RTF 331T: Spring 2002 Schedule

(Schedule Subject to Change)

Week One: Jan 15th-17th

Tues: Introduction, first day business.

Thurs: Science of Sound Lecture, Packet Reading = Gross & Ward CH 8 & 9.

**Orientation in Lab Friday 18^th at 6pm-Be Here!!

Week Two: Jan 22nd-24th

Tues: Topic: Intro to Sound Theory, Packet reading = Zeitel CH 17 & 18. Sounds from Childhood, bring into class an object that makes a sound. Discuss Project #1, handout. Sign up for Class Presentations.

Thurs: Lab on Equipment & resources in ACT lab.

Week Three: Jan 29th-31st

Tues: Topic: Immersed in Noise: Sentient Sound; Interpolation of Noise, Protean Noise; Oscillator Noise - Play sounds and discuss-Project #1 Part 1due.  

Thurs:Lab on editing principles, sound, looping, styles, etc.. (2 sounds due)

Week Four: Feb 5th-7th

Tues: Topic: Noises of the Avant-Garde: Bruitism; Noise and Simultaneity; The Future of War Noises.

Thurs: Lab, work on Project #1 Part 2. (2 sounds due)

Week Five: Feb 12th-14th

Tues: Topic: Concerning The Line; Resident Noises; The Gloss of the Gliss; Beethoven Fifty Times per Second; "I the Accelerated Line"

Thurs: Project #1 Part 2 Due , In Class Critiques

Week Six: Feb 19th-21st

Tues:  Topic: The Sound of Music: Demarcated Sounds; Drawing the Line in Theory; Synesthesia as Noise Abatement.   

Thurs: Packet Reading: Altman, Lab on streaming media. (2 sounds due)

Week Seven: Feb 22nd-28th

Tues: Topic: Music, Genre & Culture-Packet Reading: Rose, Ch 2, .              

Thurs: Lab, (2 sounds due) ‚ Soundscapes for Cinematic-Canvassing; Samantha Krukowski  (Guest presenter.) 

Week Eight: March 5th-7th

Tues: Topic: Music, Genre & Culture ‚ Packet Reading: Thornton, Ch 2.

Thurs: Lab, (2 sounds due) ‚ Sound & Memory; Lisa Barnett (Guest Presenter)

****Spring Break March 11th-15th****

(Remember we have cart blanche equipment until Spring Break ‚ Use it!)

Week Nine: March 19th-21st

Tues: Topic: John Cage: Silence & Silencing: Much to Confess about Nothing; Canned Silence; Silencing Techniques; Cage and the Impossible Inaudible.   (2 sounds due)
Hand Out on Final Project.

Thurs: Project #2 Due, In Class Critiques.

Week Ten: March 26th-28th

Tues: Topic: Nondissipative Sounds and the Impossible Inaudible; Inaudibly Loud, Long-Lasting, Far-Reaching; Machines of Nondissipation.  Finish In Class Critques         

Thurs: Lab, (2 sounds due) Proposals due for Final Project

Week Eleven: April 2nd-4th

Tues: Topic: The Parameters of All Sound: Loud Sounds; Conceptual Sounds.

Thurs: Lab, (2 sounds due)

Week Twelve: April 9th-11th

Tues: Topic: A Short Art History of Water Sound: Water Music; Dripping; Surrealism and Submerged Women.                     

Thurs: Lab, (2 sounds due)

Week Thirteen: April 16th-18th

Tues: Topic: In the Wake of Dripping: New York at Midcentury: The Object of Permance; Allan Kaprow: Immersed in Noisician; George Brecht's Drip Music      

Thurs: Lab, (2 sounds due)-all 20 sounds due! Sound-journals due.

Week Fourteen: April 23rd-25th

Tues: Topic: Two Sounds of the Virus: William Burrough's Pure Meat Method: A Culture for Growing Viruses; Sclupping; On Goo Behavior; The Cancer Virus; Cellular Phones.-Sign up for final project presentation time & day 

Thurs:  Topic: Music, Genre & Culture-Packet Reading: McKay, Ch 3.

Week Fifteen: April 30th-May 2^nd

Tues: Final Project Presentations!!

Thurs: Final Project Presentations!!

End of Semester Final Project Presentations - TBA - Open to Public