Lecture 6: AudioVisual Sculpture

Joseph Beuys & Social Sculpture
The Pack & Other Works, Joseph Beuys
Plus-Minus (1964) Nam Jun Paik, Karlheinz Stockhausen & Charlotte Moorman
Process Music & Karlheinz Stockhausen
Billy Klüver
Robert Rauschenberg
E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology
Oracle (1965) & Pepsi Pavilion (1970), Billy Klüver & Robert Rauschenberg
If/ Then (2001), Ken Feingold
Objective Sound (2007), Bill Fontana
Bill Fontana's Sound Sculpture

Reading for Chung Yeung Festival

Synesthesia and Intersenses: Intermedia by Dick Higgins (1965)
Dick Higgins, one of the Founders of Fluxes Movement
Fluxes, a movement founded during 1960s-80s

Inspirations/ Entertainment:
Paul Granjon, Robotics/ Performance Artist
Paul Granjon on how to create interactive sound sauage

Lecture 5: AudioVisual Improvisation

Links:
Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin (1936)
Allvision by Stenia Vasulka
Displacements by Michael Naimark
Playtime by Jacques Tati
Frequency & Volume by Rafael Lozeno-Hemmer
Vox Populi by Don Ritter
MTV of Björk’s All is Full of Love by Chris Cunningham

Lab Exercise:
"Weightless" Video/ Audio

Video created by collaboration from all students

Lecture 4: Structure & Sound

Links:
Structuralism
Claude Lévi Strauss, the Cooked and the Raw
Jack Burnham, Structure of Art
Marcel Duchamp, Aire De Paris
Sol_LeWitt, open & modular structure
Le Corbusier
Edgard Varèse
Iannis Xenakis
Philips Pavilion
Video of Poeme Electronique
TimeSquare by Max Neuhaus
Video Documentation of TimeSquare

Lab Exercise:
DIY Piezo Microphone & discover the embedded sound in various structures
Tutorial

Inspirations - Sound Installation (mechanical):
Untitled Sound Objects (Switzerland)
Ed Osborn (USA)
Edwin Van De Heidi (Netherlands)

Inspirations - DIY electronnics/ instruments, Performances:
FM3 (China)
Sinewave Orchestra (Japan)
The Breadboard Band (Japan)

Listening & Reading for Mid Autumn Festival

Trevor Wishart "Red Bird"
Trevor Wishart "Red Bird" Audio

Lecture 3: Soundscape & Concrète

Links:
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros & Deep Listening
Psychoacoustic
Basics of Psychoacoustic
Critical Bands & Perception
Pierre Schaeffer
Musique Concrète
World Soundscape Project
Mikrophonie I by Karlheinz Stockhausen
Soundbridge Köln/San Francisco by Bill Fontana

Labs:
Group I - Inter-computer sound recording
Gropu II - Mobile phone sound recording

Lecture 2: Intro to Digital Audio

Links:
Audacity Tutorials
Sampling frequency
Digital to analog converter
Analog to digital converter
MIDI
Cables & Connections

Lab Exercise:
Create a sound poetry in Tomasso Marinetti's Style