WEEK 7-11: RECONSTRUCTING SOUND

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems." - Arthur O'Shaunessey

Weeks 7-11 (10/3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26, 31, 11/2)
Reconstruction - Soundwalks & Moonwalks

7Tues: Marshall McLuhan (12), Lopez (15), Pierre Schaeffer (14)
7Thurs: Soundwalk – Essay 3/Map

8Tues: Janet Cardiff, Ian Chambers (18) and other Soundwalkers
8Thurs: Soundwalk – Essay3 /Map

9Tues: Soundwalk – Reconstruct as Class
9Thurs: Soundwalk – Reconstruct as Class

10Tues: Route 66 – Reconstructing Memory & History, Road Music!*
10Thurs: Road Trip Essay 4/Map
*Talk to Josh if you would like to bring in some road music

11Tues: 11Tues: Reconstructing Sound – Film & Radio, Tesla’s Lounge
11Thurs: Sci Fi Sounds – Show/Listen3

Text Readings
1. “Modes of Listening,” p. 65
2. Chapter 12: “Visual and Acoustic Space” by Marshall McLuhan, p. 67
3. Chapter 15: “Profound Listening and Environmental Sound Matter” Francisco Lopez, p. 82
4. Chapter 14: “Acousmatics” by Pierre Schaffer, p. 76
5. Chapter 18: "The Aural Walk" by Iain Chambers p. 98

Web Readings
6. Janet Cardiff
Audio Walk in Central Park
http://publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/05/cardiff/cardiff-05.html
Bomb Magazine article
http://www.bombmagazine.com/cardiff/cardiff.html
5. Road Sounds (Listen) http://www.yorku.ca/dws/arrm/arrm.html
6. Route 66 – Memories and History
http://www.national66.org/66hstry.html
http://www.route66.com/66History.html
(slide show) http://www.historic66.com
7. Tesla’s Lounge (Raymond Scott, Bob Moog, etc.)
http://transonicmission.blogspot.com/ (Go to links on this page)

In Class Listening
1. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (movie trailer)http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy/trailer_3/
2. BBC Hitchhiker
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/dirk.shtml
3. Sleep Ambience
http://www.sleepbot.com/ambience/broadcast
4. Tangerine Dream
http://www.tangerinedream.org/

Related Web Sites
1. Janet Cardiff
Audio Walk in Central Park
http://publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/05/cardiff/cardiff-05.html
Bomb Magazine article
http://www.bombmagazine.com/cardiff/cardiff.html

2. NYC Soundwalk http://www.soundwalk.com

3. Sound Artists Online
http://www.earthear.com/about/artistsites.html

4. Sonic City (Mobile Wearable Sound)
http://www.tii.se/reform/projects/pps/soniccity/index.html

5. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/movienews/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker

6. Audio Theater
http://www.audiotheater.com/

7. Science Fiction on Radio
http://www.otr.com/sf.html

8. 2001 Space Odyssey
http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/video_detail/2001/

9. Mental Radio and Upton Sinclair
http://www.espresearch.com/mentalradio/

10. Sightings
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/ufoill.htm

11. National UFO Reporting Center
http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxlIL.html
http://www.freedomofinfo.org/media/UFOsightingbringsmediaattention.pdf#search=%27Southern%20Illinois%20and%20UFO'

12. Prometheus Radio
http://www.prometheusradio.org/