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Soundscape
radio workshop
Copyright : Adaptation de l'atelier de RFI
Objectives
Objectives:Develop students’ critical listening skills by analyzing and creating soundscapes as media texts.Foster media literacy by exploring how sound influences perception, emotion, and storytelling.Encourage collaborative creation and responsible use of digital audio tools to produce original content.
Project
Analyze sounds
Create your own soundscape
Sound parameters
A sound can be described using several parameters. Can you think of any examples?
Sound parameters
Listen and learn how to distinguish and classify sounds.
Sound parameters
Listen and learn how to distinguish and classify sounds.
Sound parameters
Listen and learn how to distinguish and classify sounds.
Sound parameters
Listen and learn how to distinguish and classify sounds.
Sound parameters
Listen and learn how to distinguish and classify sounds.
There is no such thing as silence: we are constantly surrounded by sound* (even in a silent place). The Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer talks about ‘soundscapes’ that can be listened to as music.
Bruce Davis & Peter Huse recording at SFU, ca. 1972.
Schafer R.M. The Tuning of the World. Knopf, New York, 1977
Soundscapes
Ecouter le monde Les voix de Madrid RFI
Nature Sound Scapes
Lisboa Orchestra https://youtu.be/TgZd4srTruo?si=zGtiRlPejVyHI7ap
Soundscape of New-York City
Soundscapes
Listening is subjective: two people in the same place will not necessarily hear the same thing.The soundscape is an invitation to listen for pleasure, to travel through sounds and voices.
Soundscapes
Écouter le monde (Listening to the world) Weekly on RFI and available online at RFI.fr. Monica Fantini collects soundscapes and testimonies from all over the world. She chooses, cuts and assembles the different elements to create her 2.5-minute soundscape. The editing can be simple - a collage of soundscapes - or complex - different voices, soundscapes, music. In all cases, there is a story: we say that editing is radio writing.
Ecouter le monde Traversée sonore - Le marché de Pinheiros à São Paulo RFI
Listening
Your turn! Close your eyes What sounds do you hear around you now?
Volume: Which sounds are loud/quiet?Pitch: Which sounds are low/high?Are the sounds continuous / punctual / repetitive? Static or moving?Are they natural / human / technological?Distance: Which sounds are near / far?
Soundscapes
Time to make your own soundscape! 1) record sounds in the school 2) edit with Audacity to create a soundscape
Record
Record
Record
Make sure your recordings are technically clean!
Record
Make sure your recordings are technically clean!