What is the Wiki?
The wiki is just like Wikipedia, only you have to actually participate. I tentatively call it TeachyWiki, and it is an experiment this year in all my classes for students to post reading notes and discussion questions to a single, collaboratively edited forum.  In future years, students will be able to learn from and improve on your summary and questions about, say, David Pinder, and even this year you’ll be able to spy on what students are reading in my other classes.  You can access it here.

For each week in which we have a reading, a student will be responsible for writing a summary on our class wiki.  Even if it is not your week, you are expected to read these postings and add four items to the discussion page: two statements and two questions.  These postings will be due on at 5 pm the day before class.  We will determine how to divide up each week’s readings and practice posting to the wiki in the first week of class.  Active and thoughtful participation on the wiki will involve returning to previous posts and editing them in light of class discussions.

List of Artists
Here is a list of some artists and art movements that have used sound in an interesting or significant way.  Some might describe themselves as sound artists, some might more readily call themselves some other kind of artist, and a few might say they are musicians.  This is a broad cross-section of contemporary and historical sound artists that is by no means exhaustive; it is simply a place to get started.  Vastly more information is available for some of these people than others, but you should not necessarily choose an artist for ease of research.  Consider non-traditional methods of research; most of these people can be found online, and they may very well respond favorably to an email.