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Theorieseminar Grundstudium, Wed 10-12

with Prof. hans w. koch

Im Rahmen des Seminars beschäftigen wir uns mit Texten über Klang und Hören unter verschiedenen Perspektiven: Philosophischen und ästhetischen, historischen, technischen, poetischen. Texte von Künstler:innen spielen dabei ebenso eine Rolle wie solche von Theoretiker:innen, Kurator:innen, Naturwissenschaftler:innen und Autor:innen, die sich zwischen etablierten Positionen bewegen. Das Seminar ist gleichzeitig eine Einführung in die zahlreich vorhandene Literatur zum Thema Sound in der KHM-Bibliothek, zu deren selbstständiger Erkundung wir einladen. Die im Seminar gelesenen Texte werden sowohl in deutsch als auch in englisch sein, weswegen beide Sprachen im Seminar eine gleichberechtigte Rolle spielen werden. Die Bereitschaft zu Lesen und das Gelesene gemeinsam zu diskutieren wird erwartet.

Open Seminar Reader

some online journals

Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) https://jar-online.net/en
https://www.auditive-medienkulturen.de/
Journal of Sonic Studies https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/558606/558607
DIVERGENCE PRESS: http://divergencepress.net/
ear wave event: https://earwaveevent.org/issuearchive/
Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies: https://cense.earth/beyond-listening
Fusion Journal: https://fusion-journal.com/issue/019-listening-in-the-anthropocene/
world forum of acoustic ecology / Soundscape The Journal of Acoustic Ecology: https://www.yumpu.com/user/wfae.proscenia.net
Earshot - Sonic investigations for communities affected by corporate, state, and environmental injustice: https://earshot.ngo/
PLATFORM FOR SOUND INNOVATIONS IN TECHNOLOGY, MUSIC, AND VISUAL ARTS: https://www.soundingfuture.com/de

favourite sound of the week

the saddest sound of the world

reading suggestions:

pectromorphology: explaining sound-shapes - denis smalley - > "We need to be able to discuss musical experiences, to describe the features we hear and explain how they work in the context of the music."

Gérard Grisey TempusExMachina - A composer's reflections on musical time

GegenSichKollektive - Caution (2014) - the experiment of the possibility of a very loud sound/noise.

lecture by Michael Edwards in ICEM I saw on "Perceptual or Conceptual - in Electronic Music"
https://youtu.be/sXpQj3qB24A?si=n0XnOVaSW41DCeB9

Mark Fell and Rian Treanor in a conversation on musical notation:
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/the-musical-score-is-the-worst-thing-that-ever-happened-in-the-history-of-music-mark-fell-

john cage: 2 early texts about experimental music

the personally saddest song

  1. The Murder Capital - On Twisted Ground
  2. The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
  3. The Beatles - Yesterday , Sound : https://youtu.be/xGU8Ss3TolI?si=C0OLNZjxilN900cg
  4. Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely: Radiohead "How To Disappear Completely" Original Music Video by David Herrera
  5. Influences on how Jonny Greenwood composes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcibAL3vicY
  6. Bosse-de-Nage - The God Ennui https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oei5QL6YprQ

smalley spectromorphology test

Caterina Barbieri - SOTRS [IMPREC, 2017]

  1. https://imprec.bandcamp.com/track/sotrs
  2. from this album: https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/patterns-of-consciousness
  3. from liner notes: A pattern creates a certain state of consciousness. Once it is created, the pattern stands as an object exactly like the sound waves which generate it.
  4. c.f. also: jani christou "patterns and permutations"

dennis smalley: pentes

  1. https://recollectiongrm.bandcamp.com/track/pentes
  2. stockhausen: 4 kriterien der elektronischen musik
  3. english version: https://web.uvic.ca/~aschloss/course_mat/MU307/MUS307_MATERIALS/Stockhausen_Karlheinz_1972_1989_Four_Criteria_of_Electronic_Music.pdf
  5. example played from kontakte by stockhausen: https://www.elektropolis.de/stockhausen_kontakte/Klangbeispiel_1.mp3

Helena Gough - Nice Electroacoustic composer: https://entracte-digital-e91.bandcamp.com/album/mikroklimata-e91

text for 22.05. Listening as a_construction of the commons

william hutson, Sonic Affects: Experimental Electronic Music in Sound Art, Cinema, and Performance (2015) https://alien8recordings.bandcamp.com/album/so-black-is-myself

foreword only "Shibboleth: Policing By Ear and Forensic Listening in Projects by Lawrence Abu Hamdan "

https://monoskop.org/images/5/54/Lawrence_Abu_Hamdan_A_Politics_of_Listening_in_4_Acts_2016.pdf

nina sun eidsheim: SENSING SOUND - Singing & Listening as Vibrational Practice

chapter 1: MUSIC AS A VIBRATIONAL PRACTICE (Nina Sun Eidsheim)