Week date Theme / Lecture Assignments
1
05/09/07

Orientation week class cancelled

 

2
12/09/07

definitions of sonic art

[sonic terminology notes]

 

 

3
19/09/07
noise/silence – foreground, background, peripheral listening (Russolo, Cage, Disinformation, Merzbow, Drever)

 

[noise/silence notes]

ASSIGNED READINGS: John Cage, John Cage, "The Future of Music: Credo" (1937); "Experimental Music" (1957); "Experimental Music: Doctrine" (1955) from The Book Silence (available at SCM counter or from eletronic librairy

keyword presentation:kiki (cocktail)

4
26/09/07
no class (public holidays)

listening diary: download instructions

 

 

5
03/10/07

musique concrete, acousmatic listening and reduced listening (Schaeffer, Smalley, Harrison, Lewis, Wishart, Lopez)

[sound-effect / sound object notes]

keyword presentation: Iven Cheng [filtration]
6
10/10/07
studio session on recording
[download audio files .zip 221MB]

bring an object for sonic exploration and recording.

keyword presentation:Watoto Lu Ying jie [cut out]

7
17/10/07

soundscapes – acoustic ecology(terminology)/ acoustemology/ soundwalks/ phonography (Westerkamp, Schafer, Ferrari, Krause, Feld, Drever, et al.)

[soundscape notes]

final work proposal due

keyword presentation:Chan Wai Lun Frankie [drone]

8
24/10/07

electronische musik, determination, algorithm (Stockhausen, Tenney)

[determination notes]

keyword presentation:Dan Fong Hiu Tan [metamorphosis]
9
31/10/07

chance –  fluxus, open work (Cage, Tudor, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Stockhausen)

[Open work notes]

composition due (presentation in class)

keyword presentation:Zhang Lu [mask]

10
07/11/07

utterance – phonetics/concrete poetry/ sound poetry/ text sound composition (Marinetti, Schwitters, Burroughs, Chopin, Cobbing, Reich, Goebbels  Upton)

[utterance notes]

keyword presentation:Gao Ning Giggle [imitation]

11
14/11/07

repetition – minimalism, drone (Reich, Palestine, etc.)

micro-macro (Roads, Xenakis, Finer, Ligo)

keyword presentation:
12
21/11/07
plunderphonics – (John Oswald, Negativland, Feld)
keyword presentation:
13
28/11/07
audio-vision – (Chion, Oram, Ruttman)
 
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