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across disciplines, regions, and institutions. From theory to practice, it explores all things related to sound. It also operates a Sound Lab in the School of Design, SUSTech Shenzhen.
DS313 Sound and Senses
Week 3: Theories of Sound
Prof. Marcel Sagesser
Recap
What is
- sound studies
- STS
- Sensory anthropology
- Sensory language
- What is sound? (New)
- What is listening? (New)
- What is hearing? (New)
Homework review
Defining and classifying a vocabulary for sensory experiences
Notes (collected word list)
Theory & Practice
Readings: shared folder (password protected)
Homework for next week
Choose a story or situation in your week that you can primarily experience through sound. Describe the experience in words (use new vocabulary, and key concepts, from class, to describe it as precisely as possible). You can add 1 photo to it (self-made).
Week 4: Sound Installation, Sound Sculpture, and Experimental Sound
Prof. Marcel Sagesser
Theory
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Recap, what are the six important concepts?
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Soundscape + Sound Maps (Visualizations of Sound), R. Murray Schaefer
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Painting as a “window” into another world - Sound as a “window” into another world (or another time period) (Alberti)
Case Studies
(slides available on shared course folder)
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Laetitia Sonami - Rijeka Sound Gates
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Rolf Julius - Red
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Robert Morris - Box with the Sound of its own Making
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Ryoji Ikeda - The Transfinite
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Mimi Kind - Approaching Loops / Spin Cycle
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Annie Aries - Transition
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Max Neuhaus - Times Square
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Alvin Curran - Maritime Rites
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Zimoun - 250 prepared AC motors, ...
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Annea Lockwood, A Sound Map of the Danube
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Bruce Nauman, Bouncing Two Balls Between Monitors Wth Changing Rhythms
Homework Review (from last week):
Watch each students’ photo and read each students’ text description -> imagine a sound in our inner ear, on our mind, but we are in a totally silent space
Group Making + Topics Choice
【腾讯文档】DS313-week4-topics
https://docs.qq.com/sheet/DSkpNZXlYT01FQWdi?tab=BB08J2
Homework
Final Projects (Group work):
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2 case studies
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2 academic sources
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2 sketches / plans / drawing / visualizations / usage scenarios / graphics / ...
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2 ideas for sensory anthropology
-> Upload results to the shared class folder (under final projects / week 4 homework) by the beginning of the next class (Monday, 13:59)Contact
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