Audio
Audio Studio Used for Special Projects
Two special recording projects were completed over the Winter break, using the Mackie digital audio equipment in the Communication Department's sound studios in Savage Theater Arts Building.
Sharon Osorio Mentkowski, a part-time speech lecturer with the department, produced an audio series, "Spanish Especially for You." The project is aimed at igniting an interest in learning Spanish among young children when their brains are ripe for absorbing language knowledge. "Spanish Especially for You" creates a personalized, customized, audio CD that incorporates the young person's name.
Mentkowski is co-owner of her production company, Language Especially for You," a 100% minority- and women-owned company that produces language CDs for preschools and day care programs. Mentkowski can be reached as mentkosm@buffalostate.edu
In a second project produced through the Communication Department facilities, Joshua Smith, a Buffalo State graduate now studying at the University of Osaka graduate school, recorded an album of music on the shakuhacki, the traditional Japanese bamboo flute. Smith's studies in sociology focus on the role of the shakuhachi instrument and traditional music in Japanese cultural identity. Smith can be reached at sumisujoshu@hotmail.com.
The music was requested by another part-time Communication instructor, Wendy Lasker. She was considering the possibility of incorporating some of the music into an original sound score that she produced for a theatrical reading of scenes from the movie Apocalypse Now. Morphine Hearts Productions presented the theatrical premiere of "The End" in January through the Adam Mickiewicz Drama Circle in Buffalo. Lasker can be reached at wlasker@aol.com.
(Spring 2006)