Field Recording: Red Deer Season with Chris Watson - ONLINE
Type
Residency, School & Class
Category
Sound
Status
Archived
Deadline
September 27, 2020
Application Fee
Not Available
Host
CAMP Fr
Location
Online, United Kingdom


Chris is one of the world's leading sound recordists specialising in wildlife and natural phenomena. In 1971 he was a founding member of the influential Sheffield-based experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire. His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television, and since then Chris has gone on to forge a reputation as a pioneer of natural sound recording and production, working closely with David Attenborough on Frozen Planet, The Life of Mammals, The Life of Birds, Life in the Undergrowth, Galapagos and others, winning a BAFTA for his work on The Life Of Birds. His TV credits include Spring Watch, Autumn Watch and Big Cat Diary, and in 2012 the Broadcasting Press Guild named Chris "Radio Broadcaster of the Year". In 2013 Chris won the Paul Hamlyn Composers Award, and he recently collaborated with Björk on the soundtrack to her 2015 MoMA retrospective in New York.


Chris has released four solo albums of field recordings, including "Stepping into the Dark" which won an Award of Distinction at the 2000 Prix Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, and has collaborated with Mika Vainio, Philip Jeck, Hazard, Fennesz, AER (Jon Wozencroft, aka "Alpha Echo Romeo"), and Biosphere, BJNilsen, and Marcus Davidson.

This course will focus on all factors of working with environmental sound - recording, production, decoding and critical analysis. Through a series of online meet-ups, assignments, individual tuition sessions and a library of resources, the course will cover:


Fieldcraft and microphone techniques; 


Spatial audio recording techniques such as spaced stereo microphones, surround sound arrays, Ambisonic techniques using a Soundfield microphone ST450, Schoeps double mid side arrays and Sennheiser middle and side systems;


Surround sound playback and multi-channel systems;


Decoding techniques;


Listening sessions and discussion of critical analysis; and,


Technical operation and specifics of location recording equipment.


 


This is an online course, but it involves real-time sessions and contact time with your tutor - it's not a "download these videos and watch them at your leisure" type of thing - it's a real workshop with live lectures, individual tuition, assignments and feedback sessions. We've tried to make this remote session as close as possible to the experience of an onsite workshop at CAMP.


The course starts on 30/09/2020 and ends on 04/10/2020.


For full details, including booking and cost: https://www.campfr.com/online/chriswatsondeer">https://www.campfr.com/online/chriswatsondeer