Sound Art 131   -   Schedule

Schedule may change based on class needs - Check regularly for updates.

Readings and project assignments will be given in class. (readings will be more concentrated towards beginning of quarter, sound studies afterwards).

THE BASICS

Mon.Sept. 21      

•  Presentation of syllabus (welcome: http://www.sr.se/p1/Src/sing/)

•  Sound, Description & Identification (Russolo / Chion / Hess /Sonami)

•  Assignment 1

Wed. Sept.23

•  Lab Orientation (Elisabeth): Explanation of check-out   procedures

•  Listening exercice (Note:was postponed to later, when we will be going over the sound and sites part of the curriculum)

•  Downloading sounds from the internet - sites / recording audio from computer using Wiretap-pro

•  Digital Audio Overview (read pdf if you would like more detailed info)

Early Beginnings: Russolo, Ruttman, Schaeffer, Cage ..

•  Assignment 2

Mon. Sept 28                  

• (There will be some LAB TIME to let you work with assistance on Assignment 2 !!)
• Discussion of readings (ass. 1)
• What is sound? The ear & Memory (some references here and here , here and there - all from David Worrall) - For Memory, refer to Bob Snyder's excerpts distributed in class. An example of auditory illusion.
• Digital Formats / Basic editing / Mixing /Processing ct'd (Amadeus - WirePro)
• Assignment 3

Wed. Sept 30     

•  Microphone presentation (Elisabeth)

•  "Students bring it to the table" (ass.2)

•  Assignment 4

SOUND & SITES

Mon. Oct. 5        

•  Presentation of Assignments 2 cont'd (please drop your sound files in class folder)

• Discussion of Readings (ass.3) postponed to mon.12

•  Sound & Sites: Schafer, Kubisch, Westerkamp, Ferrari, Fontana...

Wed. Oct 7       

• Exploratorium Field Trip Assignment 5 - We will meet at 1pm at the Exploratorium, make sure you bring your recorders and headphones.

Mon, Oct 12       

•  Sound & Sites c'td: - Presentation of students' Soundwalks (ass.4)

• Discussion of Readings (ass.3)

•  Sound & Sites: VLF recordings (AlvinLucier, Joyce Hinderting), Sounding buildings (David Byrne ..), Perceptual Geography (Maryanne Amacher) & Imaginary Spaces (Eliane Radigue)

Wed. Oct 14       

• Guest Artist: Trimpin in Terry Berlier' s class (AR6 - Sculpture lab)

Mon Oct 19        

•  Jacqueline Gordon discusses her work.

•  Wobbly presents a short history of sampling.

• ass 5B (reading)

Wed. Oct 21      

•  Catch up! (Finish listening to Assignments 4 & Complete Sound & Sites section of syllabus)

SOUND & OBJECTS

Mon, Oct 26      

•  If you would like to learn how to solder piezos, cables and small amps, come before class at noon @ lab.
• Listen to these excerpts before class (closes off the Sound and Site portion of the Syllabus)
• Intro to Soundtrack Pro - Using the piezo transducer as source material.
• Objects as speakers (piezo and rolenstar)

Wed. Oct 28       

• Lab time: using the piezo in Soundtrack Pro as source material - Editing / processing / multitracking...
• Exploring sound propagation with the Rolenstar and piezo (piezo resonator schematics here)
• Sound & Objects: Baschet, Paul DeMarinis, Arthur Ganson, Percy Grainger, Barney Haynes, Kanta Horio, Brad Hwang, Matt Heckert, Jones, Bernie Lubell, Gordon Monahan, Harry Partch, Jean Tinguely, David Tudor...
• Assignment(s) 6
• I will be there both before and after class, to help with soldering, and/or go over software.

Mon Nov 1        

• A short intro to Ableton Live.
• Presentation of Piezo assignments (ass.6).

SOUND & THE BODY

Wed. Nov 4        

•  The voice - Physiology, Sense and Sounds:   Appolinaire, Robert Ashley, Chris Mann, Diamanda Galas (some audio here), Demarinis, L. Sonami - Ass.7 (reading)

Mon. Nov 9        

•  Discussion of Readings (ass.7)

•  Wearables: Sound & Body, Current Technologies (Fashion, Maubray, Stelarc...)

•  Discussion of Final project

Wed. Nov 11      

• Ableton Live Intro ct'd
• Catch up

Mon Nov 16        

• Ass.8
•  Presentation of Project Outlines
• Catch up

Wed. Nov 18      

•  Intro to Max-MSP / Unusual Interfaces: Sonami demo

Mon Nov 23-27 Thanksgiving break      

Mon. Nov 30    Laetitia will be in Lab all day to help with final project    

• Presentation of Project to Class
• Lab time to work on final project

Wed. Dec 2 nd      

•  Last day of class:  INSTALLATION & PRESENTATION OF FINAL PROJECTS

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Class readings   will be excerpted from :

Arcana III (Amacher , Sonami)

Attali, Jacques (1985), Noise,   Minneapolis: the University of Minnesota Press

Chion, Michel (1990), Audio-Vision , NY: Columbia University Press

Contemporary Music Review, Aesthetics of Live Electronic Music, Harwood Academic Publishers

Emerson, Simon   (2007),   Living Electronic Music, Aldershot: Ashgate

Levitin, Daniel   (2006), This is your brain on Music , NY: Penguin Books

Nancy, Jean-Luc (2007),   Listening,   NY: Fordham University Press

Snyder, Bob   (2000), Music and Memory , Cambridge: MIT Press

Schafer, R. Murray (1977), The Soundscape, NY: Knopf

available in class and/or on   class website