Jan 26 / 28 - Introduction and History

monday
Course introduction / description, logistics (lab tour, web space, blog)
Intro to critical listening

Once you are sure you will be taking the class please do the following:

• fill out this questionnaire * this needs to be done by 10am on 1/28
• have / get a web space. If you already have a space, please send me the url (the specific URL for your page for this class). If you don't, you can get one from ITS. The specific info is here. Send this request in now, as we will need web access soon.
• join the course blog. To post, you will need to get a user name by joining word press here (click on 'sign up now' you do not need to make a new blog, just get a username). Then email me the email address you used while joining wordpress, and I will give you editorial access. Then you can log into our course blog and post, create categories, make links, and so on... There is a good wordpress faq here. You will need to post to the blog prior to class on the feb 2nd.

wednesday
brief history of sonic / sound art
read: Gibbs, Origins and Developments (pdf)
browse: additional references for this article are here
browse: this timeline (pdf)
intro to acoustics and digitization / file types
read: sound and digitization (pdf)

Feb 2 / 4 - Music and its Others: (New) Approaches to Sound Making

monday
read: Cage, The Future of Music
read: Cage, Experimental Music (pdf)
browse: Russolo, The Art of Noises info, ( read the conclusions)
watch / listen: to these materials
browse: web tutorials, as needed
tech: web intro + intro to sound recording

wednesday
Kahn, The Sound of Music (pdf)
listen: to these materials
more acoustics / psychoacoustics
overview of software tools + web tutorial

Feb 9 / 11 - Acoustic Ecology and Soundscape Composition

monday
read: Wrightson, Intro to Acoustic Ecology (pdf)
read / do: this exercise by Pauline Oliveros - please post to the blog about your experience
browse: additional references for this weeks readings are here
basics of sound perception
more recording techniques + audio editing / file types
project 1A due on line

wednesday
read: Truax, Soundscape Composition (pdf)
listen: to these materials
Sound editing, layering, and mixing

Feb 16 / 18 - Acoustic Ecology, Third Generation

monday
read: Dunn, Acoustic Ecology and the Experimental Music Tradition
write: reading response to Dunn article - send to me by 2/16 - 10am
tech: mixing, automation, and production + export + open studio time

wednesday
no class - rally day

Feb 23 / 25 - Sound Transformation and Compositional Process

monday
project 1B critique: soundscape

wednesday
read: Lucier, Every Room has its Own Melody (pdf)
read: Reich, Music as a Gradual Process (pdf)
listen: to these materials
Introduction to sound processing and de / reconstruction

Mar 2 / 4 - Compositional Process and Sound Programming

monday
read: Toop, The Generation Game: Experimental Music and Digital Culture (pdf)
optional: read max/msp tutorial (from EM) or browse max/msp documentation (cycling 74)
optional: check out soundhack
intro to sound programming in max/msp

wednesday
read: sound programming info: excerpt from DuBois article
more sound programming / processing in protools, max/msp, and soundhack
work in progress + studio session

Mar 9 / 11 - Broken Music, Part 1

monday
read: Marclay & Tone, Record, CD, Analog, Digital
project tech, as needed
work in progress + studio time

wednesday
project 2 critique: transformation / process

Mar 16 / 18 - Spring Break

Mar 23 / 25 - Sound and Image

monday
finish project 2 critique: transformation / process
read: intermedia article
browse: visual music site + visual music blog
tech: video in pt's + soundtrack pro

wednesday
read: Synchronous Form in Visual Music from offscreen
browse: create digital motion
browse: works by Miller & Pagano
discuss: project 3 ideas

Mar 30 / Apr 1 - Sound and Image cont.

monday
read: Levin's audiovisual systems overview
browse: Levin's AV suite and manual input sessions
tech: tools for audio visual composition / performance - some software info is here
see also jitter - processing - isadora - blender
show: work in progress

wednesday
browse: some of the artist info here or here
tech: video codecs and exporting - browse quicktime info here (as needed)
open studio / project tech

Apr 6 / 8 - Broken Music, Part 2: Circuit Bending, Glitch and the Aesthetics of Failure

monday
project 3 critique: sound / image

wednesday
Cacscone, The Aesthetics of Failure: “Post-Digital” Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music
write: please write a response to this reading and email it to me by 10am on wednesday
listen: to these materials
breaking technology and circuit bending

Apr 13 / 15 - Sound performance

monday
intro to sonic performance
read: Live electronic music performance
listen / watch: these materials
discuss final projects

wednesday
interactive systems for sound performance
browse: this site
HCI / eighth nerve guitar demo
open studio

Apr 20 / 22 - Sound Art and Installation

monday
read: Schulz, Resonances, Aspects of Sound Art (pdf)
browse: works by Decker, Osborn, and Kubusch
open studio - work in progress showing

wednesday
open studo - I will be at the cycling 74 (max/msp) expo

Apr 27 / 29 - Work-in-progress

monday
work in progress showing

wednesday
tba

Wednesday May 6th - FInal Critique 1-4