Readings

Several readings are from the book:

Buy at Amazon Cox, Christoph, and Daniel Warner, eds. Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. London, UK: Continuum International, 2004. ISBN: 9780826416155.

LEC # TOPICS READINGS
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."

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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

This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.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.)