Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin Volumes of Voices is an interactive sound installation and site-specific soundwalk that explores the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building and its collections. This presentation discusses the soundwalk concept, path, and technical strategy. Concept proposal presented … Read More →
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Volumes of Voices ~ mobile app demo (Android)
Write Once, Access Anywhere Professor Corey Menscher Assignment Build a mobile application using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. Homepage player demo. ~ Wireframes presented May 5, 2011 at ITP
Volumes of Voices ~ Sound Experiments
Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin I began this week to work with my collaborator, composer Christopher Carlson, a graduate student at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, to develop the soundwalk’s first layer, a narrative tour … Read More →
Reflections on Collective Storytelling ~ Audioboo Exquisite Corpse
Collective Storytelling Professor Marianne Petit Concept I began with a simple concept: collaborate with friends to create an audio-based exquisite corpse, a kind of found poem, using our favorite quotes. Assigned to respond to Joshua Harris’ work, and to other network-mediated collaborative storytelling projects, by … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ Notation ~ From a Script to a Score
Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin Script ~ Volumes of Voices ~ Narrative Tour This script of the narrative portion of the Volumes of Voices audio tour offers a first look at the narrator’s voice, and outlines sites the visitor will see as he … Read More →
Collective Storytelling ~ Visiting NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin How will Volumes of Voices’ visitors touring the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building share favorite treasures from its collections? They already are. Across Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and elsewhere, library users post thought fragments, images, and video about what they’ve … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ Prototype One
Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin Volumes of Voices ~ Demo Volumes of Voices is a layered audio tour of the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. At the beginning of the tour, a narrator will guide the visitor through some of … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ Concept Presentation
Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin Location: The New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Borough: Manhattan Concept Volumes of Voices is a layered sound intervention in the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street in Manhattan, and on … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ A Proposal for a Site-Specific Sound Intervention
Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin UPDATE : April 19, 2011 ~ Concept Presentation Location: The New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Borough: Manhattan On it’s first day of operations, May 24, 1911, between 30,000 and 50,000 New Yorkers toured Carrère and … Read More →
Soundwalk ~ Grand Central Terminal
Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin Date: February 3, 2011 Time: 1:30pm – 3:00pm Tasked this week with creating an audio tour of one of New York City’s public spaces, I was eager to explore the acoustic qualities of Grand Central Terminal. The terminal’s … Read More →
Deep Listening ~ Southwest corner of Crosby and Spring
Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin Date: January 31, 2011 Time: 6:32pm – 6:34pm There, in the periphery, girls in conversation, a murmur about the ears as a woman in her heels approaches, stepping along the sidewalk in rhythm, staccato, like horse hooves, the … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ Live Performance
Volumes of Voices, performed live by Christopher Carlson at the CCRMA Spring Concert, May 26, 2011. Chris writes: This piece is derived from a collaboration with Carlin Wragg, a student at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, and the New York Public Library. Together, we have … Read More →