Audio Materials
The selections may be found in the shared "Session Two " folder or in this YouTube playlist (courtesy of Philippe Moore).


Aphex Twin, I Care Because You Do [1995]
Track 01 Acrid Avid Jam Shred
Track 05 Ventolin (Video Version)
Track 10 Alberto Balsalm

 

Björk, Post [1995]
Track 02 Hyper-Ballad
Track 05 Enjoy
Track 11 Headphones

 

Daniel Pemberton, Bedroom [1994]
Track 01 Phoenix
Track 02 Basement
Track 10 Voices

 

PLSTKMN, Sheet One [1993]
Track 01 Drp
Track 02 Plasticity
Track 06 Glob

 

Scanner, Sulphur [1995]
Track 03 Through Seven Doors
Track 05 Flaneur Electronique
Track 06 Brittle

 

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Gesang der Jünglinge [1955]
Kontakte (excerpt) [1958]
Zyklus für einen Schlagzeuger [1959]
Hymnen [1969]

Also, you might enjoy this Hymnen Web Project by Oshin Saginian.

session three

January 16, 2014

Readings
"Iara Lee's World Beat" by Michelle Goldberg
MetroActive Movies, from the August 10-23, 1998 issue of the Metropolitan

 

Video Playlist
Re-Modulations: Pioneering Women of Electronica
total time: 2hrs 17min

 

Video Screening (shown in class)
Modulations: Cinema for the Ear (1998) by Iara Lee
total time: 74 minutes

 

 

week three / session four

January 21, 2014

Readings
Audio Culture II: Modes of Listening
Ch. 14: Pierre Schaeffer, "Acousmatics"
Ch. 15: Francisco Lopez, "Profound Listening and Environmental Sound Matter"
Ch. 17: Brian Eno, "Ambient Music"
Ch. 18: Iain Chambers, "The Aural Walk"
Ch. 19: Pauline Oliveros, "Some Sound Observations"

Audio Materials
These selections may be found in the shared "Session Four " folder.

Pierre Schaeffer, études e bruits [1948]
Track 01 Etude aux Chemins de Fer
Track 02 Etude aux Tourniquets
Track 03 Etude Violette
Track 04 Etude Noire

 

Francisco Lopez, La Selva [1997]

 

Brian Eno
Discreet Music [1975]
Track 01 Discreet Music

Ambient 1: Music For Airports [1978]
Track 01 "1-1"
Track 04 "2-2"

Ambient 4: On Land [1982]
Track 01 Lizard Point
Track 05 Lantern Marsh

 

Aural Walks

Janet Cardiff, "The Missing Voice (excerpt)" [1999]

 

Annea Lockwood
A Sound Map of the Hudson River [1989]
Track 02 Feldspar Broom, Mt. Marcy - The Highest Tributary
Track 08 Confluence of Patterson Brook and The Hudson River
A Sound Map of the Danube [2008]
Track 04 Passau to Jochenstein Dam

 

Hildegard Westerkamp, Into India [2002]
Track 02 Into the Labirinth

 

Pauline Oliveros
"Bye Bye Butterfly" [1965]
"Alien Bog" [1967]

 

Deep Listening Band, The Ready Made Boomerang [1991]
Track 01 Balloon Payment
Track 06 CCCC (Cistern Chapel Chance Chants)

session five

January 23, 2014

Listening Exercises #2 & #3
These are shared with you through our class Google Drive folder in the document, "Listening Exercises."

 

 

week four / session six

January 28, 2014

Review Blog 1: Sonorous Objects
This assignment is shared with you through our class Google Drive folder in the document, "Review Blog." You will also be invited to our class blog via the email address that you use for the Google Drive.

Readings
Audio Cultures III: Music in the Age of Electronic (Re)production
Ch. 23 John Oswald, "Bettered by the Borrower: The Ethics of Musical Debt"
Ch. 24 Chris Cutler, "Plunderphonia"

Audio Materials
These selections may be found in the "Session Six " folder.

John Cage, "Williams Mix" (1952)

John Cage, "Imaginary Landscapes No. 4" (1951)
WFMU, "New York, NY Radio: The Night John Lennon Died"
William S. Burroughs, "Present Time Exercises" (1971)
James Tenney, "Collage #1 (Blue Suede)" (1961)

 

John Oswald. 69 Plunderphonics 96 (1988 / 2001)
Track 21 Pretender (Dally Proton)
Track 22 Dont (Vessel Ripley)

 

Christian Marclay, Records (1997)
Track 02 Jukebox Capriccio

 

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, The Message (1982)
Track 08 The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" (1981)

 

Malcolm McLaren & the World's Famous Supreme Team, "Buffalo Gals" (1982)

session seven

January 30, 2014

Readings
Strange Sounds I: Theory (Ch. 1-2)

Audio Materials
These selections may be found in the "Session Seven" folder.

Strictly Kev, "Raiding The 20th Century (A History of the Cut-Up)" (2004)
DJ Food, "Raiding the 20th Century (Words & Music Expansion)" (2005)

 

 

week five / session eight

February 04, 2014

Readings
Strange Sounds II: Time (Ch. 3-5)

Audio Materials
The two short TOS1_Sonified Science Fiction mixes mash up my own interests in the sound and music of science fiction film soundtracks with Timothy Taylor's interests in space age bachelor pad exotica and spacey ephemera.

The second half of the program does not start automatically, so you will need to do so manually. If the embedded player doesn't show up below or you prefer direct downloads, these may be found here.

The following selections, many referenced in Timothy Taylor's book, may be found in the "Session Eight " folder.

Harry Revel & Les Baxter, Music Out of the Moon [1947]
Track 01 Lunar Rhapsody
Track 02 Moon Moods
Track 04 Celestial Nocturne

 

Louis & Bebe Barron, Forbidden Planet [1956]
Track 01 Main Titles (Overture)
Track 02 Deceleration
Track 03 Once Around Altaire
Track 04 The Landing
Track 14 The Mind Booster / Creation of Matter
Track 19 Battle with the Invisible Monster
Track 21 The Monster Pursues / Morbius Is Overcome

 

Bobby Christian, Strings for a Space Age [1959]
Track 02 Out of This World
Track 06 How High The Moon
Track 08 Space Suite 2: Count Down / Flight Into Orbit / Empyreon

 

Russ Garcia, Fantastica: Music from Outer Space [1959]
Track 01 Into Space
Track 04 Monsters of Jupiter
Track 05 Water Creatures of Astra
Track 07 Red Sands of Mars

 

Perrey-Kinglsey, The In Sound from Way Out! [1966]
Track 02 The Little Man From Mars
Track 03 Cosmic Ballad
Track 11 Computer In Love

 

Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier, Les Yper Sound [1967]
Track 01 Psyche Rock
Track 04 Teen Tonic

 

Stereolab, Mars Audiac Quintet [1994]
Track 01 Tree-Dee Melodie
Track 04 Des Étoiles Electroniques
Track 08 Nihilist Assault Group
Track 10 The Stars Our Destination
Track 13 Outer Accelerator

session nine

February 06, 2014

Technicians of Space lecture
2: The German Space Program
This presentation considers parallel inquiries into human biocomputing, cybernetic engineering, and space exploration conducted by the American space program and the German acid rock scene during the early 1970s. Swapping Werner von Braun and Timothy Leary, as it were, I present the Kosmische Musik phenomena as it reflects research and experiments in biocomputing and cyborg studies, the psychedelic sciences, and interspieces communication in the projects of John Lilly and Ed Mitchell.

 

 

week six / session ten

February 11, 2014

Sick day.

session eleven

February 13, 2014

Critical Mashup
This assignment is shared with you through our class Google Drive folder in the document, "Mashup."

Audio Materials
I will introduce these in class; you will need to listen to the "AV Smackdown" and one other podcast before class on Thursday.

WNYC's RadioLab: http://www.radiolab.org/
* “AV Smackdown … The Podcast”

You will also need to pick one of the podcasts from the list below and listen to it in its entirety before our next class session (see Review Blog 2 entry for Thursday):
WNYC's RadioLab: http://www.radiolab.org/
* “Musical Language” (April 21, 2006)
* “Pop Music” (March 21, 2008)
* “Space” (May 12, 2006)

ABC Radio National: “Hearing Voices” (July 22, 2006)

Tone Generation: “Programme 20: Electronics and Voice”
* http://www.ianhelliwell.co.uk/tone-generation.html

Welcome To Mars: “Programme 6: 1953: Other Tongues, Other Flesh”
* http://www.simonsound.co.uk/#/welcome-to-mars/

Sounding Out!: Sound Studies Blog: http://soundstudiesblog.com
* “Episode #6: Spaces of Listening / The Record Shop”
* “Episode #7: Celebrate World Listening Day with the World Listening Project”

Shallow Rewards: https://www.youtube.com/shallowrewards
* “Episode #19: The Hiding”

 

 

week seven / session twelve

February 18, 2014

Review Blog 2: Podcasts
This assignment will be shared with you through our class Google Drive folder in the document, "Review Blog."

Readings
Audio Culture III: Music in the Age of Electronic (Re)production
Ch. 22: Brian Eno, "The Studio As Compositional Tool"

Audio Culture VIII: DJ Culture
Ch. 50: Paul D. Miller, "Algorithms: Erasures and the Art of Memory"
Ch. 51: David Toop, "Replicant: On Dub"

Technicians of Space lecture
3. Cognitive Dub Science
This presentation zooms in on "memory" as a particularly important, discrete state of consciousness with powerful parallels in the use of magnetic tape in recording, manipulating and composing sound. Listening to diverse works by Brian Eno, Eno and Fripp, Richard Pinhas, Jamaican dub engineers, William Basinski, Boards of Canada, Tricky, DJ Spooky, and Kode9 + the Spaceape. I consider the relationship of the delay effect and sound recording to the phenomena of death, decay, and disintegration. Informed by the works of Jacques Derrida, I suggest a philosophy of electronic voice phenomena that helps us consider how dreadlocked systems produce sonic intelligences, Others otherwise known as ghosts.

session thirteen

February 20, 2014

The Critical Voice Podcast Proposals
This assignment will be shared with you through our class Google Drive folder in the document, "Podcast."

 

 

week eight / session fourteen

February 25, 2014

Technicians of Space lecture
5. Space Rituals
From the Pink Floyd's space rock shows at London's U.F.O. club to Hawkwind's free concerts and the disasters of a Sex Pistols gig, media ritual surrounds these artists. Concentrating on space-related performers ranging from Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, Yes, Tim Blake's Crystal Machine, and Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One to Sun Ra and Parliament, I consider the spatial nature of group identity and the practice of collective deep listening and communal trance in relationship to the telematic bodies described by Roy Ascott and Derrida's echographies of television. I'm particularly interested in conflicts between zones of cosmic spiritual identity and electronically mediated presence.

session fifteen

February 27, 2014

No class session.

 

 

week nine / session sixteen

March 04, 2014

Podcast Proof workshop, part 1

session seventeen

March 06, 2014

Podcast Proof workshop, part 2

 

 

week ten / session eighteen

March 11, 2014

Technicians of Space lecture
6. Contemplative Radio
Throughout the various waves of new age space music we encounter a common concern with sonic environmentalism for the mind. Tuning into the vast, intergalactic communications system that Philip K. Dick names “Radio Free Albemuth,” this presentation explores the dream radios, mood organs and spiritual cyborgs of new age music, with works ranging from Karlheinz Stockhausen and Steve Hillage to Robert Rich, Lustmord, and Meg Bowles. Such space music performs a technological religiosity situating terrestrial experience and mental health within the grand scale of cosmic event, as well as sustaining the belief that the human enterprise is inextricably bound in an impulse to leave the planet Earth behind.

session nineteen

March 13, 2014

Final Presentations