Zach Poff

JAN 18 | Sound As Phenomena

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We Will Read In Class

• “The Three Listening Modes”,  from Audio-Vision by Michel Chion

In Class

• Change class time from 6-10 to 6:30-10:30
• Discuss everybody’s previous experience with sound
• Syllabus intro (expectations, grading, attendance)
• Software suggestions (Ardour, ProTools, etc…)
• Introduce phenomenology and the representation of the eye v. the abstraction of the ear. What makes up the experience of sound?
• Consider the formalism of pop music and the lack of a popular “visual music”.  Can we divorce sounds from their creators and their contexts?

Screening

• Listen to an assortment of field-recordings, considering them on the basis of Chion’s 3-part taxonomy
• Introduce a few pieces of sound art and new music
  • “Harmonic Bridge”, Bill Fontana
  • “Into the Labirinth”, Hildegard Westerkamp
  • “He Destroyed Her Image”, Charles Dodge
  • “More From the Case of Death”, John Oswald
  • “Blinking Lights”, Norbert Moslang
  • “Solo for Wounded CD”, Yasunao Tone
  • “Two Listening Rooms / Birmingham”, David Cunningham