others are free to wander around. Again, sorry if some of these links lead you to a dead end. You know, that's life. And if it is philosophy you want, go to soundthinking by Saluki alum Tim Miles. Otherwise, this site is all about the links, man. All about the links.

Blue Light Special

Attention Shoppers. Today's bluelight special is your link to....

Sound Feelings (www.soundfeelings.com)

Check out music medicine.

You won't need a massage, just some speakers.

Copyright Law

It's the law...
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright

Oral & Aural History

What is Oral History?
www.elon.edu/festle/oralhistory.htm
How to do History?
www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html#LINKS

More - What is Oral History? Early days of Oral History
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/oralhist/ohfwp.html
(Listen to stories)
http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/001005.oralhistory.html

Narrative Psychology http://web.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/nr-basic.html
Who are we? What does psychology understand by the notion of "self"? What is the nature of our identity? These are questions originally posed by philosophy, but now stand as prime issues within psychology. Narrative approaches to the study of identity and self focus upon questions such as

Do individuals comprise one or more selves?
Under what circumstances do people change?
How do people come to self-knowledge? Can we, in fact, know who we are?
To what extend do people adapt their personal stories to conform to culturally-derived types of personality?
How is culture integrated into or constitutive of an individual's self?
In constructing an autobiography, does an individual conceal more than she or he reveals?
How accurate are memories of childhood? of family?

Intro to Interviewiewing: www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/IGSD/IQPHbook/ch11c.html
In-depth Interviewing: www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/000001172.htm Interviewing Chapter: www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-874204-5chap15.pdf
Radio Diaries: www.radiodiaries.org
How to Record: www.soundportraits.org/education/how_to_record/
Telephone Interviews/Quality: www.radiocollege.org/rc/couplers.html
Interviewing Protocol: www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ardelt/Aging/QualInt.htm

Listen/Read:
Diversity Exercise: www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/6.0/html/oralhistory.html
Studs Terkel - The Man Who Interview America
http://www.studsterkel.org/ghits.php
www.grandtimes.com/studs.html
http://www.chicagohs.org/collections/film.html#studs
(Terkel) http://talk.transom.org/WebX?14@231.hsa5amcwabb^4@.ee80e21/0

Sound Archives
soundprint.org (see Producer's guidelines)
www.americanradioworks.org (Topics)
soundportraits.org/education (Listen to Ghetto Life)
talkinghistory.org
Jonestown: www.npr.org/programs/specials/jonestown.html
Producer Profile:
www.albany.edu/faculty/gz580/documentaryproduction/authoring_in_sound.html

FREE Radio

Build a radio station...
http://www.prometheusradio.org

Satellite Connections

Orbit Satellite Television and Radio Network - Over 30 fully digital encrypted television/radio channels broadcast by satellite to Middle East & N. Africa
www.orbit.net

XM Satellite Radio www.xmradio.com

Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation - keeps a vigilant eye on current events in regulatory bodies, and when appropriate contributes in cooperation with other amateur radio groups.
www.amsat.org

Sirius Satellite Radio - digital satellite system delivering radio programming directly to your vehicle.
www.siriusradio.com

American Indian Radio on Satellite (AIROS) - offers native programming to Tribal communities and to general audiences.
www.airos.org

Christian Hit Radio Satellite Network - designed to reach radio listeners with contemporary music for Jesus Christ.
www.chrsn.com

World Radio Network - broadcasts international news and feature programming from public radio stations in over 20 countries around the world via satellite, cable and the internet
www.wrn.org

Radio Times - offers television, satellite and radio listings for the UK, BBC
www.radiotimes.co.uk

All About Commercial Radio (mostly)

History of Production Music
http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/prodMusHistory.html
Superbowl TV Ads http://www.superbowl-ads.com/
http://www.superbowl-ads.com/articles_2003/qtlist2003.html
Radio Glossary – Down to Earth Radio Lingo
http://www.udel.edu/nero/Radio (see glossary and more)

Programming/Format Links
Radio Times http://www.radiotimes.beeb.com/
Radio and Records www.radioandrecords.com
Billboard http://www.billboard.com/bb/index.jsp

Radio and Audio Production Mag/Jobs: http://www.rapmag.com/classif.html
Jingles www.jinglebiz.com/
Classic Station Promos – The Practice
http://www.ohms.com/golden.htm

Voice and Personality: http://www.radiojock.com/jocks.html
http://www.voiceoverdemos.com/voice/faq.htm
Dan O'Day's articles and advice at www.danoday.com

Various topical programming links:
-Michael Keith/Author www.michaelckeith.com/links.htm

Scott Studios http://www.scott-studios.com

JINGLES/PRODUCTION MUSIC BEDS/EFFECTS

GMI Meda
http://www.gmimedia.com

Neon Sound Productions: (Creative commercials,
production music beds and jingles for radio, etc.)
www.neonsound.com

Chameleon Communications (voiceovers, jingles, film scoring)
www.cham.com

John Driscoll - Imaging
http://www.johndriscoll.com

Empire Sound Imaging
http://www.empiresound.com

Mark Roberts - Commerical V/O
http://markroberts.tv

Sound Ideas
http://www.sound-ideas.com

Road Records: Protools Studio and Links
www.roadrecords.com

Sound in Cinema

Skywalker Sound www.skysound.com
Dolby Home: www.dolby.com (knowledgebase)
Radio Times/Film http://www.radiotimes.beeb.com/film/
Film Sound The Basics: http://www.filmsound.org
Film Sound Theory: http://hem.passagen.se/filmljud/filmsound.htm
Foley: http://www.marblehead.net/foley
www.filmtracks.com/audio/ (Lots of Audio Clips)
www.film.com/topten/movies
Just for fun: Movie Mistakes
Have some fun -- click around this site . It is a catalogue of mistakes that
moviemakers make while piecing together films. For example, in the film "Titanic,"
one of the people jumping aboard a lifeboat is wearing a digital watch. In "Top Gun,"
on the last flight that Maverick takes, there's a line that goes: "He's on your left
at three o'clock." Three o'clock is on the right.

Audio and Modern Sound Theatrics

Point of Listening in radio plays:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sdfva/sound-journal/beck981.html

Resources
http://www.audiotheater.com/
http://www.greatnorthernaudio.com/rt_news.html
http://www.irdp.co.uk/
http://www.virtuallyamerican.com/menu.asp

The Night America Panicked
http://ubelhor.home.mindspring.com/pulsar/issue18/panicked.html
George Orson Welles, War of the Worlds, (October 30, 1938) "We
know now that in the early years of the twentieth century, this world was being
watched closely by intelligences greater than man's..." (51:17.4)
War of the Worlds [H.G. Wells] - Available free on-line
www.literaturepage.com/read/waroftheworlds.html

International Radio Drama -
Social, Economic and Literary Contexts by Tim Crook
http://www.irdp.co.uk/radiodrama.htm
Transmissions: On But Unwanted
http://www.rumble.org/trans/trans5.htm

Sound Effect Helper
Listening to Radio Plays: Fictional Soundscapes
http://interact.uoregon.edu/medialit/wfae/readings/listentoradio.html
How to
http://www.audiotheater.com/SFXhowto.html
Sound Effects: Art of Noise
http://www.ruyasonic.com/sfx_closet.htm
Sound Creation
http://www.filmsound.org/sci-fi

Sound Narratives, Storytelling, Documentary

Walden's Pond [David Thoreau, Chapter 2: Sound]
Available free on-line: www.literaturepage.com/read/walden-85.html

The Personal Narrative - Listen: www.radiodiaries.org/

Producing Historical Documentaries: http://www.albany.edu/faculty/gz580/documentaryproduction/
Check out www.transom.org (they accept documentaries!)

Third Coast Festival at http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org

Willie Young Rabbit Hunter - 1:37
http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/rabbit_hunter

Reggie Jones, Lifeguard - 3:45
http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/lifeguard

Woolworth's Lunch-Counter Waitress - 4:58
http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/lunch-counter_waitress

Street Dogs - 12:06
http://www.transom.org/shows/2001/200108.shows.streetdogs. perrywarga.htm

French Manicure -21:16
http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/000428.stories.html

Acoustic Ecology and Fuzzy Thoughts

What is Acoustic Ecology...
Handbook for Acoustic Ecology [Barry Traux]
http://www2.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/handbook/
Music and Soundwaves http://www.silcom.com/~aludwig/musicand.htm
Hearing is believing: www.kent.ac.uk/sdfva/sound-journal/thorn981.html
Sounds that Soothe: www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/02.07/16-mihnuet.html
Audio Perception and Sound: http://www.kent.ac.uk/sdfva/sound-journal/forrester001.html
Sound Perception http://interact.uoregon.edu/medialit/mlr/readings/articles/sndesign.html
Acoustics & Noise: Engineering Principles http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/27.html

Browse:
www.earthear.com (Check out)
www.loe.org (Living On Earth)
www.bigfootsounds.com/ (right?!)
www.hearingvoices.com/allison.html (Good!)
www.humanmedia.org/humankind_essay.htm
Environmental Sounds and Processes (history/context)
www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/resources/soundscapes/ENVIRONS.HTM
References: http://www.upsaid.com/proquet/extra.php

Recommendations - Your Sound Environment

Earth Ear
Read Earth Ear (Acoustic Activism/Urban Soundscape;
also Check out Artist Profiles - Douglas Quin)
www.earthear.com

Listen to Earth Ear (includes Antarctica 2000 Sound)
www.earthear.com/catalog/sample.html

Archives/Sound Libraries
The American Folklife Center
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cmnshtml/cmnshome.html
Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds (MLNS)
http://birds.cornell.edu/lns
Sounds from the Vault
www.fmnh.org/sounds/index.htm
ABC Archives and Library/Wildsound
http://abc.net.au/archives/av/wildsnd.htm
CD Collections
www.binaural.com/bines.html

Acoustic Ecology in the Classroom/Field
READ: EcoAcoustics Introduction and sub-links
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/studies/index.html

Some legends and leaders....

Hildegard Westerkamp: www.sfu.ca/~westerka/bio.html

John Cage
http://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/cage_j.html

Pauline Oliveros
http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/intervs/oliveros.html
http://ssl.adhost.com/jazzloft/baskets/pos.cfm?CD=4043

FYI: See Psychoacoustics/History of Computer Music in Music Technology Links (Stanford) http://www.lgu.ac.uk/mit/links.html

Electronic Readings, Journals, Associations

Journal of Acoustic Ecology: http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/journal/
Computer Music Journal: http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Computer-Music-Journal/
Mix OnLine http://www.mixonline.com/
EQ http://www.eqmag.com/
Pro Audio Review http://www.proaudioreview.com/
Radio World http://www.radioworld.com/
Acoustical Society of America: http://asa.aip.org/ (society info/listen to sounds)
Audio Engineering Society: http://www.aes.org/
Institute of Acoustics: http://www.ioa.org.uk/

Orgins of Recording Technology
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/notes.html#speeds
Death of Radio: An Essay in Radio Philosophy
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sdfva/rp/index.html
Sound Journal: http://www.kent.ac.uk/sdfva/sound-journal/ESJsubmission.html

Technical Assistance - Please!

The Physics Classroom
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/sound/U11L1a.htmlhttp://members.aol.com/nicholashl/waves/circularwaves.html

Protools On-Line Handbook
http://myweb.lmu.edu/rpardee/PT/START/table_of_contents.htm
Software options:
Protools http://www.protools.com/
Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audio Station (http://www.audiotstation.com)
Home Recording/Setting Up Studio
http://homerecording.com/
Microphones http://www.shure.com/

Saving Projects - MP3
www.shure.com/support/technotes/app-mp3.html
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright (US Copyright Office)
Digital Domain http://www.digido.com/
-Depth & Dimension
-We have Lift Off
-Compression, Level Practices
-Dither, Jitter, More Bits Please-Source Quality Rule
Midi Tutorial http://www.borg.com/~jglatt
Signal to Noise http://s2n.org

MiniDisc – DAT - Field Recorders/Mics (lots of opinions)

http://soundportraits.org/education/how_to_record
http://www.youngmonkey.ca/nose/articles/CU-Amiga_9809/SoundLab.html
http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/res_audioequip.htm#xi
http://www.transom.org/tools/recording_interviewing/200503.pmd660.html
http://www.bedfordtechnical.com/GeneSupport/HTML/ElecEng.htm
http://www.minidisco.com/mz-m100.html

Educational Resource
www.lentine.com/articles/an_overview_of_digital_recording.htm

Mission Possible: Link Mart

I began to collect links for about a decade, and it seemed only fitting that they deserved their own blog. This blog is all about making connections and networking. LOL. Hope you find what you are looking for......sometimes it gets a bit messy in Link Mart.

Phylis Johnson

Media Link Mart

Saturday, January 14, 2006