I recently (June 2018) judged student portfolios at the School of the International Center of Photography in New York City. I had done this before. In general, students brought a series of inkjet or traditional darkroom prints for me to look over and offer feedback. Sometimes, especially last year, a few students showed me their photos…
EFFECTIVE RADIO ADVERTISING COPY
This post is based on a lecture I used to give in teaching radio advertising. Much of it applies to advertising of any kind, but I think radio techniques are often hard for some people to learn. Someone who mostly listens to a low-budget, small-market radio station may often be exposed to very weak ads,…
SKYPE RIGHT
This post is a kind of “how to” lesson. In an earlier post, “Talk Radio,” I discussed various methods for interactive voice broadcasting. But this post is simpler; it just tries to suggest ideas to make your Skype calls, whether for radio or just social, more effective. Skype, being free as basic software for noncommercial…
PODCAST 2 – SERIOUS PRODUCTION
In my earlier post on podcasts, I mentioned I would do more posts about podcasting. I got off on other topics, but a very good panel presented at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) National Convention held in NYC in late October (2017) piqued my interest and has motivated me to produce another post on this…
ODYSSEY OF A SOUND COMPOSER — PT. 4 of 4
DECONSTRUCTION This is part four of a four-part series about my own odyssey as a sound composer/designer. It is an expanded version of the topics I presented at Invisible Places 2017, held in Ponta Delgada, Azores, in April 2017. The previous three posts in this series dealt with various techniques I used in creating sound…
ODYSSEY OF A SOUND COMPOSER — PT. 3 of 4
SOUNDSCAPES This is part three of a four-part series about my own odyssey as a sound composer/designer. It is an expanded version of the topics I presented at Invisible Places 2017, held in Ponta Delgada, Azores, in April 2017. In part two of this series I described how I have used algorithmic techniques to create…
ODYSSEY OF A SOUND COMPOSER — PT. 2 of 4
This is part two of a four-part series about my own odyssey as a sound composer/designer. It is an expanded version of the topics I presented at Invisible Places 2017, held in Ponta Delgada, Azores, in April 2017. PART 2—ALGORITHMS AND SAMPLES In part one of this series I discussed becoming interested in creating electronic…