Saturday May 12, 2007
10am to 2pm
Dan Dugan Sound Design
290 Napoleon Street Studio E
San Francisco, CA 94124
Do you want to get out in the field to record but are still trying to make a decision about your recording equipment needs? Learn what kind of sound recording technology will work best for you for field recording and/or in preparation for the annual Nature Sounds Society June 2007 field workshop. Noted sound engineer and designer Dan Dugan will provide a basics of sound and sound recording. Dan will also host a live mike laboratory to provide participants with an opportunity to hands-on sample different types of recording equipment and microphones and demonstrate post-production software and techniques. A discussion of basic equipment for natural quiet monitoring and logging protocol will also be offered for those interested in developing those techniques. $25 Members, $30 non-members. The event will be held in sound designer Dan Dugan's sound laboratory. Contact events@naturesounds.org dan@dandugan.com or (510) 238-7482/(415) 821-9776 for further information.
Saturday May 12, 2007
10am to 2pm
Dan Dugan Sound Design
290 Napoleon Street Studio E
San Francisco, CA 94124
Do you want to get out in the field to record but are still trying to make a decision about your recording equipment needs? Learn what kind of sound recording technology will work best for you for field recording and/or in preparation for the annual Nature Sounds Society June 2007 field workshop. Noted sound engineer and designer Dan Dugan will provide a basics of sound and sound recording. Dan will also host a live mike laboratory to provide participants with an opportunity to hands-on sample different types of recording equipment and microphones and demonstrate post-production software and techniques. A discussion of basic equipment for natural quiet monitoring and logging protocol will also be offered for those interested in developing those techniques. $25 Members, $30 non-members. The event will be held in sound designer Dan Dugan's sound laboratory. Contact events@naturesounds.org dan@dandugan.com or (510) 238-7482/(415) 821-9776 for further information.
The Nature Sounds Society (NSS) and the California Library of Natural Sounds of the Oakland Museum of California (CLNS) present the Twenty-third Annual Field Workshop June 22-24, 2007 at San Francisco State University's Yuba Pass Field Station, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This year's theme is "Nature Sounds: Human Impacts."
Featured speakers include Dr. Bernie Krause of Wild Sanctuary, eminent bioacoustician award-winning recordist and musician and Martyn Stewart, naturalist, sound engineer and recordist who will discuss their 2006 field trip to the Arctic slope to collect baseline ambient recording to use natural sound as a method to determine change over time. Jim Steele, ornithologist and director of the Yuba Pass Field Station will lead a field session on birding-by-ear. Dan Dugan, sound designer and engineer, will lead a microphone directivity session and provide technical assistance in the field. 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.
The Nature Sounds Society is an organization dedicated to the recording and creative use of natural sounds. The California Library of Natural Sounds is a resource center and a regional collection of recordings of California and the Pacific Northwest. It is a program of the Natural Sciences Department of the Oakland Museum of California.
Cost of the workshop is $185 for NSS members, $210 for non-members (includes one-year NSS membership).
For more information, contact the Oakland Museum of California's Library of Natural Sounds at 510/238-7482 or the Nature Sounds Society at www.naturesounds.org or e-mail events@naturesounds.org