The xml file can be found here. You just need to modify the "item" data to correspond to your track(s). i.e. you just need to get to me by the 4th a short text snippet that starts with <item> and ends with </item> with your data in between and in appropriate tags. You can email me with that info in the body of an email or as a plain text file. Also, here's the Odeo site.
So there's a reading due (linked below) and the spatial audio work, both for Thursday. There will be no regularly scheduled class on Tuesday, as I will be in Madison. So... use the scheduled class time productively - read the Sound Art article, work on field recordings, edit. The audio exercises turned out great, so keep doing what you were doing. Some links of use: Platform's And While London Burns - an operatic audio tour of London's financial district. The sources for mixable and archival audio: CCMixter and the Internet Archive. And just in case... some Audacity tutorials.
Please bring some AA batteries (you will need 2-4) and a compact flash card or SD card (something over 512MB will do). I have a couple of compact flash cards for people who cannot get one by Tuesday, but not enough for everyone.
Tommy or Blake asked about the longest take in a film... and Marty (I think it was anyway) suggested Russian Ark, the single take (well, on the 4th try), 99 minute video by Alexander Sokurov set in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. I haven't seen this, but I will see if I can find a copy to screen. Another film that I always forget about in terms of long takes, and one I have seen, is Mike Figgis' Time Code, which clocks in at a close 97 minutes. But Time Code has the distinction of not only being done in one take, but produced in 4 simultaneous takes, presented simultaneously via a 4-split screen.
The reading is: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Observations on the Long Take (1967) (who is Pasolini?) Make a short post to your blog about this in preparation for our discussion. At 5:30, we'll watch a screening of Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up. We'll also talk more about the next project.
