Sound Design with dj Carol

Carol Chiu Audio Design System Sketch

0. Go with the Flow

1. Hide technology
2. Use your local resources (ex: New School facilities)
3. Collaborate because I am not the jack of all trades
4. Make an effort to hang out with those you collaborate
5. Emotions and attitude is contagious so watch yourself
6. Laugh as a team, and laugh at yourself
7. Probe into other people's culture including their music and play list
8. When asked how it was made, light yourself up and call it "magic"

150 Word Thesis Update

My deliverable thesis is a series of audio collaborations. These collaborative projects are important to me because documenting the process will provide a diary of production. It includes documenting laughter, frustration, and ideas. These collaborative projects are important to others because my sound design benefits the New School Radio station, the Sheila Johnson architectural space, and the web space ipodcarol.com.  My goal is to provide the sound design and quality to every project I touch.

It is important to have fun during the process, but my trajectory is a documentary story telling audio reel of  my collaborative sound projects that communicate personality, process, and imagination. By turning my projects into a story telling sound reel, I can effectively organize information. This allows us to share our lives, ethics, and information. The goal is to entertain, to inform, and to educate. 

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Tetris Moves Me

Tetris Moves Me - Narrated Version from Joana Kelly on Vimeo.

Class with Yuri Gitman Computation 08

March 23, 2008: This course is intense. There's lots of basic concepts to grasp here such as boolean, for loop, recursion, short hand, floating, integer, lists, if and then statements, and some more. Anyhow what I enjoy most of about this class is that it is balanced through weekly writing, reading, computing, and discussions. Yuri Gitman gives us blank white paper to write on and says he enjoys reading the handwriting. This is my first college teacher who out loud admited he enjoys reading students' handwriting.

Class with Yuri Gitman Computation 08

February 1, 2008: This is a major studio course taught by Yuri Gitman. I choose this professor because of his style of work. It is genuine and ethical. We are using a book called Processing, a programming handbook for visual designers and artists. We also read from Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. I find this book, Flow, extremely useful and motivating in my current life because I am often able to relate to the Flow experiences. The eight components of Flow are the following: 1.) challenging activity requires skill, 2.) concentration, 3.) concentration is possible, 4.) because tasks have clear goals and 5.) provide immediate feedback 6.) acts with deep effortless involvement 7.) sense of self emerges stronger and 8.) sense of duration is altered.

Digital Hopscotch

Doris Yee, Daniel Cashind, Carol Chiu