Personal Narrative in Sound Performance and Installation
Neil Leonard
Associate Professor
Music Technology Division
Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA
This seminar provides a forum for students to explore the use of sound in installation and performance. The outcome if this class will be a research paper or public performance. Weekly reading and listening will provide a framework for critical thinking and project definition.
Discussions will examine the development of listening, the impact of technology and sound in interdisciplinary and site-specific work. Weekly group critiques will be instrumental in the development of all projects. Methods for producing installations/performances and leveraging source material will be explored.
Prerequisites:
Students will work with instruments and tools that they are adept in at the time the course begins.
Students must be approved by one of the following professors:
Dr. Prof. Sergio Durante
Direttore
Dipartimento di Storia delle arti visive e della musica
Giovanni De Poli
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Nicola Bernardini
Scuola di Musica Elettronica
Conservatorio C.Pollini Padova
Selected Reading will be assigned from the following books:
Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
by Douglas Kahn (Editor), Gregory Whitehead (Editor), Histories of Sound Once Removed
. Paperback: 466 pages
. Publisher: The MIT Press (July 25, 1994)
. Language: English
. ISBN: 026261104X
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (Paperback)
by Douglas Kahn
. Paperback: 472 pages
. Publisher: The MIT Press; Reprint edition (October 1, 2001)
. Language: English
. ISBN: 0262611724
The Open Work (Paperback)
by Anna Cancogni, David Robey (Introduction), Umberto Eco (Translator)
. Paperback: 320 pages
. Publisher: Harvard University Press (March 17, 2005)
. Language: English
. ISBN: 0674639766
The Conversations : Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Paperback)
. Paperback: 368 pages
. Publisher: Knopf (October 5, 2004)
. Language: English
. ISBN: 0375709827
Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman (Paperback)
. Paperback: 256 pages
. Publisher: Exact Change (January 26, 2001)
. Language: English
. ISBN: 1878972316
The Soundscape (Paperback)
. Paperback: 320 pages
. Publisher: Destiny Books (October 1, 1993)
. Language: English
. ISBN: 0892814551
Confronting Silence (Paperback)
. Paperback: 156 pages
. Publisher: Fallen Leaf Press (January 1, 1995)
. Language: English
. ISBN: 0914913360