PHYS 14
Experimental Music: Species, Monsters, and Things Artificial Winter 2020

Cross-listed MUS 14
This is not the current course catalog

Class Details

In this project-based course we will make rooms into resonant instruments, create topographies of sound through interference patterns, and temper our tastes through chance procedures. We will study the tradition of North American experimental music through listening, performing, composing, and reading. Students will complete audio editing assignments in the software Reaper and carry out composition/performance projects. Listening and reading will be assigned for most class meetings. For the final project students will make a piece of experimental music. “If this word ‘music’ is sacred and reserved for 18th- and 19th-century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.” So wrote John Cage in 1937, voicing the new attitude of the experimental music tradition. In this class we explore the expanded field of the modes of intervention into the flux of sound. Adjunct Instructor Bio: Daniel Fox is a composer and a mathematician based in New York City. His writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, Van Magazine, Perspectives of New Music, and Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. His compositions have been performed by the Jack Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Miranda Cuckson, and Contemporaneous. His doctoral dissertation is on the role of acoustic resonance in American experimental music. His website is thoughtstoodefinite.com.
The Class: Format: lecture
Limit: 20
Grading: pass/fail only
Requirements/Evaluation: short technical assignments, two mid-term projects, and a final project
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: seniority
Materials/Lab Fee: $20
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
PHYS 14 MUS 14

Class Grid

Course Catalog Archive Search

TERM/YEAR
TEACHING MODE
SUBJECT
DIVISION



DISTRIBUTION



ENROLLMENT LIMIT
COURSE TYPE
Start Time
End Time
Day(s)