Thanks for your response Ari! Sorry I didn't elaborate on the information request. The exhibition is a musical sound installation, and so what Heide (the Coordinator) would like to do, I think, is be able to have families go into another area of the museum to record their own "music" on individual tracks, blend them, and then have a CD immediately produced for them to take home. And of course we only have a Mac laptop, their bundled software, a microphone, and some duct tape.
~Perian -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ari Davidow Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 11:27 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] FW: Creative/Technical advice needed! As described, the request doesn't make complete sense. There is nothing about general audio recording, digital or not, that creates "tracks". In theory, one could record in stereo, but in practice, almost nobody does (barring the use of stereo mikes in concert recordings, some interview settings). Similarly, there is nothing about how many "tracks" were used that aids or hinders putting the recording on a CD ROM. Potentially, the artist is looking for a way to mix family audio recordings together (music, plus oral history bits, plus whatever?), and then you are looking at something that involves more than most exhibits (and would risk getting people lost in learning to mix sound, rather than the exhibit, itself--unless it is about mixing sound). More likely, the artist is looking for a way that people could have recorded audio at home digitally that they could bring to the museum on a usb drive, ipod, or other digital device, copy to a machine at the exhibit, and then write a CD which incorporates material from the exhibit?? So, it isn't clear what is needed by the artist, or if he or she is clear on what they are trying to do or how the Mac (or other computer) in the exhibit fits in with this. But, all of the things I just touched on =could= be done using a Mac or PC or Linux box--whichever is most convenient. Someone who did some similar work at the Magnes, er, back 10-15 years ago ("We Make Memories" or some such), and may be a good advisor on technical issues now is Abbe Don. She tends to be over-involved and over-worked, but she's an artist, herself, and local, if that helps. (I have contact info if you don't.) Hope this helps, ari On Nov 19, 2007 2:04 PM, Perian Sully <psully at magnes.org> wrote: > Hi fellow MCN-ers! > > Since audio stuff is way outside the scope of my expertise, I'm > wondering if anyone has any advice I could forward to our School, > Teacher, and Family Programs Coordinator. The exhibition she's > referring to runs through July 6th, 2008. We have a Mac laptop we use > for audio recording sometimes, but I don't know how to get it to do > what she would like it to do, or if it's possible. I don't want to > send her a "sorry, we can't do it" if I can avoid it, but I'm kinda > stumped about alternate solutions. > > Anyone have any suggestions or ideas? > > Thanks in advance! > > Perian Sully > Collection Database & Records Administrator Judah L. Magnes Museum > 2911 Russell St. > Berkeley, CA 94705 > 510-549-6950 x 335 > http://www.magnes.org <http://www.magnes.org/> Contributor, > http://www.musematic.org <http://www.musematic.org/> > > > ________________________________ > > > > I am a bit stymied about how to proceed with my thoughts about Yadegari: > > I would like the families to listen carefully in Revisions to the > blending and layering of sounds and music. Then I would like them to > go to the library and SOMEHOW create an audio version of family > created music, sounds, etc. This of course could be as simple as > recording onto a tape, but what I'd really like is to find a way for > the families to record separate "tracks"-digitally-that would be > "layered" and so that their creation could be burned on a cd and then taken home. > > Is this at all feasible? > > I know music can be created through Garage Band on the mac, but how > about the recording of voices, bells, chimes, etc-blended with Garage > Band sounds?
