Physical Interfaces for Experimental Listening - SOMA1601
Description
This workshop will introduce students to the history of sound in art in conjunction with developing a technical understanding of experimental practices in analogue sound outside of the digital studio. This workshop will develop this knowledge and skill base with an interdisciplinary approach. Using a diverse historical and theoretical timeline, students will be introduced to practices and concepts in experimental sound and listening, learning to engage critically with the medium. This course will start with the human body in its natural and industrial environment, responding to architecture and physical structures. The class will progress to the development of hand made technologies for listening including a range of different microphones, radios and low-voltage hand made electronic machines and instruments. In addition to acquiring strong practical skills, students will have individual guidance to develop their own works that could be expressed through a wide range of outcomes, some of these being installation, performance, electronic art, experimental music, sound art, sculpture and new media art.