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Spring 2013 Audio Workshops
Jack Straw Audio Workshops are the perfect opportunity to jump start that recording project you've been thinking about, to refine your digital editing skills, or to get that first hands on introduction to the world of audio recording and editing.
HOW TO SIGN UP: A nonrefundable deposit of $25 is required to register and hold a place in each class. Students are encouraged to pay in full at time of registration. For more information email workshops@jackstraw.org.
Discounts for the visually impaired are offered on Microphone Workshop and Basic Field Recording. Co-sponsored by Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences and Jack Straw Productions, with support from the Technology Matching Fund of the City of Seattle Department of Information Technology.
| Microphone Workshop | Thursday, May 16, 6-10pm |
| Basic Field Recording | Saturday, May 18, 9am-5pm |
NEW CLASS! Intro to Digital Audio Editing with Audacity and GarageBand |
Wednesday, May 22, 6-10pm |
| Beginning ProTools | Wednesday-Friday, June 5-7, 6-9pm |
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery
Lost Long: a landscape March 22 - May 22, 2013 Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9-5 |
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Memory is malleable, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. In Lost Long the memories that fuel a long distance love affair with the horizontal landscape of Central Montana come together in a miscellanea of written words, gathered recordings, and reinvented visuals. The account holds dear to what memory believes; recounting days together, imagining reunions and making real what is distant.
More information on our New Media Gallery page.
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Jack Straw New Media Gallery
I love you, but you're too loud! May 31 - July 12, 2013 Opening reception: Friday, May 31, 7pm
Artist workshop: Saturday, June 22, 10am
Jack Straw New Media Gallery |
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Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9-5
Also open during evening events at Jack Straw
This marble-machine contraption integrates the percussive sounds of marbles rolling, dropping, skipping, shooting, striking, bouncing, rebounding, rattling, pinging, and knocking into a colorful, canorous cacophony.
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Jack Straw Artist Project
Tina Hoggatt: Story Chairs Jack Straw Productions
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Story Chairs Live Reading
Friday, June 7, 7pm
Jack Straw Productions
Featuring readers Kathleen Alcalá, Gwen Demombynes, Pamela Dodson, Gabriela Denise Frank, Willow Fox, Lily Garfield, Tina Hoggatt, Janel Kolby, Melissa Koosmann, Mark Nassutti, Judith Van Praag, Megan Vared, and Brenda Winter Hansen.
Music from Lucien La Motte.
See Art Zone with Nancy Guppy's piece on Story Chairs!
Story Chairs, a temporary audio installation by Jack Straw Resident Artist Tina Hoggatt featuring the work of over 30 writers and musicians, is now installed in Jack Straw's new lobby.
Originally conceived and designed for a 2008 installation in the Missoula Art Museum, the two chairs are artist-designed and crafted, in collaboration with Jeffry Mitchell and Ben Oblas. Audio plays through speakers hidden in the upholstery, triggered by the weight of the sitter. Tina Hoggatt received a Jack Straw Productions 2012 artist residency that supported audio production for this second installation of the Story Chairs. Nearly all of the audio was recorded at Jack Straw with the help of engineer and musician Moe Provencher.
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Every two weeks we will make a new audio piece created through tour artist residencies available for free download. This week's artist: Ruth Marie Tomlinson. Subscribe at jackstraw.org/artistoftheweek, via itunes, or listen right here:
In a partnership with the Somali Youth and Family Club, Northwest Folklife, and photographer Doug Plummer, Jack Straw Productions documented the development and production of two Somali cultural performances. Read and hear more here.
Jack Straw Celebrates the 1962 Seattle World's Fair Read all about (and listen to) our audio projects with Seattle Center, Denny International Middle School, The Museum of History and Industry, HistoryLink.org, 4Culture, KCTS, KUOW, and KBCS in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World's Fair at jackstraw.org/thefair! Seattle World School: Poetry Moments / Jack Straw produced two projects working with students at the Seattle World School: A book and recordings of original poetry in collaboration with the Vietnamese Friendship Association, and a series of PSAs about healthy behaviors in collaboration with the Refugee Women's Alliance.
These podcasts feature interviews and readings by Jack Straw Writers such as Michael Spence, Merna Ann Hecht, and Wendy Call. Click here to listen.
Special Projects Jack Straw Productions works with various organizations and communities to create oral histories, museum audio guides, and neighborhood audio tours. Click here to learn more. |
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