Spring 2013 Audio Workshops

Jack Straw Audio Workshops are the perfect opportunity to jump start that recording project you've been thinking about, to refine your digital editing skills, or to get that first hands on introduction to the world of audio recording and editing.

HOW TO SIGN UP: A nonrefundable deposit of $25 is required to register and hold a place in each class. Students are encouraged to pay in full at time of registration. For more information email workshops@jackstraw.org. Discounts for the visually impaired are offered on Microphone Workshop and Basic Field Recording. Co-sponsored by Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences and Jack Straw Productions, with support from the Technology Matching Fund of the City of Seattle Department of Information Technology.   

Beginning ProTools: Wednesday-Friday, June 5-7, 6-9pm     

Greg Yasinitsky will discuss how his work is informed by his studies in classical music and jazz and how these genres have intersected in recent pieces including Nighthawk in Flight (2012), composed for the Washington State University faculty jazz ensemble to perform as soloists with the WSU Wind Ensemble, and his jazz ballad Missing You, which has been scored for a variety of combinations including traditional jazz combo, solo saxophone with string quartet, and big band.

Gregory W. Yasinitsky, Regents Professor of Music and Director of the School of Music at Washington State University, has an international reputation as a composer, arranger and saxophonist. A recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer West, The Commission Project, Artist Trust, Washington State Music Teachers Association (WSMTA) and ASCAP, Yasinitsky has performed with Randy Brecker, Sean Jones, Ed Calle, Alex Acuna, Kirk Whalum, Claudio Roditi, Conrad Herwig, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Louis Bellson, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Manhattan Transfer, and many others.

Eighth graders from Catharine Blaine have been producing Magnolia Memory Keepers, a story of Magnolia history based on interviews with community members; Broadview Thomson sixth graders transformed their original myths into audio theater with fire-spewing dragons, an ice goddess, and a magical golden apple tree.

Vietnamese high school students from the Seattle World School are completing the second year of Poetry Moments, an anthology and CD of their writing. Isabelle Bank, our intern from Seattle Academy of Arts and Science, is getting ready to record her story of Kim Hua Thao, the SWS teacher who works with the Vietnamese students. Our second group of Seattle World School students from many different countries is doing their final writing and rehearsing on Friday (today!) before their recording on June 5th.

This month we also finished up Immigration Portraits, a series of radio features by Denny International Middle School eighth graders that present the immigration stories of some of their diverse school staff, who came to America from Kuwait, El Salvador, Eritrea, and many other countries. Look for this series this summer on KBCS!

Looking toward the summer, planning is underway for a project with music students from Hamlin Robins School, our summer programs for blind and visually impaired youth of all ages, and Radio Theater International, a new project with World Art Access (World Arts Access is now accepting applications for Radio Theater International from youth ages 17-25).