Assignment 1

Assignment 1 (Due Tuesday, July 9th)

Please email me the url to your blog where you will be posting reading / listening responses.

Readings (may be found here as a zip)-

Please read each of these documents and respond with 1 or 2 sentences on your blog. 

Walter Benjamin: The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction –15 pgs (WalterBenjaminTheWorkofArt.pdf)

Evelyne Gayou: The GRM – 7 pgs (Gayou_GRM.pdf)

Luigi Russolo: Art of Noises – 16 pgs (russolo_noise.pdf)

John Cage: Credo – 9 pgs (John Cage - The Future of Music_ Credo (1937)... .pdf)

Listenings-

The listenings we did in class were:

Halim El-Dabh: "The Expression of Zaar" (1944)

Pierre Schaeffer: "Etude Aux Chemins du Fer" (1948)

Les Paul: "Little Rock Getaway" & "Until I Hold You Again" (1950)

Further listenings will not be mandatory this week. I may send some interesting tracks your way, which you are not obligated to listen to or write up, unless you feel like it. Later on, at-home listenings will be required, though...

Happy 4th of July!