User:Jaw

Name: John Alston E-mail: zzzpft32@yahoo.com Website: sometimes I am at www.opensewer.com Major: Film/Video

Project 1
Heal knee - which requires doctor visit Monday, 9/12, which may conflict with class.

Beyond Language and text Often we hear language as language first, then as sound. This is a process where abstract knowledge - the association of sounds to meaning, which is nearly always arbitrary in language - takes precedence over sensory processing in primacy of mental function. Project To investigate this, looking both at heard language frustrated and sound that takes on meaning to a similar degree as to be immediately abstracted with meaning.

What experience do you have with sound software and what kind?
Some on pc - CoolEdit, Fruity Loops, a couple other little ones.

What experience do you have with programming and what kind?
little bit of html

What do you know and how interested are you in Free Culture, Open Source, and Programming?
Opensource seems like a very effective and workable method of development and I think it is cool.

What kind of experience with building speakers and external sound hardware do you have?
Zilch.

What type of installations / performances have you done?
I do film, but I really don't like installations of my stuff. I like sound installations.

Which aspects of audio interest you? (recording / performance / sound installations...)
Recording and mixing, sound installation, sound in relation to video

Do you play an instrument and what is the instrument(s)?
I used to play bass and I have been known to throat-sing.

What do you want to get out of this class?
ProTools Technical knowldge and art making experience.

Do you take another sound class this semester and what is its name?
nope, and it has no name.

What kind of music are you into? Art, pop, whatever...
Whatever! What does this mean, what "kind" ? I like good music. Who would like bad music? I like what I like.

What field trips would you like? (studio)
Sound studio

What is your secret weapon?
Eclectic knowledge and fighting profiency mask deep sensitivity.