Tomorrow is field recording techniques, plus strategies for installing sound works. We'll introduce the concept of the 'Audio Log', which isn't as heavy as it sounds, and is in fact created using (guilty secret and poisonous waster of hours/nerves) Microsoft Excel. We'll be tackling the sometimes tricky issue of representing what is audible on paper, which is best explained after dinner; building microphones, atmospheric subtleties, avoiding digital effects and - my favorite - tape looping.
As always, these things are best negotiated in context, and by that really i mean one-to-one. In general terms (as all these sessions must be in advance of an eighth day) it can result in lots of barely disguised confusion. Then they're thrown in the deep end with some high end and low end equipment and mostly end up getting the correct end of whichever stick we have been reaching forth with.
And Friday is darkroom day, which, after the highly acclaimed 'Watching Paint Dry' (I'm not kidding) session, should be a fairly relaxed and anally risk assessed affair.
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