Introduction
Welcome to the website of EOU Acoustic Space, a production of
the Geography Department at Eastern Oregon University.
This is the first experimental
attempt to facilitate podcasting from the department. So as time
goes on the ideas, applications, and approaches to these podcast
files will no doubt evolve into other shapes and forms. It is
the thinking of the producer of these podcasts that podcasting
is a time-shifted-virtual-version of good-old radio broadcasting.
Thus, podcasting maintains some of the same inherently unique
characteristics true to the delivery of information on radio.
Basically, podcasting, like radio, is the delivering of information
through an electronic adaptation of the oral tradition. Thus,
images, although not unwelcome here, will be appurtenant to sound(s)
at this website. A focus of this inquiry into podcasting is to
explore as many aspects of the spatial dimensions of sound as
possible, geosounds might be a good term for it. Sounds
that define space. But this not only includes abstract and more
esoteric forms but also the applied application of sound. Practically
speaking the site also deals with the delivery of sound-based
curricula for geography programs at EOU.
Technical
Aspects
The files on this site are delivered in both MP3 and QuickTime
formats. MP3s can be played in most portable players and in software
such as I-Tunes. QuickTime files can be played on a QuickTime
player which can be obtained from Apple. To get a QuickTime Player
tap
here.
The primary hardware used in the production of these sound files include: An Apple G4 Power Book running OS 10.4, a Marantz PMD 670 digital recorder for mix down and field recordings, an M-Audio USB sound interface, a Sony MD recorder for field recordings. Microphones include: Soundpro Binaurals, Peavey PVM 480 condensers, and my favorite a Stedman Transonic cartridge which requires a small amplifying board (Peavey). Additional hardware includes an Akai DPS 12 digital studio and Superscope CD burner. The software used in the production of these sound files includes the Podcasting component of Garage Band, an apple product, and TOAST for burning. as well as I-Tunes for review of the products. The latest edition to the studio is a Soundcraft Compact 4 board and Peavey mic and two Philips CD players.
Contact
Me
Any thoughts, ideas or questions regarding these podcasts can
be directed to M.Mustoe. E-mail
me...or I'd prefer a telephone call (audio) at the number
above or this number (541) WOodland-2 3502. (Which
is the same number above, only using the appropriate formatting
of the Bell System exchange name from the days (years) before
deregulation.)
Crappie Geography (4 August 2008) A Town
A Fish And An Economy. A podcast and video podcast about Richland,
Oregon, M. Mustoe Tap
Here
Aether Publication (4 August 2008), Selling Products With
Place, Paper Presentation: M. Mustoe Tap
Here
The Coffee Podcast Dr.
M. Mustoe podcasts on coffee from.... a geographic point of view
for Dr. Laura Gows Freshman OSU Ag Students. Tap Here.
EOU students SOUND great! Dr.
Kevin Roy, teaches multi-media in the media arts program here
at EOU. You can hear some of his
student's work here.
The Sounds of La Grande,
Oregon: Students from
the summer cultural geography 105 class sample the acoustic space
of La Grande, Oregon. Tap
here.
The Thirtymile Fire: Exclusive interviews with authors
Kathie FitzPatrick and John Norman Maclean. Tap here, or here.
The Association
of American Geographers: Paper
Presentation: Landscape Images in Point of Purchase Advertising.
Tap
Here.
EOU Geography Students In
the News: A regular feature of EOU's Acoustic Space listen to
the experiences of EOU geography students: Tap here
Jim Aylesworth's
great sound geography story: listen
to Country Crossing NEW! Watch and hear a real country crossing!
Margaret Wise Brown: listen to the
classic: Home
For A Bunny !
A Northwest Reading: The Mythical
Strait, a reading from Northwest
Gateway, by Archie Binn!
OUR FIRST PODCAST
1.
Diffusion and Perception. The 2005 winter quarter cultural geography
course took on an extra credit assignment. They were asked to
find a (my) truck in the EOU parking area with a teddy bear in
the window. Next they were asked to report on how they located
the truck - through what process of diffusion of information -
and look at the teddy and ask themselves the question, what is
the teddy saying? They needed to consider the truck - the teddy
bear - and their surroundings ... in their response to this question.
Finished 17 May 2006. 15 min:14 sec. Tap below for mp3 or QuickTime files.
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| Image Links Students and the truck My Bear Smokey Bear Hello Kitty STUDENT REVIEWS |
Jim Ritter
was a forest worker around Mt. St Helens before and after it erupted.
Ritter has worked for many logging outfits in the Pacific Northwest
and tells what it was like re-planting after the 1980s blast.
This is an interview I had with Jim in 1994 at Centralia Community
College. This interview is now used in the Land Use and Environment
317 DDE class.
1. A STORY AND A SONG
2. WORDS AND MUSIC
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SOUND LINKS |
IDEAS FOR EDUCATION |
SELECTED PODCASTS |