POSSIBLE-SELVES

POSIBLE-SELVES
Sound Editing

Level: Summer ESL+M/ ESL low-intermediate to intermediate

Language Focus: Sound vocabulary +creative writing + future tense and subjunctive verbs (imagined actions)

Design Focus: Sound experience + sound recording/production+ digital mixing

Time: 6h. 20 min. (5h 55min. activities + 25 min. break/debrief)

Prep time: 4 hours

Lesson Description:

Starting with a warm-up exercise, the teacher introduces the qualities of sound, found sound, environmental sounds, and human perception. Students explore the idea of future selves—of imagined self and social identities—as a central concept for creative writing and to practice future tenses and subjunctive verbs. Outsourcing sounds—in combination with field recordings and foley sound production—students learn technical skills to capture quality sounds, e.g. field recorders, microphones, editing software. The teacher introduces technical sound vocabulary to guide students in self-assessing the quality of their collected sounds and to broaden their understanding of sound as it manifests in different spaces. Students produce their final project using a time-based sound editing software.

sound

sound/noun

vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person’s or animal’s ear.
“Light travels faster than sound”

Soundscape

“…a soundscape is defined as a space in which melodies, tunes, and riffs are received and interpreted by audiences, and in which the location of the listener shapes the interpretation of these sounds. The listener imbues the soundscape with individual meaning and relevance.”
Heiner Stahl, Berlin – Divided City, 1945-1989