| Week | date | Theme / Lecture | Assignments |
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| 1 | 05/09/07 |
Orientation week class cancelled |
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| 2 | 12/09/07 |
definitions of sonic art |
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| 3 | 19/09/07 |
noise/silence – foreground, background, peripheral listening (Russolo, Cage, Disinformation, Merzbow, Drever)
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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
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| 5 | 03/10/07 |
musique concrete, acousmatic listening and reduced listening (Schaeffer, Smalley, Harrison, Lewis, Wishart, Lopez) |
keyword presentation: Iven Cheng [filtration] |
| 6 | 10/10/07 |
studio session on recording
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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.) |
final work proposal due keyword presentation:Chan Wai Lun Frankie [drone] |
| 8 | 24/10/07 |
electronische musik, determination, algorithm (Stockhausen, Tenney) |
keyword presentation:Dan Fong Hiu Tan [metamorphosis] |
| 9 | 31/10/07 |
chance – fluxus, open work (Cage, Tudor, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Stockhausen) |
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) |
keyword presentation:Gao Ning Giggle [imitation] |
| 11 | 14/11/07 |
repetition – minimalism, drone (Reich, Palestine, etc.) micro-macro (Roads, Xenakis, Finer, Ligo) |
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| 12 | 21/11/07 |
plunderphonics – (John Oswald, Negativland, Feld) |
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| 13 | 28/11/07 |
audio-vision – (Chion, Oram, Ruttman) |
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