Announcements and Events
NSS events are planned so people of like interests can explore new venues, exchange information, and meet other sound recordists. Each event offers members the opportunity to hone a different set of skills by exploring a variety of skills, sites and recording situations. We welcome and encourage suggestions from our members regarding new areas of interest to explore and exciting recording locations to visit, experiences with new equipment, and how sound recordings are being used. For your convenience we may also list selected events presented by other organizations.
Friday, January 27 - California Soundscapes Presentation and Field Trip - Chico Snow Goose Festival
$25 Adult ; $8 Youth
10:00 am - 2:30 pm
Meet at Bidwell Mansion Visitor Center
Take a tour of California's fascinating soundscapes. In the workshop at the CHICO MUSEUM, we'll enjoy a selection of surround-sound recordings from California's parks and wildlife preserves, discuss what nature recording equipment is used, and practice ear training. Then out we go to the field to "test drive" different sound recording equipment, learn special recording techniques, and find out why it's important what you wear and eat in the field. With these bionic ears, participants can practice identifying distant bird calls.
Due to metered parking and logistics, please park in the Bidwell Mansion parking lot. Your presenter will meet you there for the short walk to the Chico Museum. Hot coffee and morning munchies will await you.
Field Trip Leaders: Greg Weddig and Dan Dugan and Sharon Perry
Registration: http://www.snowgoosefestival.org/events/field_trips_27.php#416
Friday, February 3—Sunday, February 5 - Post Production Workshop - San Francisco
Now that you've made some great recordings, what do you do next? Learn how to edit, filter, and produce CDs or MP3s of your recordings. A finished recording makes a great gift. You can use them in art installations or presentations, or just have a library of your own sounds to enjoy.
Rob Danielson, Associate Professor of Film, Video & Sound, University of Wisconsin, and sound designer Dan Dugan will lead this hands-on seminar.
The post workshop is an opportunity for participants to learn how to use digital audio workstation software. The workshop is open to both amateurs and professionals. Meals will be provided. Participants are asked to bring their own laptops and headphones and to install software provided as part of the workshop fee. A couple of computers will be available for use by registrants who don't have their own laptops.
The cost, including software and meals, is $229 for NSS members, $249 for non-members (includes one-year NSS membership). For the registration form click here.
Contact dan@dandugan.com or call (415) 821-9776 for further information.
April 27-29, 2012 - California Soundscapes Presentation - Pt. Reyes Birding Festival
Details to be announced mid-February
For infomation see: http://www.pointreyesbirdingfestival.org/site/?page_id=974
Saturday, May 12, 2012 - NSS Tech Talk - San Francisco
9:30 AM-3:30 PM
Dan Dugan Sound Design
290 Napoleon St., Studio E
San Francisco, CA 94124
Learn the basics of recording technology in preparation for the annual June field workshop. In this workshop, Dan Dugan will discuss the range of equipment that can be used in sound recording, and participants will be able to put their hands on and use recording equipment and microphones. You'll also get a peek at a working sound laboratory and how sounds can be used after they've been recorded. $25 Members, $30 non-members.
Contact events@naturesounds.org or call (415) 821-9776 for further information.
June 29-July 1, 2012 - NSS 28th Annual Field Recording Workshop - Yuba Pass
The Nature Sounds Society (NSS) presents the Twenty-Eighth Annual Field Workshop June 29-July 1, 2012 at San Francisco State University's Yuba Pass Field Station, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Each year, this workshop brings together dynamic speakers and trip leaders with participants interested in learning various aspects of nature sound recording and the use of nature sounds in art, science, and music.
Multiple field and hands-on workshop sessions (including our popular make-your-own windscreen session) will occur by day; evening lecture sessions will cover topics in biology, including a discussion of the environments in which we will be recording, recording techniques, natural quiet and soundscape measurement. Participants will learn about equipment and microphone handling techniques as well as being introduced to the current work being done by the National Park Service for the preservation of natural soundscapes. The workshop is open to both amateurs and professionals, and families are welcome. Accommodations are in comfortable tent cabins in a beautiful setting beside the Yuba River.
Costs: Early bird registration received before 6/1/2012 $224 members, $249 non-members; after 6/1 $249 members and $269 non-members. Registration forms may be found here
Contact the Nature Sounds Society at (415) 821-9776 for more details and registration information; e-mail dan@dandugan.com or naturesounds@naturesounds.org
Check this page occasionally for more current information as it becomes available for these events. Alternatively, call Dan Dugan (415) 821-9776.
Join the Nature Sounds Society Listserve at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nature_sounds_society to talk to and learn from members and associates.
Events of interest by other organizations
June 16-23, 2012 - Cornell Sound Recording Workshop - Yuba Pass
Learn state-of-the-art techniques for recording the sounds of wildlife with experts from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library. Topics to be covered include the selection and application of audio recorders and microphones, recording theory, metering, recording techniques, and documentation for sound recordings. The course includes daily field recording sessions and lectures/discussions. Unique to this course is the use of microcomputer-based software to analyze the recordings and to investigate microphone and recorder performance. $985.00
Contact: Kelly Smith 607-254-6323 kls66@cornell.edu
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