Michael Boezi

Bio
Michael Boezi is a singer-songwriter, content curator, and Generation X post-punk poster child. 
His influences run from obvious to not always evident, from Billy Bragg to dub reggae.

Discover

• Heartbeat of MIT
  • In groups of 2 or 3, go around the Media Lab and find interesting sounds
  • We'll ask Center for Civic Media and Fab Lab to remain open and let people in
  • Use iphones to record sounds
    • I use Voice Memos to record most everything b/c it has some (limited) editing features.
    • GarageBand is another
    • SoundCloud's app is good for capturing (see/hear sample I sent) but NO ON-BOARD EDITING
    • I suppose people could use whatever they want
  • Develop a character or a story around the soundscape of MIT Media Lab
    • I like this, but need to think about it some more.

Questions:
How do you want to group people?
By intended creation, perhaps?

• Music
• Podcast
• Story/narrative
• Poetry
• Other?

Do you want to do something similar as an example?

Where can you point people to record sounds? Doors, elevators (inside and out), echoey spaces, zen space downstairs, outside, interviewing people from MIT you see about their work or ideas

• RjDj is really good at this too. I don't think you can export sounds though.

Questions from Michael
How to run and what the format should be

Embarrassing activities
What tools do you use?
Whats your interaction with sound? what does it mean to you? how to get people to think in terms of sound
Quilt of talent--make it about togetherness, 
Rhythms are cultural--rhythms of typewriter might be different, and the rhythm of the culture might be different

Limitations of a time-based medium

Bring a common-set of sound-making tools
something that will make a sound--commonality in a story
common-characters in the story

Getting an emotion to come across in sound is difficult
Almost have to overdo it
Subtlety is not your friend