Week 2 (5/19-5/23): Natural Sound

Mon: Transcendentalism (W) and Thoreau (W); Listening to The Naturalist Realm (Earth Ear), Vancouver Soundscape
Tuesday: Fuller (W), Westerkamp (W) - Hearing Difference, Results of Sound Survey
Wed: Show and Listen Day2
Thur: Steven Feld (W), Murray Schaffer (7), Mark Slouka (8)
Friday: Personal Walden – Listening to Natural Sound, Field Writing (Essay 2)

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

Web ReadingsOn Soundscapes (Quotes)
http://www.earthear.com/about/onsoundscapes.html
Transcendentalism
http://www.transcendentalists.com/what.htm
Go to “Sounds” in Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 1854 http://www.transcendentalists.com/1thorea.html
Sarah Margaret Fuller - Chapter 1: “ Niagara, June 10, 1843” Summer on the Lakes, 1843 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11526/11526-h/11526-h.htm
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.htmlhttp://www.earthear.com/catalog/profiles/westerkamp.html8. 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/

Related Web Sites
1. Living on Earth
http://www.loe.org/
3. Worldscape Project
http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html
Also see: World Forum of Acoustic Ecology http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/home/
4. 1st Conf. Acoustics and Animals
http://asa.aip.org/communication.html


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