Check out portable recorders and record a haiku.
Clarify the Sonic Portrait assignment, review recording with a flash recorder, introduce Audacity, make sure all students can log onto Listening Disk.

Listening:
Hildegard Westerkamp, Kits Beach Soundwalk and Cricket Voice
Annea Lockwood, A Sound Map of the Hudson River (Lecture)
Matmos, Lipostudio(from A Chance to Cut Is A Chance To Cure)
Neil Rolnick, Neighborhood Ears (Lecture)
Vancouver Soundscape 1973: On Acoustic Design, Music of Horns and Whistles. Homo Ludens (Vancouverites at Play), The Music of Various City Quarters
David Tudor, Rainforest (Lecture)

Reading:

From Audio Culture: Readings in modern music, edited by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner, published by Continuum Books:

R Murray Schafer, “The Music of the Environment” pp 29-39
C. Cox & D Warner, “Modes of Listening” pp 65-66
Francisco López, “Profound Listening ... “ pp 82-87
Pauline Oliveros, “Some Sound Observations” pp 102-106

Ongoing: Sonic Portrait

EMPAC
Johannes Goebel: Workshop + Concert
Saturday March 21, 7:00 PM | Studio 2
"Wandering between the Worlds" - An afternoon workshop by EMPAC's director Johannes Goebel features instruments of his own devising; it is followed by a concert of electronic pieces composed under the influence of computers and centuries of instrumental music.

Listening:
Alvin Lucier, I Am Sitting In A Room (Lecture)
Pierre Schaeffer, Cinq etudes de bruit
Vladimir Ussachevsky, Sonic Contours, For Tape Recorder
Otto Leuning, Fantasy In Space

Reading:
Read this chapter from Peter Kirn's book, Real World of Digital Audio Kirn, Peter, Real World Digital Audio, Peachpit Press, Berkeley, CA, 2006, ISBN 0-321-30460-8

From Audio Culture:
Pierre Schaeffer, “Acousmatics” pp 76-81

Ongoing: Sonic Portrait

Thursday, March 26 at 7pm - UAlbany Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
Open rehearsal - Music by Cage, Feldman, Niblock and Kotik - Free admission
http://www.albany.edu/pac/08-09%20releases/Kotik.htm

Friday, March 27 at 6pm - Performance of sound poetry, or "sound-text" works by Petr Kotik and the Be Blank Consort with Al Margolis. The program will include a re-visioning of "Empty Words" (1972) by John Cage. University Art Museum - Free admission http://www.albany.edu/pac/08-09%20releases/Kotik.htm

Saturday, March 28 at 7pm - UAlbany Performing Arts Center Recital Hall - Concert - Performance by the UAlbany Percussion Ensemble, Chamber Singers,and chamber music ensemble soloists. Music by Cage, Feldman, Nibloc and Kotik. Admission at PAC box office - $10/$8 seniors & faculty-staff /$5 students
http://www.albany.edu/pac/08-09%20releases/Kotik.htm

Saturday, March 28 8 p.m.
"Buchla & Films: Richard Lainhart Plays Live"
Award-winning composer and filmmaker Richard Lainhart in a solo concert of live electronic music accompanied by projections of his computer-generated, high-definition films. Tickets $12 ($10 for Arts Center members)
The Arts Center of the Capital Region 265 River St. Troy, NY 12180 518-273-0552
www.artscentleronline.org

Listening:
Steve Reich, Come Out
Carl Stone, Shing Kee
John Cage, Williams Mix, Fontana Mix
Brian Eno, excerpts from Ambient 1 Music for Airports and Ambient 4 On Land
Schoenberg and Stockhausen (Lecture)

Reading:
Luigi Russolo, “The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto” pp 10-14
Jacques Barzun, “Introductory Remarks ...” pp 367-369
John Cage, “The Future of Music: Credo” pp 25-28
Steve Reich, “Music as a Gradual Process” pp 304-306

Ongoing: Sonic Portrait

Saturday, 4 April
rise set twilight (Linda Aubry and Mike Bullock)
Mike Bullock solo contrabass
The BSC + Pauline Oliveros
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
EMPAC Studio 1
8 pm, free

Listening:
The Beatles, Revolution Number 9
John Oswald, Beatles, Dab, Way, Pretender, Black, Mist, 7th (all from Plunderphonics)
Charles Dodge: Any Resemblance Is Purely Coincidental
DJ Food: Raiding the 20th Century (http://www.ubu.com/sound/dj_food.html)

Reading:
John Oswald, “Bettered by the Borrower” pp 131-137
Chris Cutler, “Plunderphonia” pp 138-156

Listening:
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Studien I & II
Morton Subotnick, Touch and Silver Apples of the Moon
Aphex Twin, selections from Richard D. James Album and drukqs
Wendy Carlos, Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Initial Experiments narration (from Switched on Bach)
Pauline Oliveros I of IV

Reading:
Karlheinz Stockhausen “Electronic and Instrumental Music” pp370-380
Karlheinz Stockhausen et al., “Stockhausen vs. the ‘Technocrats’” pp 381-385

Ongoing: Final Paper and Final Composition

EMPAC
onedotzero film festival: adventures in motion
April 17 - April 19 | Theater
London-based onedotzero showcases moving-image installations and performances alongside of innovative, visually progressive short films, animations, music videos and motion graphics at EMPAC, the only U.S. stop on its 2008-2009 international tour.

Saturday, April 18th, 2009
BIG DEEP - A benefit concert for Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
The Kitchen, NYC
This concert may be broadcast on http://www.ustream.tv/ more details to come.

Current practices in Computer Music.
Bring first draft of 2nd project to class.
5-page history/theory papers due.

Listening: TBD

Reading:
László Molholy-Nagy, “Production-Reproduction: Potentialities of the Phonograph” pp 331-333

Christian Marclay & Yasunoa Tone, “Record, CD, Analog, Digital” pp 341-347

Ongoing: Final Composition