Hi everyone! This article is about how Tesla helped Puerto Rico by turning on power again with their solar panels. You can read it here.
Video Games and Voices
This article is about the physical and emotional labor of voice actors who bring video game characters and worlds to life.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-24-billion-video-game-industry-voice-actors-dont-make-enough-to-live-on/2017/10/27/944a0800-98d8-11e7-87fc-c3f7ee4035c9_story.html?utm_term=.beaf07403394
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Discussion questions for Aesthetics of Failure
What does Cascone mean by “the medium is no longer the message. The tool is the message”? How did the shift from focusing only on sound objects to also paying attention to their background influence music production?
The sound of progress?
Interesting article about airport noise pollution
Sonic Attacks
Recently, diplomats in Cuba were victims of a “sonic attack” leaving them with a variety of symptoms. Could this be the newest form of terrorism?
Linking Soundscape Composition & Acoustic Ecology Questions
1. Given the delineations of soundscape & acoustic ecology, do you think the two terms belong together? 2. WesterKamp writes, “The ear and the microphone are the starting points for the soundscape composer,” do you think ears and microphones should be the only two tools used for soundscape composition or should there be more tools… Read more Linking Soundscape Composition & Acoustic Ecology Questions
Questions about the Westerkamp article_Younghoo Cho
Westerkamp mentions in the article, “Today the term soundscape composition does exist, but none really seems to know what is meant by it, myself included… And my sense is that as soon as we try to define it further…Because each soundscape composition emerges out of its own context in place and time, culturally, politically, socially,… Read more Questions about the Westerkamp article_Younghoo Cho