REQUIREMENTS
grading & assessment criteria

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ASSIGNMENTS

Portfolio | 50%
collects all of your projects to deliver as a packaged CD-R, or on the web (MP3 files for download or streaming); includes artwork, comprehensive liner notes and commentary on the creative and technical aspects of audio work (i.e., your Reflective Statement); also turn in a copy of your uncompressed .WAV files on CD-R as data. (understand that you will turn in a data CD-R of your audio regardless of whether you choose to do the web-based portfolio, or the physical CD-R portfolio.)

01 | sound sculpture
02 | remix seed.01
03 | softsynth databender
04 | remix seed02 and/or seed03 (can turn in both for extra credit)
05 | folder of mystery, *or your 60-second CommDem submission
06 | optional extra credit (seed03, or other bonus material you've worked on during the quarter)

examples of online portfolios:
testable patterns
by Ted Severson
Don't Think. Just Do.
by Larry Nguyen
Hologramophonic Universe
by E23
Unknowns
by Ovni
digital audio production portfolio
by Natalia Fletcher
The End (liner notes as Flash)
by Will Poindexter

MP3s should be stored on your LLC account, or your own hosted website. Compress files to 160 bitrate MP3.
CD-R portfolios will not be returned, so please make your own copy.

Portfolio Due: end of final exam period, 5pm, wednesday june 7, 2006

Reflective Statement | 25%
comprehensive commentary on the creative, critical and technical aspects of audio work.
this statement should be 5-6 pages, double-spaced, or included as comprehensive liner notes with your CD-R; see discussion points below.

Due: end of final exam period, 5pm, wednesday june 7, 2006

Participation | 25%
attendance, reading response papers 1-5, and discussion; timely completion of projects, especially portfolio work and contributions to folder of mystery project; the reading response papers should follow the guidelines of the Reflective Statement (below), and should in turn serve as possible keystones to critical discussion within the Reflective Statement.

REFLECTIVE STATEMENT
comments on the creative, critical and technical aspects of audio work

This statement provides you the opportunity to discuss the technical production of your work; to contextualize your work theoretically and culturally; and to assess your own work critically.

1. ASSIGNMENT: Describe the assignments. What were the various assignment goals?

2. PRODUCTION: How did you meet the goals of the assignments in your work? What specific techniques and production strategies did you use to fulfill or surpass these goals? What works or artists served as role-models for you?

3. CONTEXTS: How would you position your work in larger theoretical and/or cultural contexts? Your response here could touch on the content of your work (e.g., a theme or abstract concept); theories of production and technology (e.g., issues related to sampling); or both (e.g., genre-placement). What ideas from the readings, listening material, and artist works informed your creative decisions?

4. CRITICAL: What did you hope to communicate or express in your work? Explain what you learned along the way that may give people greater understanding of your finished work, the processes involved in its completion, and yourself as the creator of this work.