Readings
All texts are available on the Morris Library e-reserves or online, as indicated by a link below. You must be an active reader in this class, which means reading the articles more than once, underling, taking notes, and preparing comments and questions for discussion. YOU ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO PRINT OUT ALL ARTICLES AND BRING THEM TO CLASS for reference during discussion. I place the materials on e-reserves to help students save money, not to develop bad reading habits.
Materials
External firewire hard drive, minimum 80 GB
Compact Flash memory card, minimum 512 MB
Mini DV tapes, at least three
DVD-Rs, at least four
Sound Journal
AA batteries, as needed
Bibliography
_____. “The National Entertainment State.” The Nation. July 3, 2006, pp 13-30.
Alten, Stanley R. “Physics and Psychophysics of Sound,” “Microphones,” “Studio Production: Live and Live-on-Tape (excerpt)” and “Staged Productions” (excerpt). Audio In Media. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1999, pp 12-23, 42-73, 206-213, 261-265.
Arnheim, Rudolf. “In Praise of Blindness” in Neil Strauss, ed. Radiotext(e). New York: Semiotext(e), 1993, pp. 20-25.
Chion, Michel. “The Three Listening Modes,” “Lines and Points,” and “Introduction to Audiovisual Analysis” in Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, pp 25-34, 35-65,185-213.
Collins, Mike. “Recording Audio,” “Mixing,” and “Appendix 2” in ProTools LE & M-Powered. Burlington, MA: Focal Press, 2006, pp. 205-228, 279-314, 335-344.
Deloria, Philip J. “The Hills are Alive…with the Sound of Indian” in Indians in Unexpected Places. Lawrence, KS: The University Press of Kansas, 2004, pp 183-223.
Dyson, Frances. “A Philosophonics of Space: Sound, Futurity and the End of the World.” Sound Culture, 2004.
Kahn, Douglas, “The Sound of Music” in Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999, pp 101-122.
Kao, Eli and Jeff Towne. “A Beginner’s Guide to Pro Tools.”
Lessig, Lawrence. “Property” and “Afterword” in Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. New York: Penguin Books, 2004, pp. 116-173, 276-286.
Miller, Paul D. Rhythm Science. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004, pp 4-29.
Negativland, “Fair Use.”
Pittman, Marilyn. “Standups and Voiceovers.”
Russolo, Luigi. “The Art of Noises.”
Sharma, Sanjay. “The Sounds of Alterity” in Michael Bull and Les Back, eds. The Auditory Culture Reader. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003, pp 409-418.
Thibaud, Jean-Paul. “The Sonic Composition of the City” in Michael Bull and Les Back, eds. The Auditory Culture Reader. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003, pp 329-341.
Wrightson, Kendall. “An Introduction to Acoustic Ecology.” Journal of Electroacoustic Music, Volume 12, March 1999. Available online at: http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAE/studies/wrightson.pdf.
Yewdall, Daniel Lewis. “Foley: The Art of Footsteps, Props, and Cloth Movement” in Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound. Burlington, MA: Focal Press, 2003, 294-328.
Image: Still from A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson, 1956