Several readings are from the book:
Cox, Christoph, and Daniel Warner, eds. Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. London, UK: Continuum International, 2004. ISBN: 9780826416155.
LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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1 | Art of Noises | 120 Years of Electronic Music: Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 - 1990 |
2 | What is Radical Music? Noise and Reproducibility | Russolo. "Art of Noises." In Audio Culture. Marinetti, F. T. "Futurist Manifesto." Benjamin, W. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Chanan, M. "Record Culture." In Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and Its Effects on Music. San Francisco, CA: Analytical Psychology Club of San Fransico, Inc., 1995. ISBN: 9781859840122. Dub Music |
3 | Electronic Indeterminacy, Tape Loops: John Cage, Lee Scratch Perry | Cage, John. "Compositional as Process: Indeterminacy." In Audio Culture. Eshun, K. "Inner Spatializing the Song." In More Brilliant than the Sun. London, UK: Quartet Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780704380257. Davis, Erik. "Dub, Scratch, and the Black Star." |
4 | Sample Culture: RZA, DJ Spooky Discussion of Collage Culture and Music Concrète In-class: Show and Tell-bring a Record into Class and Sample a Section to be Included in Your Sound Collage | Miller, Paul D. "Algorithms: Erasures and the Art of Memory." In Audio Culture. Pierre Schaeffer Tim Hodkinson's 1986 Interview with Pierre Schaeffer (PDF) Marshall, Wayne. "shocklee is a prophet and i think you oughta listen." Blog Entry, September 15, 2005. Podcasting |
5 | Analogue Synthesis (Guest Speaker: Joe Paradiso) | Paradiso, Joe. "Modular Synthesizer." In Timeshift (Proceedings of Ars Electronica 2004). Edited by G. Stocker and C. Schopf. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004, pp. 364-370. (PDF - 3.7 MB) Joe Paradiso's Page Harrison, Nate. "Bassline Baseline." Video, 2005. Drum Machine |
6 | Sound Tracking: Spatial and Visual Music One-bit Synthesis (Guest Speaker: Noah Vawter) | Eno, Brian. "Ambient Music." In Audio Culture. Vawter, Noah. "One-Bit Oscillator Design." Presented at 2005 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. New Paltz, NY, October 16-19, 2005. |
7 | Radio Training Session | |
8 | Lab Session on Computer Music Technique Beauty of Speed View: Come to Daddy, Windowlicker, Aphex Twin/Chris Cunningham | Hardcore | Breakbeat | Jungle | Drum'n'Bass | Garage | Grime | Dubstep | Ragga Jungle | Garage/2step | Grime/Dubstep |
9 | Beauty of Speed (cont.) Surround Systems and Generative Sound | |
10 | Field Trip | |
11 | Final Project Presentations | |
12 | Final Project Presentations (cont.) |