Week 4 (6/2-6/6): Digital Sound Culture

Mon: Brian Eno (17), David Toop (36, 51), Paul Miller (W)
Tues: Rap, Techno, and Digital Culture: Susan McClary (41), George Lewis (40)
Wed: Scavenger Hunt Presentations
Thurs: Scavenger Hunt Presentations
Fri: Final – Essay 4

Text Readings
Chapter 17: “Ambient Music” by Brian Eno p. 94
Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_music
Chapter 36: “Generation Game: Experimental Music/Digital Culture” by David Troop, 239
Chapter 51: “Replicant: On Dub” by David Troop, 355
Chapter 41: “Rap, Minimalism & Structures of Time in Late 20th-Century Culture” by Susan McClary, p. 239
Chapter 40: Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives by George E. Lewis, p. 272

Web Readings :“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 Readings
1. “Experimental Musics,” p. 207
2. Chapter 32: “Towards (a Definition of) Experimental Music by Michael Nyman, p. 209
3. Chapter 33: Introduction to Themes and Variation by John Cage,” p. 176
4. “Minimalisms,” p. 287
5. Chapter 46: “Minimalism in House and Techno” by Philip Sherburne, p. 319
6. David Toop
http://www.davidtoop.com/
http://music.aol.com/artist/david-toop/21074/biography
7. David Toop (interview) Rap Attack 3, 1999
http://www.furious.com/perfect/toop.html
8. David Toop (Wiki)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Toop
9. Ocean of Sound (Book Excerpt, 1996)http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1852427434/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-3730183-7826245#reader-page