Sound Studies and Sound Theory
The Course serves as an introduction to concepts and practices of Sound Studies with an emphasis on fundamental elements of the Sound Theory. The class features a combination of lectures, demonstrations, seminars and collective listening sessions. We will aim at contextualizing and experientially disentangle multiple notions of Sound and Sound Studies as:
- referring to a culturally defined, a historically and locally very specific and transformational concept of sound in general;
- referring to the operations of hearing and listening as performed by the whole body of human creatures in a specific cultural and historical context (and not referring to listening by the ears only)
- referring to the specific concept of hearing and listening by concentrating only on the ears as listening organs (and not referring to the whole body in kinesthetic motion in everyday life as listening organ);
- referring to non-human modes of listening of animals and machines;
- referring to the very specific cultural concept of sound as proposed and disseminated by research and teaching on physical acoustics;
- referring to a set of creative practices mobilizing sound as artistic material.
Instructor: Dr. Marcin Pietruszewski