I’m proud to share the launch of their portable listening system! It’s designed to let park visitors hear underwater sounds in real time, including the vocalizations and feeding activity of manatees, captured in real-time using a hydrophone.
Announcing the release of three brand-new lesson plans that I co-authored, available now on the National Park Service website.
What is an audio-described brochure? It’s a brochure you can listen to, offering not just the text but also interpretations of visual elements like maps and photos. UniDescription is a platform and app that provides these audio-described brochures across the National Park Service, making the experience of visiting these parks more accessible for blind visitors. […]
I’m excited to share the release of a new sound pack on Freesound.org, featuring the unique and captivating sounds of the Canaveral National Seashore. This collection was assembled with the help of my field recording students at Stetson University. Our sound pack captures the essence of this special coastal landscape, offering a diverse range of […]
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 […]
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 […]
There have been many highlights recently for my continuing community engagement project Young Sound Seekers. Arguably at the top of that list was a week-long summer camp that we developed and delivered in June 2022. The camp was a partnership with Atlantic Center for the Arts and Stetson’s office of Continuing Education and Outreach, and funded entirely […]
In DIGA 366, I gave my students six weeks at the end of the term to develop advanced creative projects. There were a range of options, but only three requirements: reach for 4-6 minutes duration apply learning from the overall course sequence (DIGA 365 & 366) demonstrate improved skill with hardware or software tools The […]
In DIGA 365, I asked students to create an original sound design for a robot at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.
Young Sound Seekers is a new community outreach program that creates opportunities for blind and partially-sighted youth to learn about natural soundscapes and audio field recording.
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