John Roach

Zoom H1 recorder tutorial

Here's a good tutorial on using the Zoom H1 recorder. A few things to keep in mind: Try to always…

Posted on: March 5, 2014
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Radio – One Man’s Quest To Find The ‘Sonic Wonders Of The World’ (Fresh Air)

Ever wonder why your voice sounds so much better when you sing in the shower? It has to do with…

Posted on: March 3, 2014
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Adobe Premiere – Working with Images

Here’s a handout for adding and manipulating images in the Premiere timeline.
It includes adding dissolves, changing scale, etc.

Posted on: March 3, 2014
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Anton Bruhin – In/Out

Here's a good example of an editing style that is determined to some degree my the mechanisms of editing. In…

Posted on: March 3, 2014
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Steve Reich – Come Out

Come Out is a 1966 piece by American composer Steve Reich. He was asked to write this piece to be…

Posted on: March 3, 2014
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Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers

Six drummers participate in a well planned musical attack in the suburbs. As an elderly couple leave their apartment the…

Posted on: March 2, 2014
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Noise by Kijek/Adamski

"Film inspired by the theoretic work of George Berkeley and basics of synesthetic perception. It's a game of imagination provoked…

Posted on: March 2, 2014
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Adobe Premiere – Sound Editing Basics

Here's a handout that I developed to cover the basics of manipulating sound in Adobe Premiere. premiere and sound (PDF)

Posted on: February 26, 2014
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CampusPress and WordPress – Embedding a sound file from Soundcloud

There are many types of media that can be embedded into a Wordpress post: youtube, vimeo, soundcloud, etc. Here's how…

Posted on: February 26, 2014
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Pierre Henry – Variations for a door and a sigh (1963)

from a post on the WFMU's Beware of the Blog Listening this morning to "Variations pour Une Porte et Un…

Posted on: February 26, 2014
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Using WordPress (CampusPress)

This class blog is created through CampusPress. This is basically Wordpress which is a blogging platform, but it is run…

Posted on: February 16, 2014
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Putting a book online – Issuu

There are two popular services for hosting PDFs online where they can be viewed and flipped through easily. One is…

Posted on: February 16, 2014
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Using photos responsibly – Licenses and restrictions

Some of you have asked about using images sourced from the internet. As an artist and designer and creator of…

Posted on: February 15, 2014
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Tools – Folding Techniques

How to make an 8-page booklet out of a single piece of paper Cut and Fold Techniques for Promotional Materials:…

Posted on: February 15, 2014
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Sniffing the Time

Over the course of history, a number of mechanisms have been devised to measure the passage of time. Intricately positioned…

Posted on: February 13, 2014
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Tools and Supplies – Mounting

Here is the mounting material we talked about in class. You can use this material to mount your prints rather…

Posted on: February 13, 2014
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InDesign – Adding cropmarks to an object. Great for book-making

There are times when you need to add marks to a layout so you can trim the elements, but you…

Posted on: February 12, 2014
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Blending modes in InDesign

So what ARE all of those blending modes in InDesign? Here's the Adobe Help page on the modes and their…

Posted on: February 10, 2014
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The Decisive Moment – Henri Cartier Bresson

"I prowled the streets all day, feeling very strung-up and ready to pounce, determined to “trap” life—to preserve life in…

Posted on: February 10, 2014
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5-Card nancy

from Scott McCloud Five Card Nancy is a Dada card game using cut-up panels from Ernie Bushmiller's long-running 20th Century…

Posted on: February 9, 2014
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