September 26, 2008

Workshop on vocal prototyping

Filed under: Teaching - meaningfulnoise @ 6:33 am

Vocal prototyping is a quick (aka "dirty") prototyping technique for sound design. It is especially useful for development in teams mixing participants from different backgrounds. I’ve used it for game sound design, some other concept work and early development of interactive applications. Now it was time to introduce the technique to our students in Sonic Interaction Design.

Here are the slides from the first vocal prototyping workshop I had this week. The schedule was really tight, as there was only time to do a 1 hour session. The results were great, though. After a short warm-up with onomatopoetic words, our students did a tremendous job sonifying fantastic machines that turned sawdust into living creatures. You wouldn’t believe the noise they made!

 

September 10, 2008

More sound-related legislation & standards

Filed under: Miscellaneous, Teaching - meaningfulnoise @ 4:35 pm

 

Continuing the theme of the previous post, some further requirements & laws regarding sound in Finland (in Finnish).

 

September 3, 2008

Sound-related legislation in Finland

Filed under: Miscellaneous, Teaching - meaningfulnoise @ 7:30 am

I was gathering material on sound-related legislation for a course I’m teaching in Sonic Interaction Design. I might as well document it here, too. The list contains Finnish legislation (hence, in Finnish) concerning sound in some form - who gets to make sound, when and where… Mostly, what this legislation does:

  • Defines requirements for warning sound (heavy machinery, emergency vehicles) and their maintenance
  • Establishes levels for determining what is hazardous noise (links into working conditions, worker’s rights)
  • Defines building requirements for noise control
  • Defines environmental noise control requirements
  • Gives some (rather vague) guidelines on the individual person’s rights to produce sound (public speaking, busking)

The list so far:

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