Sound Out Media

Okay, my next workshop is finally scheduled .. it will be on Saturday, September 25th from 10 until 12:30, with an optional lunch and sound/photowalk afterwards.
Hope you can join us. We always have a lot of fun at these workshops. This workshop is intended for people who would like to do audio and [...]

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I finally found what I’ve been looking for. I’ve want to find an app that would allow me to post soundfiles directly to blogs, Twitter, and Facebook with no fuss, no muss.
Soundcloud is it. And it’s so much more than that. It’s a community of soundmakers .. musicians, documentarians, poets .. if [...]

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I’ve just been reading a series of post on Airdaily, the email exchange list for the members of the Association of Independents in Radio.
Bad audio is one of the things that rankles every radio turned multimedia producer. There are too few cameras out there with adequate built in audio recorders. And also few [...]

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Any of you who have worked with me know how much I have extolled the virtues of the Samson Zoom H2 Audio recorder.
What is amazing about the H2 is that it is beautiful broadcast quality sound with a built in microphone for less than $200. Considering that my first reporter gear was a Sony cassette [...]

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If you’ve never been to a Podcamp before, it’s something I highly recommend if you want to learn about communicating on the Web.
Podcamps aren’t just about podcasting, they’re about the whole field of social media. They’re free and speakers are people who just want to share their knowledge.
There are some tremendously generous people with [...]

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Okay, peeps. I need your opinion.
Am I alone in thinking that Facebook and Twitter are on the road to becoming The Former Newest Big Thing?
I am sensing a shift .. frustration with Twitter because it doesn’t always work (too many .. “Whoops …we’re overloaded” messages. And fear that we’re becoming too dependent on [...]

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After many years of working with audio only, I am now adding pictures.
Just to explain why it’s taken so long. I have worked in television before, and I’ve learned some valuable skills along the way. But up until now, I have resisted the urge to work with pictures, thinking that this would take [...]

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I know, it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged. That’s because I’ve been travelling (ya, ya, I know there are internet connections all over the world so I could have blogged from Guatemala. But I was too busy gathering stories and visiting campesinos and Mayan women in the mountains)
So, now I’m back [...]

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I’ve just been handed an interesting challenge .. I’ve been asked to compose a soundscape piece that will walk listeners through a streetscape. Only this time, I won’t be able to go out and gather the sounds by walking around and recording.
This soundscape will recreate the sounds of the street in the 1930’s .. [...]

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With Labour Day being so late this year, is it still summer or is it fall already? For the teachers I know, it’s back to school today even though their students won’t be coming back until next week.
So, I guess it really is back to work, back to school. If not today, then [...]

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