Class 9 Notation

In today’s class, Notation, we listened and saw  a few examples of your networks.

We also talked about the long histories of notation by beginning our discussion of music as it relates to sound and noise.

Following cues from attali and Noise, we followed notation as it moved from Classical Greece through the middle ages. As Modernity and the massification of graphic notation created a political economy of musical production, parallel trajectories of experimentation of both graphical and musical notation arose.

We looked in depth at Bach and the well Tempered Clavier as it relates to the elightenment project of individualism and perfection. 12 tone music, Schoenberg and Adorno’s attempts to deal with the unfinished enlightement project was addressed.

Particular attention was given to 2 areas of composition and notation: stochastic music and minimalism. We looked closely at rhythm cycles and loops, as they intersect with the sacred and local (gamelan, ragas, ghanaian drumming) and are reflected in concepts of globalized computational media.

Brief examination of the systems designed for new compositional forms were examined, as well as a brief look into Rem Koolhaas’s concept of Junk Space.

we also listened to a number of tracks such as Terry Riley’s in C

as well as James Brown, Fela Kuti, Radiohead, Steve Reich, Skream and others.

Class 8 Networks

This class we covered networks, from bodies to paper to chemical to electronic and to the dead.

You can get  the class lecture here as a .pdf

We talked a little about Cesidio Bianchi and Antonio Meloni’s paper:
Natural and man-made terrestrialelectromagnetic noise: an outlook

One Video was Gregory Whitehead’s

Bring Me the Head of Philip K Dick – BBC radio drama

Class 3: The voice and phantom acousmêtre

We listened to soundwalks today and discussed the power of the voice in recording.

Burroughs, narcissus, edison, marconi, tesla, mary anne doane’s “The Voice in Cinema: The articulation of Body and Space” (Yale french studies no. 60 (1980) p.33-60)

Site specific intervention assigned.

.PDF Presentation is available here

Sound + City Presentation 2: waves, a-d, psychogeography and soundwalks

In this week’s class, we discussed deep listening exercises by the class.

Then we talked about waves, analogue to digital conversion and time, narcissus and echo in the land of reverb, psychogeography, Constant’s babylon and Debord’s naked city, Cardiff and Jam Master Jay.

Class assignment was to make a soundwalk based off of your site.

Presentation can be downloaded here

Sound and The City ’11 Introduction

Here is a link to the presentation for sound and the city introduction.

Be sure to take a look at the syllabus as well.

We left off with deep listening assignment 1 and a discussion around Cage.

Studio Syllabus

The studio syllabus is available as a .pdf here