editorial introduction: C&C Online
citation
Ball, Cheryl E., & Hawk, Byron. (2006). sound+composition+space [Quicktime]. C&C Online. [Special issue: Sound]. http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/sound/.
abstract
This mash-up of video and audio pieces serves as an introduction to the special issue on sound. Like a traditional “letter from the guest editors,” in which editors contextualize and provide abtracts of the articles in a special issue, this mash-up provides “abstracts” of video and audio that are included in the authors’ texts, thereby contextualizing them by juxtaposing the multiple modes of communication in one text. By splicing samples together (a la the hip hop tradition) from the 14 authors’ pieces, this introduction enacts the performative, aesthetic qualities that the authors articulate are necessary to composition studies in the 21st century. From visual and aural noise at the beginning of the intro, the editors move into an argument for including sound as part of digital writing’s compositional space — that sampling, voiceovers, cut-ups, and other oral/aural considerations can take us into what happens next in writing studies.
co-editor
Byron Hawk is Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University.
contribution
90% authoring/designing of 3-minute multimedia video
accompanying materials
video introduction [requires Quicktime; 37 mb - recommend downloading video to desktop before viewing]