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SOUND (ART AND TECHNOLOGY)

Histories and aesthetics of sound art and electronic music, tracing how artistic practices emerge through technological change.

  1. 01 Beyond Music: From Noise to Art Historical and conceptual foundations of sound art
  2. 02 Impulse Response Measurementseminar / workshop Measuring acoustic spaces and electronic systems for convolution
  3. 03 Conlon Nancarrow Player piano studies as a precursor of computer music
  4. 04 History of Electronic Music Contrasting synthesizer systems and aesthetics through Morton Subotnick and Wendy Carlos
  5. 05 Screening: Sisters with Transistorsseminar / workshop Lisa Rovner's documentary on the women who pioneered electronic music
  6. 06 FM Synthesis and Digital Sound John Chowning and artistic research in digital sound synthesis
  7. 07 Process Music Music as a gradual process
  8. 08 Performance: Music on a Long Thin Wireseminar / workshop Reconstructing and performing Alvin Lucier's self playing wire installation
  9. 09 Chaos and Nonlinearity Nonlinear dynamics, strange attractors, and chaotic sound synthesis with Chua's circuit
  10. 10 Field Recording and Soundscape Soundscapes from R. Murray Schafer to Hildegard Westerkamp
  11. 11 DIY Aesthetics and Practices in Electronic Music DIY culture, open hardware, and critical making