Week 1 (5/12-5/16) Noise

Music has always inhabited the space between nature and technology; intuition and artifice. It is said to be rooted in the heartbeat and the voice, but it is no less bound up with the history of the machine.
- “Music in the Age of Electronic (Re)production,” p. 113

“‘The present-day composer refuses to die...’ Edgard Varese”- Frank Zappa

Negotiated Sound Spaces: Noise
Mon: Introduction – Sound Survey
Tues: Hearing is Believing (W), Audio Perception (W), Hearing & Perception (W)
Wed: Jacques Attali (1), Luigi/Antonio Russolo (2), Edgard Varese (4)
Thurs: Henry Cowell (5), John Cage (6), Russo/Warner (9), Simon Reynolds (10)
Show and Listen Day1
Fri: Listening Exercise – Field Writing on Noise (Essay 1)

10-Day Journal: daily entries of sound observations must be completed before the end of Week 3. Write legibly.

Adam's: 10-15 minutes per week of music listening; if you wish to bring in music talk to Adam.

Text Readings
Chapter 1: “Noise and Politics” by Jacques Attali, p. 7
Also see: Attali Interview at http://www.sinologic.com/newmusic/sub/attali.html
Chapter 2: “The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto” by Luigi Russolo, p. 10
Chapter 4: “The Liberation of Sound” by Edgard Varese, p. 17
Chapter 5: “The Joys of Noise” by Henry Cowell, p. 22
Chapter 6: “The Future of Music; Credo” by John Cage, p. 25
Chapter 9: “Rough Music, Futurism, and Postpunk Industrial Noise Bands” by Mary Russo & Daniel Warner, p. 47
Chapter 10: “Noise” by Simon Reynolds, p. 55

Web Readings
Hearing is believing
www.kent.ac.uk/sdfva/sound-journal/thorn981.html
Audio Perception and Sound
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sdfva/sound-journal/forrester001.html
Hearing and Perception
http://arts.ucsc.edu/ems/music/tech_background/TE-03/teces_03.html

In Class Listening:
1. radio art/deep wireless
http://www.soundtravels.ca/
2. John Cage http://www.hearingvoices.com/cage.htmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/cage.shtmlhttp://interglacial.com/~sburke/stuff/cage_433.html
Cage’s Choir of Angels (slow link)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B000002W0S001003/1/ref=mu_sam_ra001_003/102-1710202-8905710
3. Dada Movement - Luigi Russolo, Art of Noise (Futurist Manifestos)http://www.ubu.com/sound/dada.html
Additional Readings
1. The Futurist Manifesto, F. T. Marinetti, 1909
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html
2. Futurism
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/
3. Luigi Russolo’s Art of Noises
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/noises.html
4. Attali Interview
http://www.sinologic.com/newmusic/sub/attali.html
5. Ferruccio Busoni
http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/busoni.html
5. Edgard Varese
http://www.zakros.com/mica/soundart/f02/varese.html
You TUBE - http://youtube.com/watch?v=a9mg4KHqRPw
6. Frank Zappa on Edgard Varese
http://home.online.no/~corneliu/edgard_varese.htm
7. International Bioacoustics Council (IBAC)
http://www.ibac.info/links.html
8. Information Transfer in Noisy Channels (Penguins)
http://www.cb.u-psud.fr/page6.html

Related Web Sites
1. Sound Terminology
http://www.zakros.com/mica/soundart/f02/glossary.html
2. Edison –Phonograph Invention
http://www.tinfoil.com/edison.htm
3. Two Essays:
10 hours of Sound from (1) France (Listen)
(2) Australia - Variable Resistance; Jacques Attaili
http://crossfade.walkerart.org/
4. Luigi Russolo
http://www.zakros.com/mica/soundart/f02/futurist.html
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/futurist/
Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Russolo
5. David Tudor Interview (John Cage)
http://www.emf.org/tudor/Articles/hultberg.html
Listening - Rainforest
6. City Noise Report
http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/970513/citynoisereport/
7. Cities crack down on noise
http://www.acousticecology.org/urban.html
8. Military Use of Silent Sound
http://www.raven1.net/silsoun2.htm
9. Ultra Sound Physics (PPT)
http://www.sci.port.ac.uk/MH/
10. Subliminal Recorder
http://subliminalrecorder.com/


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