Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:29:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Orpheus <cw_duff-AT-alcor.concordia.ca>
Subject: Re: Course Outline


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20th Century Avant-Garde Noise=09117-494B


Aden Evens=09=09aden-AT-who.net=09781 641 1798

Strathcona C-204=09Fridays, 2-5pm


Schedule:

Jan 8
Introduction
Assignment:
Begin listening log

Jan 15
Turn of the century music
Reading:
Arnold Schoenberg, "New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea" in Style and
Idea
Theodor Adorno, "Schoenberg" in Prisms
Murray Dineen, "Adorno and Schoenberg's Unanswered Question" in The Musical
Quarterly
Adorno on Berg in Quasi Una Fantasia
Deleuze and Guattari, "Micropolitics and Segmentarity" in A Thousand Plateaus

Jan 22
Mid century experimentalism and early electronics
Reading:
John Cage, No. 5 in Correspondence
Cage, excerpts from Silence
Pierre Boulez, No. 31 in Correspondence
Boulez, "Form" in Orientations
Karlheinz Stockhausen,  "Moment form", "Four Criteria", "Intuitive music",
and "Comme le temps passe"
Ronald Bogue, "Rhizomusicology" in SubStance
Deleuze on Boulez and Proust in Angelaki

Jan 29
Notation
Reading:
Jean-Charles Fran=E7ois, "Writing Without Representation and Unreadable
Notation" in Perspectives of New Music
Jerome Dokic in Angelaki on Cage and notation
Boulez, "Time, Notation, and Coding" in Orientations
Deleuze and Guattari, "The Smooth and the Striated" in A Thousand Plateaus
Harry Partch in Contemporary Composers
Assignment:
learn to read music (if you don't already know, get a friend to explain)

Feb 5, Feb 12
Minimalism
Reading:
Wim Mertens, American Minimal Music
Steve Reich, excerpts from Writings on Music
David Schwartz, excerpts on Reich from "Listening Subjects" in Perspectives
of New Music
Deleuze, excerpts on immemorial time and hidden repetition in Difference
and Repetition

Sound per se
Reading:
Reinier Plomp, "Music and the Ear" in the International Mozart Musicstudies
Conference Proceedings
Alvin Lucier in Words and Spaces
Assignment:
research acoustics

Feb 19
Late century classical
Reading:
Tony Conrad, liner notes to Early Minimalism Volume I
Alvin Lucier in Contemporary Composers
Milton Babbitt in Contemporary Composers
LaMonte Young interview in The Wire
LaMonte Young interview in Just Intonation Journal
LaMonte Young, "Romantic Symmetry" in Sound and Light
Tom DeLio, "Sound, Gesture, and Symbol" in Interface
Brian Eno, ""Generating and Organizing Variety in the Arts" in Breaking the
Sound Barrier

Feb 26
no class, suicide week

Mar 5
Music and sense
Reading:
Aden Evens, "Sound Ideas" in CRCL
John Rahn, "Differences" in Perspectives on New Music
Optional: Fran=E7ois Lyotard, "Plusieurs Silences" in Des dispositifs
pulsionnels, in French, on reserve
Assignment:
First paper due

Mar 12
Electronica and other musical directions
Reading:
John Fitzgerald in Angelaki on raves
Philip Tagg, excerpts on rave music's character
Tim Murphy in Angelaki on Boulez vs. Coleman
Deleuze and Guattari, "Of the refrain" in A Thousand Plateaus
DJ Spooky, two articles in Artforum and Parkett
Assignment:
Proposal due

Mar 19
Production/reproduction
Reading:
Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, 115-end
Ken Pohlmann, excerpts from Principles of Digital Audio
Jaques Attali, excerpts from Noise
Brian Massumi, excerpt from "Parables for the Virtual" (handout)
Assignment:
research music studio production, parts of studio, process, etc.

Mar 26
Technology
Reading:
Barry Truax, "Musical Creativity and Complexity at the Threshold of the
21st Century" in Interface
Agostino Di Scipio on music and technology in Angelaki
Assignment:
research types of synthesis

Apr 2
no class, Jesus dead

Apr 9
Wrap-up
Student presentations

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final paper due
final project due

Assignments:

1) Listening log
2) Papers
There are three required written submissions. The first is a short paper.
Then a proposal, describing both your final project and your ideas for
writing about it. Then, at the end of classes, the final project is due,
with written commentary to follow some weeks later.
3) Listening

Marking:

Class participation=0925%
Short paper=09=0915%
Final paper=09=0935%
Final project=09=0925%