Audio Workshop
Urban Horticultural Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
This workshop is sponsored by naturesound.org, the University of Washington and the Burke Museum. Focus of the workshop is on teaching state-of-the-art techniques for recording the sounds of wildlife. There will be daily field recording sessions and lecture discussion. Mark Oberle from the University of Washington, Curt Black of Bats NW, and Martyn Stewart of naturesound.org will be the instructors for this workshop. More information about registration and activities may be found at the following link:
http://naturesound.org/Audio_Workshop.html
New Season - begins May 5, 2008
Montclair Presbyterian Church
Close to Home offers monthly public lectures and subscription field trips to various locales in the Bay Area which focus on wildlife and ecology of these areas. For more information and the 2008 schedule, please go to the following link:
http://www.close-to-home.org/
Dan Dugan Sound Design
290 Napoleon Street Studio E
San Francisco, CA 94124
Learn the basics of recording technology in preparation for the annual May field workshop. This workshop provides an opportunity to try out different types of recording equipment and microphones. Dan Dugan will teach and host the event at his laboratory. $25 Members, $30 non-members. Contact dan@dandugan.com or call (415) 821-9776 for further information.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:30 PM-10 PM
Dan Dugan Sound Design
290 Napoleon Street Studio E
San Francisco, CA 94124
This is the third of a presentation series hosted by the Bay Area Sound Ecology (BASE) group, featuring works and words of noted sound designers. This one features James LeBrecht of Berkeley Sound Artists.
James LeBrecht - President/Lead-Designer
Award-winning sound designer James LeBrecht has supervised or edited
sound for feature films and documentary project that include The
Blood of Yingzhou District, Daughter from Danang, Battlefield Earth
and The Skulls.
In the exhibition world, LeBrecht has designed sound for the E3
conventions in Los Angeles, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the
Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas. Game credits include work for clients such
as EA, MAXIS, TECMO and Midway Studios-Austin.
LeBrecht has designed and produced sound effects and music for over
100 professional theatrical productions and co-authored the book
"Sound and Music for the Theatre: The Art and Technique of Design"
with Deena Kaye.
More information: e-mail blairbcollins@gmail.com
Audio Workshop
Urban Horticultural Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
This workshop is sponsored by naturesound.org, the University of Washington and the Burke Museum. Focus of the workshop is on teaching state-of-the-art techniques for recording the sounds of wildlife. There will be daily field recording sessions and lecture discussion. Mark Oberle from the University of Washington, Curt Black of Bats NW, and Martyn Stewart of naturesound.org will be the instructors for this workshop. More information about registration and activities may be found at the following link:
http://naturesound.org/Audio_Workshop.html
San Francisco State University Field Station, Yuba Pass California
The Nature Sounds Society (NSS) presents the Twenty-Fourth Annual Field Recording Workshop June 27-29 at San Francisco State University's Yuba Pass Field Station, in the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains. This year's theme is "Art and Nature".
Featured speakers include Lea Cox, MFA UC Santa Cruz, who recently made a career change from science to installation art that uses natural sound to educate; Hugh Livingston, composer who uses nature sounds in his installations; Steve Sergeant, Sierra Club activist and producer of Wildebeat, a podcast journal/radio show exploring various aspects of nature; Martyn Stewart, recordist and sound engineer who travels the world on various nature sound projects both scientific and esoteric; and Dan Dugan, sound engineer, on the latest technology in field recording. Workshop participants learn about nature sound recording and technical equipment during daily sessions in the field with experienced recordists. 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. The participants will also 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.
This year we have an exciting add-on feature to the workshop, thanks to Steve Sergeant and the Sierra Club: an overnight backpacking trip Sunday night June 29th-Monday June 30th to areas not impacted by vehicular traffic for an opportunity to record in a more natural surrounding. This trip will not only provide a more pristine recording environment but also provide participants with the opportunity to test and improve their field skills under the aegis of a both a master outdoorsman (Steve) and techhead (Dan), and is available to anyone with the physical skills for a moderate to moderately strenuous hike and in possession of recording rig.
The Nature Sounds Society is an organization dedicated to the recording and creative use of natural sounds.
Cost of the workshop is $185 for NSS members, $210 for non-members (includes one-year NSS membership).
For more information, the Nature Sounds Society at (415) 821-9776; on the web at www.naturesounds.org, or e-mail events@naturesounds.org
Workshop Registration Form (.doc)
Cost is $185 members, $210 non-members. Contact events@naturesounds.org or (510) 821-9776 for further information.