Art Soundoff is an art journaling micro podcast challenge. 

Why journal about our art? Reflection via journaling feeds into our process of making and sharing art. Reflection helps us investigate and build new insights into our craft and how we tell others about it.

Why frame it as a creative challenge? Scheduling a special event makes it a shared experience. The challenge part of that can be appealing for anyone looking for a nudge toward trying. How you make #artsoundoff work for you is up to you! Join for the whole month, follow along with others, drop a bundle of posts all at once like a certain other inspiring art journal did earlier this year. It’s up to you! 

Interested in taking the challenge with us?

1) Record a 5-10 minute audio journal. Consider as a topic option one of the 30 daily prompts listed below or any reflection on your art day.

2) Choose to post your recording or not, either way you’re still journaling. If you do share on your platform of choice please use the hashtags #artsoundoff #artsoundoff2019. 

3) Explore what others are sharing. See what’s happening related to #artsoundoff on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitch, Audioboom, and Anchor.

Recording Resources

There’s an abundance of tools out there What we care most about is celebrating journaling about art with you.

How do you record and what equipment do you use? It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Many of the TPD and Polytechnicast episodes were recorded on smartphones. Your laptop or desktop computer's internal microphone is sufficient to record a microcast. Audio quality is fine--but it's the content that really matters, here.

Audacity is a free recording application for Mac/Windows/Linux.

Soundcloud is a service that enables you to record and share your audio from within a web browser.

AudioBoom (formerly Audioboo) is a free service that enables you to record and share 5-minute recordings from the desktop or your phone.

Anchor is another free service for recording and publishing podcasts.

There are also tons of free (and premium) recording apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Another option is direct streaming and recording via Twitch, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, and more are out there. Who knows, a media publishing platform was probably born as I type this! 

Good luck and art journaling!

Remember to follow along on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitch, Audioboom, and Anchor!