WEEK 12-15 Digital Sound Culture
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite." - Thomas Carlyle
Weeks 12-15 (11/7, 9, 14, 16, 28, 30, 12/4, 6)
Digital Sound Culture
12Tues: Brian Eno (17), David Toop (36, 51), Paul Miller (W)
12Thurs: Listening Day (talk to Josh if you wish to bring in music)
13Tues: Rap, Techno, and Digital Culture: Susan McClary (41), George Lewis (40)
13Thurs: Listening Day – Music; Show and Listen Day4
Due: Week 13 Notebook! With Final Essay (4)
14Tues: Thanksgiving Break
14Thurs: Thanksgiving Break
15Thurs: Stereo Forest (read Soundscape Essay)
15Thurs: Winter Walk Listening/Recording Day
16Finals Week – Scavenger Hunt Presentations
Text
Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_music
Also see: new ambient music at http://www.backroadsmusic.com/catalog/ambient/ambientnotes.htm
2. Chapter 36: Generation Game: Experimental Music/Digital Culture by David Troop, 239
3. Chapter 51: Replicant: On Dub by David Troop, 355
4. Chapter 41: Rap, Minimalism & Structures of Time in Late 20th-Century Culture by Susan McClary, p. 239
5. Chapter 40: Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives by George E. Lewis, p. 272
Web Readings
6. “Loops of Perception” by Paul Miller (DJ Spooky)http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/remix.php?is=8&art=0&file=3&tlang=0%0Dhttp://www.djspooky.com/articles.html
Additional
Chapter 32: Towards (a Definition of) Experimental Music by Michael Nyman, p. 209
Chapter 33: Introduction to Themes and Variation by John Cage, p. 176
Minimalisms, p. 287
Chapter 46: Minimalism in House and Techno by Philip Sherburne, p. 319
David Toop http://www.davidtoop.com
David Toop (interview)
http://www.furious.com/perfect/toop.html
David Toop (Wiki)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Toop
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1852427434/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-3730183-7826245#reader-page
Rap Attack 3 (Book Excerpt, 1999)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader/103-2001630-2845419?%5Fencoding=UTF8&pageID=S00B&asin=1852426276
Other Links
Leonardo Music Journal
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/lmj/sound.html
Organised Sound
http://journals.cambridge.org/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=0&500005REQSUB=&REQSTR1=OrganisedSound/Vol05No03
Live Sound
http://www.livesoundint.com/
Physics of Ultra Sound
http://www2.umdnj.edu/~shindler/physics.html
**FURTHER COURSE READINGS**
Acoustic Ecology- The Soundscape Bibliography
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/acousticecologybib.html
Acoustic Communication and Soundscape Research,
Sound Culture
http://www.soundculture.org/texts.html
Shaun Davies
Lost in Space: Adventures in Australian Sound Art
Frances Dyson
A Philosophonics of Space
Circuits of the Voice: From Cosmology to Telephony
Tadahiko Imada
The Japanese Sound Culture
Douglas Kahn
Eisenstein and Cartoon Sound
Audio Art in the Deaf Century
Dan Lander
Introduction to Sound By Artists
Thomas Y. Levin
Before the Beep: A Short History of Voice Mail
Virginia Madsen
Notes Towards Sound Ecology in the Garden of Listening
John Potts
Schizochronia: Time in Digital Sound
Larry Wendt
Narrative as Genealogy: Sound Sense in a Hypertext Age
Nicholas Zurbrugg
Sound art, radio art,and post-radio performance in Australia
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Semester End Suggestions
Butterflies, Angels, and Lullabies
Amazon.com, Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music Special Edition
Bye, Bye Butterfly, Pauline Oliveros
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B000BDGVX6002003/1/ref=mu_sam_ra002_003/102-1710202-8905710
John Cage, Choir of Angels
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B000002W0S001003/1/ref=mu_sam_ra001_003/102-1710202-8905710
Josh Gumiela, Oxide Lullabies
http://www.futurekomp.net
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