At Sounding City Summer School, we work with sound from many different angles. This allows us to be more than just a place where you learn to produce and use various sound effects (even though we also do that). For us, working with sound is the realization that it is hard to capture, and even harder to mold. So the journey to understanding our work with sound departs from field studies to interviews, sensory-based approaches to qualitative knowledge, as sound mediates itself through different kinds of expressions and different kinds of media.
We start out by introducing different kinds of methodological points of departure for working with sound —this being sensory approaches, field recording, attuning to the world, or ear cleaning, and many more, all valid ways of working with sound. This is followed by various listening expeditions, where we go out into the world armed with a microphone. Coming home from our expeditions, we listen closely and find the interesting features, the small nuances that allow us to portray a place or a story.
Taking sound from the real world into the studio is a complicated challenge, but through shared effort and knowledge we try to mold and form the sound waves, giving them new meanings and new understandings.
We keep in mind that not everyone knows how to work with sound by offering crash courses in production, focusing on the different levels of each student. This means that if you are new to sound, we will guide you and give you introductions, and for the more skilled there is time for complete nerding sessions where we argue over frequency and equalization.
The end station of our sonic work is an auditive production between 4 and 6 minutes, showcasing your work and how you emphasize your sonic story.
Sounding City Summer School is offered in collaboration between:
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