Welcome to Sound Projects

Sound, Noise, Silence, and Music - how do we define them? When we listen to these elements critically, how can we use them in our own work with an awareness of their social and political functions? This course will explore developments in sound art from the early-20th century to the present, to cultivate a critical ear for listening and creating. We will listen to work by artists who have blurred traditional boundaries of music, science, design, fine arts, and philosophy, and read critical writings in cultural studies, sound and media theory.

2007-11-07

Aural Postcards: Sound, Memory and the City

Aural Postcards: Sound, Memory and the City by Fran Tonkins (The Auditory Culture Reader 2003: 303)
This text talks about modes of listening in the urban environment. In particular it refers to the aspect of memory and sound: "This realation fo sound to memory is audibly present at the moment of 'recall', the melding of space, sound and memory there in the concept of 'resonance'; a movement in the air like sound you can touch."

This short text might be of interest to some of you since we spend some time this week discussing the concept of memory, and the phenemenology of sound in regard to memory and space.
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