- Listen: One Sounding Out podcast of interest to you. Map out its composition. Focus upon the qualities of voice, music, effects and ambiences. What editing techniques are used?
- Read: Explore the textual material introduced to you. Think about a central topic. What has already been written about it? Are there already audio papers on the topic? If not, how might you expand upon the existent text material into the sonic domain.
Episode 54: The sound of Magic
In this podcast the presenter is showing us some musical methods from the medieval period. There are not much sound or musical effects during the speech, however, the podcast is introduced with a song and then a short presentation by another person, different from the main presenter. At the very end we can listen to one of these medieval pieces that the presenter was talking about.
Drobnick – Listening Awry
In this text Jim Drobnick speaks about the importance of the sonic studies and the different characteristics within them, more in particular in the listening practice. For this purpose, he created an anthology; “Aural Cultures”, a collection of essays from different authors whose he describe one by one in the text.
I don’t know if there is an audio paper version of this book, or even a related field, but I’m sure that there are plenty of podcasts and similar recordings speaking about aural and sonic studies. If I had to expand this subject by myself into a sonic creation, I would probably create a podcast where I’d talk about the subject and I would also include some musical or sonic related pieces.