Class Sound Culture

This UC is central in the area of ¿¿Sound Studies, intending to create in the students an understanding of the influences of sound in the constitution of a point of view on the world;

To problematize the contemporary arts;

Understand the relationships between the arts of sound, space and technique;

Critical position on the contemporary arts from the sense of hearing;

Understand the mediations exercised by sound technical reproduction;

Understand the qualities of sound in the artistic object constitution and the immersion of the human in the soundscape;

the new frontiers of the art of sound from the digital.

Brief history of acoustics
The sense of hearing
Qualities
Qualitative distinction with the sense of sight
The representations of hearing and vision
Sound and technique
The relationship between noise and technique
The invention of sound mediation apparatus
The immersion of the subject
Natural shorthand
And the sound
And deviation with playback devices
Sound and the arts
Literatures of the 19th century
The vanguards of the twentieth century
Reproduction techniques
Recording and playing the sound
The diffusion of the arts
The diffusion apparatus
The microphone and the speaker;
Its influence on the alteration of artistic objects.
The sound as a product.
Changes in artistic reception and production.
The change in the production and diffusion of the art.
Noise, music and society.
The space of sound objects.
The body as medium and instrument.
Noise as a productive concept.

Student attendance is important, so only students with at least 70% attendance can have continuous assessment.
Continuous assessment is carried out in two moments, with different weightings. A frequency (60%) and a 
soundscape report (40%).

Attali, J., Noise-The Political Economy of Music, Minneapolis/London: U.of Minnesota Press, 1985.

Cage, J., Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage, London: Marion Boyars, 1978.

Chion, M., Áudio-Vision, Sound on Screen, New York: Columbia U.Press, 1994.

Erlmann, V., Hearing Cultures ¿ Essays on sound, Listening and Modernity, Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004.

Gitelman, L., Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines, Stanford: Stanford U. Press, 1999.

Kahn, D., and Gregory Whitehead, Wireless Imagination: sound and radio, and culture Avant-Gard, Cambridge: MIT, 1994.

Kahn, D., Noise, Water, Meat: a history of sound in the arts, Cambridge: MIT, 1999.

Ribeiro, L.C., O Mundo é uma Paisagem Devastada pela Harmonia, Lisboa: Ed. Vega, 2011.

Ribeiro, L.C., O Som Moderno ¿ Novas formas de criação e escuta, Lisboa: Edições Lusófonas, 2011.

Russolo, L., The Art of Noises, New York: Pendragon, 1986