Assignment 5
The reading assignment for Thursday, 7/25 can be found here. Enjoy!
Note that this assignment is extremely short and painless. Please take this opportunity to listen completely through any pieces we may have only heard excerpts of in class.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
At-Home Listening for 7/23
The at-home listening selection due Tuesday 7/23 is as follows:
Burial “Wounder” (2006)
Parliament Funkadelic “Mothership Connection” (1975)
Donna Summer “Love to Love You Baby” (1975)
Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force “Renegades of Funk” (1982)
Dr. Octagon “Technical Difficulties” (1996)
Dr. Octagon “Intro” (1999)
Cybotron “Clear” (1983)
Burial “Wounder” (2006)
Parliament Funkadelic “Mothership Connection” (1975)
Donna Summer “Love to Love You Baby” (1975)
Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force “Renegades of Funk” (1982)
Dr. Octagon “Technical Difficulties” (1996)
Dr. Octagon “Intro” (1999)
Cybotron “Clear” (1983)
Monday, July 22, 2013
Assignment 4
Assignment 4
The reading for Tuesday, 7/23 may be found here.
Lloyd Bradley- Bass Culture (9 pages)
Nic Collins- Handmade Electronic Music (21 pages)
Ronald Kuivila- Open Sources (7 pages)
Peter Shapiro- Turn the Beat Around (14 pages)
Trevor Wishart- On Sonic Art (13 pages)
The reading for Tuesday, 7/23 may be found here.
Lloyd Bradley- Bass Culture (9 pages)
Nic Collins- Handmade Electronic Music (21 pages)
Ronald Kuivila- Open Sources (7 pages)
Peter Shapiro- Turn the Beat Around (14 pages)
Trevor Wishart- On Sonic Art (13 pages)
7/18 Listening List
On Thursday, 7/18, we heard the following (not including the midterm):
Louis and Bebe Barron “Ancient Krell Music” (1958)
Louis and Bebe Barron “A Shangri-La in the Desert-Garden with a Cuddly Tiger”(1958)
Gottfried Michael Koenig “Funktion Grau” (1969)
Zapp & Roger “It doesn't really matter” (1986)
Karlheinz Stockhausen “Kontakte” (1958)
Joji Yuasa “Projection Esemplastic for White Noise” (1964)
Louis and Bebe Barron “Ancient Krell Music” (1958)
Louis and Bebe Barron “A Shangri-La in the Desert-Garden with a Cuddly Tiger”(1958)
Gottfried Michael Koenig “Funktion Grau” (1969)
Zapp & Roger “It doesn't really matter” (1986)
Karlheinz Stockhausen “Kontakte” (1958)
Joji Yuasa “Projection Esemplastic for White Noise” (1964)
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
7/16 Listening List
On Tuesday, 7/16, we heard:
Clara Rockmore & Nadia Reisenberg: The Swan (Composed by Camille Saint-Saens)
Edgard Varese: Poeme Electronique (1958)
Iannis Xenakis: Concret PH (1958)
King Tubby: Ethiopian Version (1976)
Sun Ra Arkestra: Myth versus Reality, Angelic Proclamation, Out in Space (1970)
No reading assignment is due Thursday 7/18. Good luck on the midterm!
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Assignment 3
Assignment 3:
The reading for Tuesday, 7/16 may be found here (PDF).Today we listened to:
Christian Marclay: Louis Armstrong, Jimi Hendrix (from "More Encores") (1989)
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape no. 1 (1939), Williams Mix (1953)
Pierre Henry / Nicolas Schoeffer: Spatiodynamisme II (1954)
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Assignment 2
Assignment 2 (Due Thursday, 7/11th)
John Cage: Experimental Music – 5 pgs (1958)
Nouritza Matossian: Xenakis – 10 pgs (w/ pictures!) (1986)
Siegfried Giedion: Mechanization Takes Command – 5 pgs (1948)
and...
Mark Dery: Black to the Future – 7 pgs (with tight margins) (2002)
I will post the listenings we did in class after it happens.
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