Several readings are from the book:
Cox, Christoph, and Daniel Warner, eds. Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. London, UK: Continuum International, 2004. ISBN: 0826416152.
Course readings.
| LEC # |
TOPICS |
READINGS |
| 1 |
Art of Noises |
120 Years of Electronic Music: Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 - 1990 |
| 2 |
What is Radical Music?
Noise and Reproducibility |
Russolo. "Art of Noises." In Audio Culture.
Marinetti, F. T. "Futurist Manifesto."
Benjamin, W. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
Chanan, M. "Record Culture." In Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and Its Effects on Music. San Francisco, CA: Analytical Psychology Club of San Fransico, Inc., 1995. ISBN: 1859840124.
Dub Music |
| 3 |
Electronic Indeterminacy, Tape Loops: John Cage, Lee Scratch Perry |
Cage, John. "Compositional as Process: Indeterminacy." In Audio Culture.
Eshun, K. "Inner Spatializing the Song." In More Brilliant than the Sun. London, UK: Quartet Books, 1998. ISBN: 0704380250.
Davis, Erik. "Dub, Scratch, and the Black Star." |
| 4 |
Sample Culture: RZA, DJ Spooky
Discussion of Collage Culture and Music Concrète
In-class: Show and Tell-bring a Record into Class and Sample a Section to be Included in Your Sound Collage |
Miller, Paul D. "Algorithms: Erasures and the Art of Memory." In Audio Culture.
Pierre Schaeffer
Tim Hodkinson's 1986 Interview with Pierre Schaeffer
Marshall, Wayne. "shocklee is a prophet and i think you oughta listen." Blog Entry, September 15, 2005.
Podcasting |
| 5 |
Analogue Synthesis (Guest Speaker: Joe Paradiso) |
Paradiso, Joe. "Modular Synthesizer." In Timeshift (Proceedings of Ars Electronica 2004). Edited by G. Stocker and C. Schopf. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004, pp. 364-370. (PDF - 3.7 MB)
Joe Paradiso's Page
Harrison, Nate. "Bassline Baseline." Video, 2005.
Drum Machine |
| 6 |
Sound Tracking: Spatial and Visual Music
One-bit Synthesis (Guest Speaker: Noah Vawter) |
Oliveros, Pauline. "Quantum Listening."
Eno, Brian. "Ambient Music." In Audio Culture.
Vawter, Noah. "One-Bit Oscillator Design." Presented at 2005 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. New Paltz, NY, October 16-19, 2005. |
| 7 |
Radio Training Session |
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| 8 |
Lab Session on Computer Music Technique
Beauty of Speed
View: Come to Daddy, Windowlicker, Aphex Twin/Chris Cunningham |
Hardcore | Breakbeat | Jungle | Drum'n'Bass | Garage | Grime | Dubstep | Ragga Jungle | Garage/2step | Grime/Dubstep |
| 9 |
Beauty of Speed (cont.)
Surround Systems and Generative Sound |
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| 10 |
Field Trip |
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| 11 |
Final Project Presentations |
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| 12 |
Final Project Presentations (cont.) |
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