Music 202 - Sound Art - Grinnell College - Fall 2015
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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Details are subject to change. Changes will be announced in class and updated on the online schedule.
MONDAY
8/31/15
INTRODUCTION
Introductions, syllabus, course outline, objectives, themes and policies. Soundwalk.
• Supplementary reading: https://goo.gl/1HpXMe
SEGMENT 1: THE LISTENING MACHINE
MONDAY
9/7/15
Concept Lab
Due by 7 p.m.
1. Read the syllabus and visit the course website - https://goo.gl/TYFIuS
• Particularly: https://goo.gl/N1WWxu
2. Introduce yourself on the course blog - https://goo.gl/VEMZ7p
3. Schedule an appointment and attend office hours this week.
4. Review materials for assignment #1: The Listening Machine - https://
goo.gl/vnx8nK
5. Readings:
• Russolo’s Art of Noises - http://goo.gl/n4R0eJ
• Collin’s Call for Silence (e-reserves).
• As you read, consider the definitions of and relationship between noise
and silence.
• Chion’s Three Listening Modes (e-reserves)
6. Watch: Pletsch’s Auditory Transduction - https://goo.gl/2sYaTy
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Due by end of class or 12 a.m.
Post all materials to the course blog - https://goo.gl/TYFIuS
• Lab documentation: Describe your group’s creative process and outcomes.
Supplement your description with audiovisual documentation.
• Define Listening Machine. (One definition per group.)
Music 202 - Sound Art - Grinnell College - Fall 2015
MONDAY
9/14/15
Workshop
Due by 7 p.m.
• Create: a paper prototype of your proto-project - https://goo.gl/Wuu1L7
• Watch: Up and Running with Reaper 4, Sections 1 - 4 (lynda.com)
• Access lynda.com via pioneerweb. To register for an account, you must be
on campus. Subsequently, you can access lynda.com off campus.
• Read: Music and Computers - Chapter 1: The Digital Representation of Sound http://goo.gl/vE57SE
• Bring all materials you need to work on your proto-project.
• Recommended (but optional) student choice assignments:
• Gather Inspiration - https://goo.gl/TUOPHs
• Brainstorm Ideas - https://goo.gl/MZgYnN
• Project proposal - https://goo.gl/Pgqhd5
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Due by end of class:
• Start tracking your own SCA points here - https://goo.gl/JbV6gO
• Fill out and return participation points sheet
• Informal in-person progress report/check-in
• Sign up (on paper) for SCA options, as desired
• Group blog posts - Noise vs. Silence, Listening Modes, Reaper Ringtones
• Individual blog post - photo of paper prototype + audio of discussion
regarding prototype
• Vote on whether to present our LM’s in JRC - https://goo.gl/mUHv8m
Music 202 - Sound Art - Grinnell College - Fall 2015
MONDAY
9/21/15
Presentation/
Critique
Due by 7 p.m.
• Read: Music and Computers - Chapter 2: The Digital Representation of Sound http://goo.gl/vE57SE
• Proto-Project #1: Listening Machine - review details here:
• http://goo.gl/TtMaLa
• Artist Statement or artist statement alternative
• Read one artist’s perspective on artist statements: http://goo.gl/n0iWvl and
a reply: http://goo.gl/8BQo8
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Suggested: Check out some projects from last year’s class, here:
• http://goo.gl/Oyv9Y6 (First two links are listening machines, third is a
video of a sampling of projects from throughout the semester, and the last
link is the old course blog.)
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Due by End of Class
• Sign up for Slack channel(s) for your SCA groups, here: https://
auralartscooperative.slack.com/
• Group work: brainstorm, write and post an abstract for the Leonardo call for
papers
- Details, here: https://goo.gl/qVhIiA
- Sticky notes, here: http://mur.al/bVZdW73j
Submit
peer feedback and listening machine reflection, here:
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- https://goo.gl/b8wcRO
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SEGMENT 2: SONIC CINEMATIC
Music 202 - Sound Art - Grinnell College - Fall 2015
MONDAY
9/28/15
Concept Lab
Due by 7 p.m.
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• Finish submitting peer feedback and listening machine reflection, here:
- https://goo.gl/b8wcRO
• Update your listening machine blog post with any documentation you want to
share from the crit.
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• Read: Assigned* chapter of Arnheim’s Radio: Art of Sound (e-reserves - some
browsers work better than others for this link. Chrome tends not to work for me.)
- *Sign up for your chapter, here: https://goo.gl/ZATUZb (first come, first serve)
Take
notes, create a mind map and/or write a chapter summary for your
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chapter, here:
- http://mur.al/meddA84Z
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• Choose one of these two items:
- Listen: Making of Radiolab - http://goo.gl/deQ9OL
- Watch: BBC Alchemists of Sound - http://goo.gl/QX0o0f *Unfortunately this
link is no longer available. Please listen to the Making of Radiolab instead.
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• Listen to the first 30 minutes of RadioLab’s account of Orson Welles’ War of
the Worlds - http://goo.gl/ctc73w. Note that the second half of this
broadcast details a tragedy that occurred in a subsequent broadcast of the
War of the Worlds.
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• Review the introductory materials to the sonic cinematic section, and be sure
to peruse the embedded research group links: https://
soundart202fall2015.wordpress.com/assignments/proto-projects/soniccinematic/. Based on the embedded links, rank your research group
preferences, and come early tonight to get first dibs on your favorite research
group.
• Review lynda.com Reaper tutorials!
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Due by 12 a.m. Due by Wednesday 11:59 p.m.
• Lab documentation: Describe your group’s creative process and outcomes.
Supplement your description with audiovisual documentation.
• Define cinematic properties of sound. (One definition per group.)
• Provide a brief overview of the themes your group investigated (including
types of materials explored in these links).
• Describe your group’s creative process and outcomes. Supplement your
description with audiovisual documentation. (Share the documentation you
took of other groups’ projects using the same dropbox links as before, so
they can add these to their blog post, as desired.)
• Consider the various labs you experienced tonight. Reflect on any ways in
which these experiences related to themes discussed in the Arnheim readings.
Music 202 - Sound Art - Grinnell College - Fall 2015
MONDAY
10/5/15
Workshop
Due by 7 p.m.
• Create: a paper prototype of your proto-project.
• Install Spear. Watch my tutorial.
• I’ve noticed a number of issues with different types of noise in your
recordings and in Reaper files (self-noise, clicking, clipping, distortion, etc).
Watch these two tutorials that deal with unwanted noise and setting levels
Reaper.
• Watch these Max/MSP tutorials. (You do not need to install the program yet,
but it is important to get a head start on working with this program since it
can be a steep learning curve. Note also, that I made these tutorials in Max 6.
Max 7 looks a bit different, but is fundamentally the same.)
• Bring all materials you need to work on your proto-project.
• Suggested student choice assignments:
• Gather Inspiration - https://goo.gl/TUOPHs
• Brainstorm Ideas - https://goo.gl/MZgYnN
• Project proposal - https://goo.gl/Pgqhd5
• Make a plan for how you will finish the first set of student choice assignment
points. Bring the plan to class. (Note that the deadline will be extended until
the Wednesday after fall break, and you will be receiving e-mail reminders
with some suggestions.) Continue tracking your own SCA points here https://goo.gl/JbV6gO
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Due by end of class:
• Audio recording and photo of paper-prototype
• Informal in-person progress report/check-in
MONDAY
10/12/15
Presentation/
Critique
Due by 7 p.m.
• Proto-Project #2: Sonic Cinematic
• Project documentation
• Artist Statement
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Due by 12 a.m.
• Submit peer feedback and listening machine reflection
ALL STUDENT CHOICE ASSIGNMENTS FOR FIRST HALF OF
SEMESTER DUE BY FRIDAY OCTOBER 16
SEGMENT 3: OBJECTIFIED, ELECTRIFIED SOUND
Music 202 - Sound Art - Grinnell College - Fall 2015
MONDAY
10/26/15
Concept Lab
Due by 7 p.m.
• Listen: RadioLab’s Musical Language - http://goo.gl/u09Qrm
• Watch: New Sound of Music, parts 1 - 4: https://goo.gl/JBKy8c
• Read: Cage’s Future of Music: Credo - http://goo.gl/X2TiRw
• Listen: Objectified, Electrified Sound
• Peruse links: Noise, Musique Concrete, New Instruments, Music by Rules
• Watch: Video tutorials
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Due by 12 a.m.
• Lab documentation: Describe your group’s creative process and outcomes.
Supplement your description with audiovisual documentation.
• Define noise / musique concrete / instrument / algorithmic music. (One
definition per group.)
MONDAY
11/2/15
Workshop
Due by 7 p.m.
• Create: a paper prototype of your proto-project.
• Watch: Video tutorials
• Bring all materials you need to work on your proto-project.
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Due by end of class:
• Informal in-person progress report/check-in
MONDAY
11/9/15
Presentation/
Critique
Due by 7 p.m.
• Proto-Project #3: Objectified, Electrified Sound - presented in Sebring-Lewis
or Quad Dining
• Project documentation
• Artist Statement
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Due by 12 a.m.
• Submit peer feedback and Objectified, Electrified Sound reflection
SEGMENT 4: SITE-SPECIFIC
MONDAY
11/16/15
Workshop
Due by 7 p.m.
• Read: Kwon’s One Place After Another - http://goo.gl/n7iZdo and Blesser and
Salter’s Introduction to Aural Architecture (Chapter 1 of Spaces Speak, Are You
Listening?) - find in e-reserves
• Peruse links: Interaction, Soundscape, Time, Space, Context
• 100 Ideas (Group brainstorm)
• Paper Prototype (One per group)
• FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL
Music 202 - Sound Art - Grinnell College - Fall 2015
MONDAY
11/23/15
Presentation/
Critique
Due by 7 p.m.
• Proto-Project #4: Site-Specific
• Project documentation
• Artist Statement or artist statement alternative
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Due by 12 a.m.
• Submit peer feedback and Site-Specific reflection
FINAL PROJECTS
MONDAY
11/30/15
Workshop
Due by 7 p.m.
• Create: Final project prototype
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Due by end of class:
• Informal in-person progress report/check-in
MONDAY
12/7/15
Course Wrap-up/
Workshop/Dress
Rehearsal
Due by 7 p.m.
• Final Project
• Read: Neset’s Expressway to YR Cochlea - https://goo.gl/nZRtrQ
• Supplementary reading: Delehanty’s Soundings - https://goo.gl/rBEq2S
CLASS
Class showcase will by Friday 12/11 - Exact time and location TBD.
SHOWCASE:
FRIDAY 12/11/15
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ALL STUDENT CHOICE ASSIGNMENTS FOR SECOND HALF OF
SEMESTER DUE BY FRIDAY DECEMBER 11