art and the soundscape ARTV 424 / MUSC 424 part of the curriculum in Art, Technology and Critical Studies at the University of San Diego offered every other year Instructor: Christopher Adler
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art and the soundscape The ubiquity of sound and its power to shape our experience of the world makes the study of the sonic environment in its natural, social and political contexts study an important part of humanistic inquiry. Inheriting the term from the founder of acoustic ecology R. Murray Schafer, ethnomusicologist Steven Feld defines the soundscape as a sonic environment invested with significance by human imagination. Artistic engagement with the soundscape, both through passive work such as recording and audio collage, and through active work including intentional contributions to the sound environment provide a means to gain fluency in the personal and social significance of sound. There is a wealth of artistic work from the 20th century relating to the experience of the soundscape, and such work continues to make up an important aspect of contemporary sound art and experimental music. Such work reaches across a variety of traditional and new media, including earthworks, sculpture and installation art, music, phonography (sonic documentation and representation), instrument construction, broadcast media and the internet.
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resources and miscellaneous citations extensive sound art-related links available at the 109 Introduction to Sound Art site Course reserves list via Sally (current semester) Acoustic Ecology Institute David Dunn, Santa Fe Institute Public Lecture, August 15, 2001 (pdf) The Land Foundation (Rirkit Tiravanija)
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Fall, 2008 Sheree Hyduke, The Beginning of Compositions: "Music"
Spring, 2007 Chris Cuthbert, Three Trains |
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