Zach Poff

DUE IN 3 WEEKS (FEB 22)

Make a short piece (under 5 min) that you would consider a portrait (not necessarily a self-portrait, but that’s OK too).

• It can contain voices, but you should strongly consider what speech means in the context of your piece.
• Take into consideration the environment where the sound will be presented: You must consider the physical form (sculpture, installation, performance, just CD, etc.) and be willing to explain why any crucial elements are missing.
• Be practical: If your piece requires headphones, prepare multiple headphones so we don’t spend an hour listening individually. (See Dan Porvin in the editing room to get headphones, speakers, amplifiers, etc. He needs one week of advance notice. Please respect that.)

What not to do: “For my piece to make sense, everybody has to imagine that there’s a huge ice-sculpture with hundreds of tiny speakers, carved out of a receding glacier by 22 blind Inuit fishermen. But all I brought is this CD of me masturbating for 20 min. Is that OK?”

After the crit I need an Audio CD (not an MP3 file, not an AIFF file) with your name, date, and the name of the assignment, even if the piece involved other things. (It doesn’t have to be a definitive document, just a placeholder to jog my memory for grading, and proof that you can follow directions and burn a CD.)
NOTE: Don’t use iTunes to burn a CD unless you understand the disc burning preferences. iTunes is a great library application, but if you want to make a WAV/AIFF file into an audio CD, you should use Toast (or Burn) and avoid all of the importing/converting/mangling that iTunes typically does.