課程資訊
課程名稱
 聲景與聲音藝術
Soundscape/sound Art: Concepts and Practices 
開課學期
 105-1 
授課對象
 文學院  音樂學研究所  
授課教師
  
課號
 Music5083 
課程識別碼
 144 U1110 
班次
  
學分
 3 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 選修 
上課時間
 星期四7,8,9(14:20~17:20) 
上課地點
  
備註
 總人數上限：16人 
  
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課程概述

This course deals with the concept of SOUNDSCAPE and the practices of SOUND ART. Soundscape is a mental tool to listen to and to understand our environment; it is also an engaging dialogue with our “Umwelt.” Sound art is an array of actions and interventions to enhance and distort our perception of sounds.

This course includes,

- Presentations of researches and artwork dealing with these topics. Video documentation, attentive listening, explanation of the background of the artists and discussion about the aesthetic questions that they raise.

- Practical processes. The students are asked to develop some basic elements of the practices. They'll need to use their creativity and their sensitivity to produce some experiences which will be shared and discussed.

- Collective creation based on personal research. Each student is invited to collaborate in small working groups, exploring some chosen soundscapes in the Taipei basin.

Note: please don't come late and do not use laptops/tablets/phones during the class.  

課程目標
 待補 
課程要求
 1. Endless Listening

What's up with (y)our ears ?
Starts from the first class and will continue all the semester. Written and spoken notes about daily sound environments or unusual situations encountered in the city. At least one significant anecdote will be shared and discussed every week during the class. It will include narration and in-site sound recording. Texts can be first be written then read and recorded in the place. Or improvised, spoken and recorded directly in the situation, then transcribed. One must consider those snapshots as short but autonomous sound pieces. Between 1 and 3 minutes. Will be presented online, on our blog.

2. Sonic Exploration

Make us vibrate and think with the sounds. Three different locations are chosen for this semester. They are all in Taipei City, and you might never visited them. Using audition and audio technology, students will explore and gather sounds and develop a site-specific project in between audio documentary and sound creation.
Should be done by groups of two (eventually three). Must include edited and organized environmental sound recordings and narration made by the participants and/or interviews with people met during the project. These pieces aim to be at the same time the audio equivalent of an essay or research article and an artistic work made of sound, proposing a personal (distorted ?) perspective about listening and living in "this" place. Duration should be approximately 10 min.

*Proposed topics (which hopefully may connect with the participants background/interests) :

- Immersive noises
Traffic at its peak, crowd, saturation of public space, economical and acoustic territories
- Historical soundscape
About the distance between what we hear today and the historical aspect of a urban spot
- No man's lands
Sounds in ruins and deserted places, parking lots and other underground storages, empty streets, shopping malls in the early morning
- Surrounding Hills
Fauna activities, changes of the seasons, ecosystems in interaction with human, threatened natural environment 
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
  
指定閱讀
 待補 
參考書目
 待補 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
    
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
Week 1
 9/15  Moon festival 
Week 2
 9/22  Presentation and discussion about the class/exercises/projects and chosen sites.
Listening to sound works by the previous year students. 
Week 3
 9/29  Introduction about the recording equipment/techniques (microphones, recorders, headphones) and field recording practices. 
Week 6
 10/20  Documentation of sound and sound archives. Bioacoustics (Chris Watson, reference to Umwelt) and ethnomusicology (Steven Feld, some ideas about Sound Culture) 
Week 8
 11/03  Sound editing (montage) and mixing. Comparison with cinema (Walter Ruttmann, Stan Brakhage). Introduction to software editing (Reaper). 
Week 11
 11/24  Learning more about editing and mixing (Reaper).
Acousmatic situations. Non-mediated (ex. Ornithology). Sound installation (Max Neuhaus), loudspeaker virtuosity in Musique concrète. Discussion about loudspeakers in public space. 
Week 13
 12/08  Radio. Electromagnetic phenomena (natural radio), radiophonic theater (Orson Welles), radio-art (Tetsuo Kogawa, Luc Ferrari). 
Week 14
 12/15  Listening bodies. The ear. Interacting/improvising with the soundscape (Akio Suzuki, Kiyoharu Kuwayama). 
Week 17
 1/05  Last developments and following the personal projects. 
Week 18
 1/12  Collective listening and public presentation.