Workshop of Europe is going on

... with a new layout for the website and 2 amazing projects on Open Space Technology and informal learning networks!

possible follow up

As the feedback of the Interactive Workshop of Europe was so positiv, we would like to go on. So there are two new ideas to elaborate - together with you!

* YOUTH INITATIVE on Open Space
[regular meetings in different european cities / during the year 2010 / to learn more about Open Space technology and to get in touch with project working with this method connected to urban space questions (social inclusion/urban development/community building/street art etc) / to work on our own 'professionalisation' and this network of young professionals]

* TRAINING on images / photography
[two stage training on images using Open Space technology / two weeks, summer 2010/ South France / at least 4 countries] / preparation in winter 2010 and funding application for february, 1st]

Are you interested? We are looking forward to get in touch with you!

For further information please contact:
info(a)workshop-of-europe.eu

documentation is online!

Hi everybody

Please check our website to get to the documentation of the Workshop of Europe.

www.workshop-of-europe.eu/methods.html

It is work in progress, so within the next weeks we will put all informations, videos, files online. The photos are already done, so have a look!

let's start using our blog... all together...

welcome to our blog!

We hope you will add some new documents, ideas, videos and so on! Do not forget to have a look on our website (www.workshop-of-europe.eu) to think a little bit how to use it in future, which documents we could put there and so on!
Actually, I'm waiting for Alice first note because she just sent an SMS explaining all her ideas of future project in 156 characters (did she get influenced by twitter?!?...). So some explanations and further informations would be great! Up to you!!! :-)

Rosetta Part II:The Sounding Spoons

Hi,
I didnt want the sound part of the Rosetta Story to be missing here, so I just made a movie with black picture out of the Audiofile. dont ask how - enjoy! :-)
greetings - jonas

Audio Examples of microphone types

Hi all, I recently watched this movie "STEAL THIS FILM Pt.II" (which I must recommend for everyone who has become more interested in the topic of copyright control, http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part2/) and I saw/listened to the different types of audio in it. I excerpted one little part for you to demonstrate what different microphones do to the quality of sound: PLEASE LISTEN WITH HEADPHONES
The sequence consists of four speakers:
1) is a normal-size room and probably a regular cardioid directional or even a highly directional microphone. You can assume this because you hear the room in the sound, probably this was chosen because there is some machine noise in the non-visible background...
2) is an outside set with probably a lot of street noise. The microphone might be a "tie-clip microphone" because you hear the wind distortions in the low frequencies. also tie-clip mics have the advantage of reducing environmental noise.
3) is a normal-size room with little furniture and acoustically very "hard" walls/surfaces. A lot of reflections are audible. The microphone is probably only an omni-directional one on top of the camera because you can hear a lot of the room reflections. thats why directional microphones are better in case you DO NOT want to hear the room where the sound was recorded.
4) is very quiet and small environment inbetween two book shelves. The microphone is probably also a small "tie-clip microphone" because you can hear so much bass frequencies of his voice. that happens when you position the small microphone directly at the jacket on his chest. It gets a lot of bass freqs from the chest directly.

and here is a last example of how a higly directional microphone sounds. you should use such types outside with a lot of street noise but as you can hear if you listen closely it kind of narrows down the frequency range of the voice. there is not as much bass as normally and it sounds a bit compressed.


That was a small demo of listening to sound. hope you enjoyed. greetings to everyone.
jonas

Advanced evaluation part 2

The second group is evaluating the advanced module.