IAHIS 2515 History of Sound Art
Through an exploration that embraces sound and hearing as channels for creative expression, this course examines the history of the medium of sound in the arts, establishing a conceptual foundation for the understanding of sonic art aesthetics and practices. Students will explore the cross-disciplinary practices of artists who have employed sound to complement their visual work, composers who have used sound to expand the boundaries of music, and artists who focus on working with sound as its own medium. Topics include noise, sound-poetry, acoustic ecology and environmental listening, acoustics and perception, narrative storytelling, non-Western and experimental approaches to musicality, installation and site-specificity, live performance, the influence of technology upon sound art production.