On Tuesday and Thursday, you’ll do a series of targeted workshops activities in your groups. I’m going to describe what I’ll ask you to do for Tuesday. Keep this in mind as you read and examine the infographics posted by your group members.
Note: If you click on “Infographics” in the menu on the right, you should get a page with everything posted.
Okay, here goes. You’ll address each of these prompts as a group when discussing each infographic:
- What stands out to you as strongest or most promising about the infographic—and the accompanying explanation of what it reveals?
- The main question: What does the infographic show you that you didn’t realize you were hearing otherwise? What does it reveal about the song or artist? As Kyle Venhemert writes about Alexander Chen’s infographic about the harmonies in The Beach Boys’s “God Only Knows,” “it shows you things you didn’t even realize you were hearing.” Do your infographics do a version of this? If they are not visualizing sound, then what do they show you that you didn’t realize about some other aspect of the artist? What do they reveal about the artist’s music?
- Do the visual elements of the infographic make meaning? Are they more than decorative? How might they be revised so that they do more work to create meaning?
- What are two or three takeaways from the infographic? What did you learn from it?
- What questions do you have for me when I visit your group? Try to be specific.
This is it for Tuesday. We’ll dig into other elements on Thursday.
