audio-tour

toc =An Audio Tour is= The first thing to know about an //Audio Tour// is... it's //not// a News Report. With a news report, you the intrepid reporter are on the scene and the listener or viewer or reader is not. It might be something cool like a concert or an art show, or something uncool like a fire or a flood, but whatever it is, you're there, and you're telling the audience at home what they're not seeing.


 * An Audio Tour is //not// a News Report, and if you do a News Report for this project, you won't get any points! :+[**

An Audio Tour is, in fact, the opposite of a News Report. It's not that you're where the listener is not... rather the listener is standing, literally, in your footprints. Since you can't hang out there 24/7, you're making a voice recording they can pop on their iPod and have you give them your take on the "art" they're looking at:
 * //"Guide your eye to the lower right now, I want you to notice how David's use of color..."//
 * //"I think we can all relate to having to leave someone, and I think we see this in Eucharis, but let's focus on Telemachus now, what do you think he's feeling? Is that sadness? Or is he being cocky? Has he already 'moved on?' Does he really care at all?//

The ability to make a "museum audio tour" is a hugely empowering thing. In the past pretty much only PhD museum curators got to write these. Then they either read them into tape recorders themselves, or if it was a "big" show on some really famous artist like Picasso or van Gogh, then maybe they'd hire some Hollywood actor to read it for them.

Art History PhD's aren't bad choices for people to write these things, after all they've studied and thought about this stuff for many years. But if art, as we've said here in Art100, really is a //dialog// between artists/artworks and human culture... well... //**You're human, aren't you!?**// And your unique background and life experience and thoughts and hopes and fears and dreams will all give you a unique //read// on any art.

//**AND...**// now that we've all got Cell Phones and iPods, **You** can have a voice. All you have to do is hook up a couple of things on the web, and then you can go out, talk into your cell phone, and BAM, it can be heard on the web or automatically downloaded to your iPod (or, obviously, any MP3 player)

Your Team
1 person's not enuf... 3's too many... so please do these in teams of **2**. Of course 4 of you can go... just do 2 Audio Tours with 2 peeps each. No problemo!

=Tech Stuff=

The Tech Scoop
To do an audio tour you'll need 2 free web accounts. The first one is at "**Utterli**" which is a service that lets you talk into your cell phone and then it posts that audio on the web. Go sign up, it should be fairly easy and clear. Be sure to put your cell number in your "profile" so Utterli will know it's "you" when you call.
 * Utterli - http://www.utterli.com/
 * Blogger - http://audio-tour.blogspot.com/
 * Linking Utterli & Blogger
 * Making the Call

Second you'll need to join the Art110 Audio Tours blog over at Blogger. You need to be "invited" to do this. To be invited:
 * Just leave your email address in a [|message on my wiki page] and I'll "invite" you right away! :)
 * Or, yes, you can email me oldschool: gzucman@cypresscollege.edu

Once you're signed up on Utterli //and// Audio-Tour@Blogger, then you need to point your Utterli account //to// our blog
 * Sign-in to Utterli
 * underneath the big, orange "Utterli" you'll see //Home, Profile, Groups,// etc... click on //**Apps & Widgets**//
 * Under "Set up Cross-Posting" click the little orange Blogger icon
 * enter your //**Blogger**// email and password
 * then select our blog, click "Automatically post your utterli to this connection" and click "Finish"

You're done! Now you can call Utterli 1-712-432-Mooo and start talkin! You can later delete or modify @Blogger (and/or @Utterli) so feel free to leave test posts that you'll delete later. When you do a real audio tour - go to Blogger and include a photo, a title, and some descriptive info (Who you are / What the AT is of)

=Your Audio Tours= The Audio Tour you create **//should not be//** the 1st time you take the walk / look at the "art" of Cypress College. You should go over it first and have some idea of what you want to look at, some idea of what you want to say.

Guide your audience across your part of the Cypress College campus. Along the way, guide your viewer to things and insights that they might not see or not think about without your help. Art //is// everywhere, so help them see more!


 * Clearly start your walk** so that your listener can walk with you. Describe where you are going. Remember, **THIS IS AN AUDIO TOUR, NOT A "NEWS REPORT"** So don't say, "I see A, B, and C..." Instead guide your audience to //Look at "A" and notice 1, 2, 3, about it... why do you think that is? How does it make you feel?//

=//To Subscribe//= And then to subscribe in iTunes or any other //podcatcher// software, you just go to our "feed" at feedburner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/audio-tour

And hit the subscribe button! :)