December 10th, 2023
For the last two years, I have been part of Stetson’s Quality Enhancement Plan through my Electronic Music (DIGA 365) course. Our QEP is focussed on information literacy and teaching students to gather credible information from dependable sources. At first glance, it seems like a strange learning goal for a course emphasizing the production of […]
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June 30th, 2023
Working on Young Sound Seekers has made me an advocate for accessibility and universal design. My advice to anyone who teaches: It’s really important to think about barriers that may exist while preparing your lessons, and think about ways you can eliminate them at the design stage. That is the philosophy that led me to […]
Tags: accessibility, acoustic ecology, listening, yss •
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May 8th, 2023
Each Spring semester, I give my students in DIGA 366 time at the end of the term to develop advanced creative projects. Because of our work together on the WFAE conference, they only had four weeks to pull these off. The results are still impressive! There were some live performance for Ableton Push, original sound […]
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March 27th, 2023
For over a year leading up to actual event in March 2023, I was part of a team planning and producing an international conference right here in Volusia County. The Listening Pasts – Listening Futures conference marked the 30th anniversary of the founding of World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and was the first international conference on […]
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March 10th, 2023
The spring 2023 semester provided an opportunity for me to finally show a new sound sculpture that have been in development since 2018. The piece entitled every morning explores the soundscape at DeLeon Spring State Park, where I made 24 visits and recorded over 16 hours of audio field recordings. It was originally selected for […]
Tags: field recording, hand-art-center, installation, sound art •
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