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KSE 2010

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Location	Milwaukee, WI, United States
Introduction	This class will take a theoretical and experiential approach to the use of sound for art making. We will examine sound art as an experimental, inter-disciplinary aesthetic that challenges and expands upon more traditional notions of concert and popular music, film scores, and visual art. The class will begin with a discussion of some of the seminal figures and movements that have shaped the still emerging genre of sound art, illuminating its unstable identity at the intersection of music, radio art, sculpture, multi-media installation, and network art. We will explore the evolution of early film scoring to its more contemporary incarnation as sound design, trends in musical form that have moved away from traditional instrumentation and towards sound environments, and the way in which sound art complicates the realm of time-based media. We will engage in hands-on projects consistently throughout the semester, including building our own contact microphones, recording sounds, learning to generate and edit sound in the freeware program Audacity, and building our own transducers (speakers) using household found objects. Students will exhibit their work in a final group show.

Location

Milwaukee, WI, United States

Introduction

This class will take a theoretical and experiential approach to the use of sound for art making. We will examine sound art as an experimental, inter-disciplinary aesthetic that challenges and expands upon more traditional notions of concert and popular music, film scores, and visual art. The class will begin with a discussion of some of the seminal figures and movements that have shaped the still emerging genre of sound art, illuminating its unstable identity at the intersection of music, radio art, sculpture, multi-media installation, and network art. We will explore the evolution of early film scoring to its more contemporary incarnation as sound design, trends in musical form that have moved away from traditional instrumentation and towards sound environments, and the way in which sound art complicates the realm of time-based media. We will engage in hands-on projects consistently throughout the semester, including building our own contact microphones, recording sounds, learning to generate and edit sound in the freeware program Audacity, and building our own transducers (speakers) using household found objects. Students will exhibit their work in a final group show.