notes from Seminar (to be developed):


types of ways of working

Naturalistic sound - Field recordings (compare with Field Painting)
Naturalistic sounds presented as Compositions - e.g. Eastley and Cusack; others
'Day For Night' example

Max Eastley Sound sculture link
sound sculptures
sound in sculpture

Use of recording studio - e.g. Glenn Gould

Natural world recreated/imitated
e.g. - Beethoven Pastoral Symphony

- Messiaen: use of synesthesia and notated birdsong
& esp. - Marcus Coates - recorded birdsong
arts.guardian.co.uk

Sonification - converting information into sound/music

Visual translation - 'colour organs' etc.

Manipulation of sound phenomena - e.g. Lucier's 'I am sitting in a room'

Sound Concrete - e.g. Pierre Schaeffer; Pierre Henry

Sound/utterance - e.g. Schwitter's UR Sonata

Speech (oral) material - rap/Bush of Ghosts/Reich & Jarvis (examples)
Text (consider - perhaps libretto/lyrics)

Original (synthesised) sounds - e.g. Stockhausen
creation of mimetic sound - Eno's Bells
Sampling in relation to this

Performance; the performative aspects of sound and music

Challenging of cultural conventions (partic. classical music) - Fluxus performance

Long sounds (duration in music) - laMonte Young etc.

Musical 'Minimalism' - use of short patterns: repeated / out of phase
Steve Reich
Philip Glass

Improvisation

Electronic sound 'performed' - use of replay/loudspeakers etc.

Soundtrack - film / video
Soundtrack - as a metaphor

Record as Cultural Unit - implications of this

Composition - written music - genres
sub genres such as 'Serialism' - Schonberg, Webern, Berg
Writing = Classical
Jazz = Sound Recording

Alternative ways of writing music/sound e.g. Cage; Wishart etc.

Consideration of possible Psychological aspects
e.g. Psychoacoustics (as a discipline)
e.g. the ways in which music may 'help structure' consciousness - Oliver Sachs' Dr. P example

Links:

arts.guardian.co.uk - Dawn Chorus by Marcus Coates

http://greenmuseum.org/c/vop/

new american radio

http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/home.htm

http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk/

http://www.cdemusic.org/soundfiles/environmentalsoundsamples.html

http://www.stevereich.com/

http://www.ubu.com/sound/
http://www.ubu.com/sound/young.html
http://www.ubu.com/sound/glass_p.html
http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html


Please send further links/references for inclusion to: p1ramsay@plymouth.ac.uk