WEEKS 4-6 THE NATURAL

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), 1890

Week 4-6 (9/12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28)
Natural Sound

4Tues: Transcendentalism (W), Burroughs (W), Whitman (W), Thoreau (W)
4Thurs: Personal Walden – Listening to Natural Sound, Field Writing (Essay 2)

5Tues: Fuller (W), Westerkamp (W) - Hearing Difference;
Sound Survey Results
5Thurs: Show/Listen2

6Tues: Steven Feld (W), Murray Schaffer (7), Mark Slouka (8)
6Thurs: Listening to The Naturalist Realm (Earth Ear), Vancouver Soundscape

Text Readings
1. Chapter 7: “The Music of the Environment” by Murray Schaffer, p. 29
2. Chapter 8: “Listening for Silence: Notes on the Aural Life” by Mark Slouka, p. 40

Web Readings
3. On Soundscapes (Quotes)
http://www.earthear.com/about/onsoundscapes.html
4. Transcendentalism http://www.transcendentalists.com/what.htm
5. John Burroughs – Falling Leaves, 1921
http://www.johnburroughs.org/works/seasons/leaves.htm
(accompanying notes)
http://www.johnburroughs.org/works/seasons/autumn.htm
6. Walt Whitman Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/roots/legacy/whitman/preface1855.html
7. Go to “Sounds” in Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 1854 http://www.transcendentalists.com/1thorea.html
8. Sarah Margaret Fuller - Chapter 1: “Niagara, June 10, 1843” in Summer on the Lakes, 1843 http://courses.washington.edu/hum523/fuller/Clear/CH1.shtml
9. Steven Feld, “The Sound World of Bosavi”http://www.acousticecology.org/edu/educurrbosavi.html

In Class Listening

1. Natural Sounds
http://www.naturalsounds.org/listen.html

2. Earth Ear Sound Gallery
http://www.earthear.com/catalog/nature.html
http://www.earthear.com/catalog/rainsoundwalks.html (Feld)

3. Khan’s Song (and photos) (short clips)
http://www.hearingvoices.com/works/chance/mongol/index.html

4. Rainbow Gatherings (10 minutes)
http://www.hearingvoices.com/bg/rainbow/index.html

5. Murray Schafer (About/Interview) – Music Behind Walls (3 min)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Murray_Schafer
Patria (read) http://www.patria.org/pmtp/index.html

6. Patria (listen)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000HX64/202-3897135-7293437

7. Hildegard Westerkamp (About)
http://www.emf.org/artists/mccartney00/index.html
http://www.earthear.com/catalog/profiles/westerkamp.html
8. Hildegard Westerkamp – Living Sounds (Interview) (3 min)
http://paulagordon.com/shows/westerkamp/

9. Moments of Laughter (19 min)
http://www.emf.org/artists/mccartney00/moments.html

10. Hildegard Westerkamp Web site
http://www.sfu.ca/~westerka/

Additional Readings
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson Transcendentalism
http://www.transcendentalists.com/self_reliance_analysis.htm
2. Burroughs Bio and Resources
http://www.johnburroughs.org/bio/bio.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burroughs
http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/burroughs/apprec.html
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/disciples/burroughs/biography.html
Burrough Resources http://www.wakerobin.org/pages/Links.htm
3. Walt Whitman Bio and Resources
Reading of America
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/audio/
Leaves of Grass Excerpt
http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Walt_Whitman/walt_whitman_leaves_of_grass_book_21.htm Biography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman
Songs of Myself http://www.searls.com/whitman.html

Related Web Sites
1. Living on Earth
http://www.loe.org/

2. Environmental Sounds and Processes (history/context)
www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/resources/soundscapes/ENVIRONS.HTM

3. Worldscape Project
http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html
Also see: World Forum of Acoustic Ecology http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/home/index.html

4. 1st Conf. Acoustics and Animals
http://asa.aip.org/communication.html