As part of Undivided Productions, I have been teaching a course at Bayard Rustin High School for The Humanities in Manhattan, a public highschool located in Chelsea. This is my second year as the teaching artist for Eyebeam Atelier’s New Media Collaborative. The students this year are learning sound and urban topography, mapping their local neighborhoods and producing sound scapes (Schafer) that will eventually be made public as walking tours.
Along the way, students learn to make binaural microphones, their own radio transmitters, edit and mix audio in protools as well as podcasting, CD duplication and production.
The students are excellent this year, as they were in last year’s NMC; enthusiastic and driven, and are already showing great promise.
Last week we looked at the Naked City maps of Debord (and practiced our frenchy pronounciation). Who knows, perhaps we will go on a collective derive soon.
