INTG 532T Location Recording
This course introduces location recording techniques, site-responsive composition/narrative, noise measurement, and interactive, geolocation-based auto-playback methods (geofencing, a form of immersive augmented reality). In contrast to studio recording, location recording can often involve both fixed perspective recording and movement as is often found in the Film/Television/Radio industries. Specialized recording techniques including highly directional (shotgun and parabolic dishes used in sports and wildlife recording), spatial recording (binaural/ambisonic), electromagnetic (inductor coils revealing normally inaudible ‘fields’), surface (contact piezo discs), and even underwater (hydrophones) provide unique means of capturing the sound of a locale. This course will introduce students to these techniques, as well as more traditional field recording techniques and an investigation of the practice of acoustic ecology, in a hands-on setting.