# HISTLIT 93AH: Music, Politics, and Protest in the United States


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## part 1: orchestrating/diagramming a multimedia "experience"

* intro activity with Marvin Gaye What's Going On, musicking (9:50-10:00)
* []
* what are the layers in the first 30 seconds of the song?
* what kind of space are we in?
* what qualifies as "musicking" here?
* takeaways: inspired by protest, flips protest on its head but captures the layered effects of protest sound and music -- chaos of instruments, singing, speaking, clapping, etc. blooming into something new and coherent

* crafting/diagramming activity with blocks/layers representing visuals, audio, text formats (10:00-10:45)
* basically asking them to come up with a roadmap that shows the layers of visual, sound, and text, which prepares them well for the way that the DAW and video editing software is set up in layers
* refer back to Collected podcast, play a clip from Bernice Johnson Reagon episode (14:42); also ask about how Klingenberg refers to space (10:00-10:05) https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/collected-podcast/s2-episode-5
* hand out printouts of Kernodle freedom songs readings https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/148417/files/21828893?wrap=1 -- could have them work in 4 groups, one for each section of the article
* groups diagram a multimedia experience for their section of the text (10:05-10:35)

-the groups share out (10:35-10:40) and we chain together the four section diagrams

-intro to Oliveros attention concept (10:40-10:45) to set up the different stations

[I’m excited about leaning into the multimedia “experience” idea — there remains an argument component but the framing of this project lets them focus on perception and what it would be like to take in audio/visuals/etc. while moving or not moving in space
-key for “experience” — immersion — how to hold concentration

## part 2: build an argument about musicking in the technical tools
* zines
* audio
* video
(rotate in this order)

20 minutes at each station from 10:45 to 11:45

## highlighting text in a video
* still image
* scale all w/keyframes
* duplicate clip
* place duplicate on top
* choose "colorize" effect
* set blacks to black
* set other color to highlighter color
* on top clip, right and left crop with keyframes

## film zone (xtine)
* key concept
* layers of visuals + audio
* designing an experience will always involve these multitude of layers
* does the sound mirror or juxtapose with the visual
* christopher small's "musicking" as informing montage
* cutting together visual evidence of music in human life/what music does
* acts of creating, responding to, perceiving music
* starting to think about how you'd use visual assets to make a claim about this
* ins and outs
* clips in a timeline/montage
* adding music
* sourcing video (clip grab+ youtube) and [photos](https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2024-rhyme-rhythm-and-resistance-enacting-the-art-of-dissent-exhibition)
* scaling as zooming in FCPX

## zine/graphic design zone (alexa)
* arts supplies
* blockprinting
* canva on computer
* designing a guide/pamphlet/map for your experience
* text and image and the relationship between those in a layout
* visuals as evidence/how will they be analzyed
* just text?
* highlighting?
* graphic design elements?

## sound zone (leo)
[AUDIO BANKS to have in folders or in GarageBand:
-audio of protests..
-field recordings from Cities and Memory -- possibly from Cambridge
-Oliveros
-a couple of the songs from their playlist
-then they chop it up, add narration

Key concepts:
-the visualization of audio — the track window as a roadmap
-when is an audio experience “stationary,” when is it “moving”?
-one-to-one soundwalking vs constructed soundwalk

Flow:
1. Basics of audio editing/layering with existing clips (5-10 mins)
2. Adding narration (5-10 mins)
3. Tools for manipulation of space (5-10 mins):
-volume, panning and automation
-effects: reverb, EQ, and automation!
-application of automation can simulate movement through space

## to do
print small's musicking
print kernodle
project inverted mandala on the chalkboard wall
set up arts supplies and blockprinting
footage on machines
sound zone and video zones