Apr 212013
 

Instructor: Sarah Montague and James Briggs
Fall 2013 Undergraduate Studio
Eugene Lang College
CRN 3873
Fridays 12:10 – 2:50
Limit to 14 Students

This course is devoted to the continued development and programming of the online radio station WNSR (newschoolradio.org).  The goal of each class will be to provide students with the tools to create vibrant content and a practical management base for the station as a continuing University-wide enterprise.  Students will learn both basic production techniques and concepts related to the creation of culture and news programming for the station, which operates on the public radio model linking imaginative sound with social awareness.

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Apr 212013
 

Instructor: Sarah Montague
Fall 2013 Undergraduate Seminar
Eugene Lang College
CRN 7410
Monday and Wednesdays 3:50 – 5:30
Limit to 18 Students

This course will present the theory, aesthetics, and practical applications of radio and audio production.  It will cover the development of recorded sound, early acoustic works and sound art, radio production in the context of the radio broadcast industry and radio/audio production today in various contexts such as commercial and public radio, audio books, and webcasting.  While not an engineering course, students will also learn practical skills related to production concepts and design, and the various formats in which productions are realized: news and cultural features, documentaries, docu-dramas, audio books, and drama.  We will also touch on related fields such as film and theatre sound, and sound art.

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Apr 212013
 

Instructor: Sarah Montague
Fall 2013 Undergraduate Studio
Eugene Lang College
CRN 7802
Wednesdays 12:10 – 2:50
Limit to 18 Students

Course Description:
The Skybridge Art & Sound Space, which bridges the 11th- and 12th-street college buildings on the third floor, is a vibrant and exciting laboratory for aural concepts and critical thinking. Students will learn the history and practice of audio art—including discussions of works by innovators such as Walter Ruttman; John Cage; Pauline Oliveros—in the context of exhibition conceptualization, the gallery arts, and installation practice.  Students will work towards the creation of at least one, and possibly two, installations in the Space.

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Apr 212013
 

Sarah Montague, an adjunct faculty member of Eugene Lang College since 2002, has been an independent radio/audio producer for over twenty-five years. At the New School, she teaches courses in radio and audio aesthetics, radio documentary, radio drama, and sound design, and helped found the New School’s online radio station, newschoolradio.org (WNSR), for which she is one of two faculty advisors.

She is the producer of the National Public Radio-distributed spoken word/drama programs Jazzplay and The Radio Stage, and Public Radio International’s popular short story series Selected Shorts (which she has produced since 1996).  She is the creator of documentary specials on the cultural history of The Titanic, Adrienne Rich, Virginia Woolf, and Sir Tom Stoppard among others.  Her production of Archibald Macleish’s The Fall of the City, and an accompanying documentary, The Fall of the City: Prophetic Classic, won awards from The New York Festivals and The Alliance of Women in Media.   She is also a cultural feature producer, and her work has been heard on Morning Edition, Studio 360, and On the Media.   She has also worked in audio publishing as an adaptor and director/producer.  She is a former board and faculty member of the National Audio Theatre Festivals, and a published critic and essayist.

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