AART-222-01 SOUND IN ART FALL 2016

Instructor: Scott Benzel Graduate Assistant: Owen Hutchinson Lectures / Studio: Tuesdays 9-11:50 A216 Office Hours by appointment Mondays and Tuesdays please email to make an appointment: [email protected] or [email protected]

Required texts: ALL TITLES REFER TO TEXTS IN THE PDF FOLDER

Course Description: This course will focus on the creation and implementation of sound in performance, recording, and installation contexts. In addition, we will examine of the history of Sound in Art (with an emphasis on sound in art contexts) and Art in Sound (with an emphasis on sound in popular and experimental music). This will be a studio / lecture hybrid with class time split between employing software platforms and analog methods to produce sound work and lectures, screenings, readings, and listening periods. Participants will generate single or multichannel sound works for installation, performance, or recording with an emphasis on augmenting or expanding existing practices.

Approximately one third of class time will be devoted to lectures and two thirds of class time will be devoted to presentations, studio workshops, and critique. Presentation periods allow 2 class members to share previous or current work or others' works with which they are engaging. Class members have access to the Art School's Recording Studio and computers in the Print Lab equipped with software for sound work.

In addition to regular attendance, one presentation and two sound-related projects must be completed for a passing grade. One project should be related to the participant's existing practice. One project should extend the participant's existing practice. Projects may be collaborative within or outside of the class.

Due to the time-based nature of sound practice, material will be excerpted or edited throughout the lectures, listening sessions, and critiques. Please be mindful of time when presenting material.

Grading will be as follows: 1. Attendance and participation = 40% 2. Midterm Critique and Final Presentation, Project 1= 30% 3. Midterm Critique and Final Presentation, Project 2= 30%

Attendance and Behavior: Please arrive on time. 2 or more unexcused absences for lectures or critiques will result in a lowered grade, more than 3 will result in a failing grade. Please do not sleep, talk, text, use the internet, laptop, or phone for non-class-related purposes during class or you will be asked to leave and counted absent.

1.Tuesday Sept. 13 Introduction and Overview

Studio Workshop: Multichannel Recording Studio overview; Logic, Ableton Live overview

AART 222-01 SOUND IN ART FALL 2016 2. Tuesday Sept. 20 The Avant Garde through the Mid Century

Luigi Russolo, Intonorumori, The Art of Noise, Hugo Ball, Karawana, Kurt Schwitters, Ursonate, , and , Marcel Duchamp, Erratum Musical, George Antheil, Ballet Mechanique, George Antheil and Hedi Lamarr's Spread Spectrum Technology; Johanna M. Beyer, Pierre Schaffer, Pierre Henry, Musique Concrete, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Electronic Music, Microphonie I, Iannis Xenakis, Le Corbusier, and Edgar Varese, The Phillips Pavillion, Olivier Messiaen, Oiseaux Exotiques, Harry Bertoia, Sonambient, Cathy Berberian, Sequenza III, per voce femminile and Stripsody

Reading: Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noise Iqbal and Pendergrass, Realism in Messaien Birdsong (skim)

Screening: Luigi Russolo's Intonarumori reconstruction Satie, Picasso, Diagilev - Parade reconstruction Cathy Berberian, Stripsody

Presentation 1

Studio Workshop: Digitizing material, Sound Editing

3. Tuesday Sept. 27 Cage and After; Art and Sound

John Cage, Water Walk, Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, Silent Prayer into 4'33; David Tudor, Rainforest IV; Fluxus et al: Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Zen for Head, Charlotte Moorman, Yoko Ono, Yves Klein, Monotone Symphony, William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Cutups; Art and Sound: Robert Filliou, Bruce Nauman, Alvin Lucier, Max Neuhaus, Annea Lockwood, Dennis Oppenheim, Group Ongaku

Reading: John Cage, Notations (skim) Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik et al., Fluxus Performance Workbook (skim)

Screening: John Cage, Water Walk, 4'33 Alison Knowles, Newspaper Music Yves Klein, Monotone Symphony Yoko Ono, Selected Works William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, The Cutups Bruce Nauman, Violin Tuned D.E.A.D. Alvin Lucier, Music for Solo Performer Dennis Oppenheim, Two Stage Transfer Drawing and Forming Sounds

Presentation 2

Studio Workshop: The Experimental Score

4. Tuesday Oct. 4 Systems Music, Tape Music, and Early Electronic Music

Systems Music: Elgar, The Enigma Variations, Erik Satie, , Serialism, Milton Babbitt, Colon Nancarrow, Steve Reich, Pendulum Music; Joe Jones, Remko Scha, Machine Guitars; Tape Music into Electronic Music: Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Tape Recorder Music, John Cage, Fontana Mix, Lois and Bebe Barron, Forbidden Planet, , You're No Good,

AART 222-01 SOUND IN ART FALL 2016 Steve Reich, Come Out, Pauline Oliveros, I of IV, Morton Subotnick, Wendy Carlos, Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, Pot Au Feu, Robert Fripp and , No Pussyfooting, Eliane Radigue, Trilogie Au Mort

Reading: Milton Babbitt, Who Cares if you Listen?

Screening: et al., Vexations Gyorgy Ligeti, Poeme Symphonique for 100 metronomes Steve Reich, Pendulum Music Delia Derbyshire documentary (excerpts) Eliane Radigue documentary (excerpts) Terry Riley, Solo Live

Presentation 3

Studio Workshop: Sound Manipulation Intensive

5. Tuesday Oct. 11 The , The Desert, New Music

The Theatre of Eternal Music: Lamonte Young, Marion Zazeela, Angus Maclise, Tony Conrad, John Cale; The Desert: Brian Jones presents the Master Musicians of Jajouka, Iannis Xenakis, Persepolis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stimmung in the Jeita Caves, Robert Wilson, Ka Mountain, Steve Reich, Desert Music; New Music: Giacinto Scelsi, Megan Roberts, Ruth Anderson, Phillip Glass, Meredith Monk, Robert Ashley

Reading: Roberta Brown, Iannis Xenakis, Xenakis on Xenakis (excerpts) Tristan Murail, Giacinto Scelsi Liner Notes: New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media: Women In Electronic Music - 1977

Screening: Stockhausen in the Jeita Caves (Lebanon) (excerpt) Pandit Pran Nath, Lamonte Young, Marion Zazeela, Terry Riley, Live in Rome Peter Greenaway, from Four American Composers: Meredith Monk, Robert Ashley (excerpts)

Presentation 4

Studio Workshop: Creating Multi-channel Sound Installations

6. Tuesday Oct. 18 Artist's sound, Artist's music, Artist's bands

Karel Appel, Dieter Roth, Jean Tinguely, Andy Warhol's Tapes, Laurie Anderson, Early Works, Joseph Beuys, Martin Kippenberger, The Poetics, Destroy All Monsters, Maryanne Amacher, Christian Marclay, Gray, Menthol Wars, Electrophilia, Rodney Graham, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Anthony Burdin, Terry Adkins, Charles Gaines, Stephen Prina, Marina Rosenfeld, Tony Conrad, Invented Acoustical Tools, The Red Krayola and Art and Language

Reading: Brandon LaBelle, Other: Maryanne Amacher

Screening: Jean Tinguely, Homage to New York Rodney Graham, Lobbing Potatoes at a Gong Laurie Anderson, Early Works Joseph Beuys, Sonne Staat Reagan

AART 222-01 SOUND IN ART FALL 2016 Christian Marclay, Various Works

Presentation 5

Studio Workshop: Sound for Picture

7. Tuesday Oct. 25 Afrofuturism; Avant Garde into Psychedelia, Pop, and Punk

Sun Ra, Samuel R. Delany, Alice Coltrane, George Russell, Miles Davis, Parliament Funkadelic, Earth Wind and Fire, Octavia Butler, Rammellzee, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Grace Jones, the Electrifying Mojo, Cybotron, Jeff Mills, Hieroglyphic Being, Erykah Badu, Ralph Lemon; The Vocoder and Autotune; Avant Garde - Psychedelia: Andy Warhol and , The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, White Noise, The Church of Anthrax, Can, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Bruce Conner, the birth of the Music Video, and Punk; Patti Smith, Dan Graham, Rock My Religion, The Fall, Leigh Bowery, and Michael Clark, I am Curious Oranj; Cal Arts Pop: Laurie Anderson, Tony Oursler, William Wegman, Ariel Pink, The Liars

Readings: Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant than the Sun (excerpt) William S. Burroughs, Rock Magic

Screening: Sun Ra, Space is the Place trailer and excerpt Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel Jeff Mills, Live Grace Jones, selected works Andy Warhol, The Exploding Plastic Inevitable (excerpt) Bruce Conner, Breakaway (with Toni Basil), Mongoloid, America is Waiting Dan Graham, Rock My Religion (excerpts) I am Curious Oranj (excerpts) Laurie Anderson, O Superman Tony Oursler / Sonic Youth, Tunic William Wegman / New Order, Blue Monday Ariel Pink, Put Your Number in my Phone

Presentation 6

Studio Time: Preparation for Midterm Presentation / Critique

8. Tuesday Nov. 1 MIDTERM PRESENTATIONS / CRITIQUES

9. Tuesday Nov. 8 Politics, Society, and Music

Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra, The Cockettes, The Mothers of Invention, , Velvets through Transformer, The Last Poets, James Brown, Grandmaster Flash,The Message, Adrian Piper, Burning Spear, Malcolm McLaren, The Sex Pistols, Crass, X Ray Spex, The Slits, The Clash, Desperate Bicycles, Tom Robinson Band, The Gang of Four, Fela Kuti and the Movement of the People, Plastic People of the Universe and The Velvet Revolution, Nation of Ulysses, Nervous Gender, Genesis Breyer P’orridge, Bikini Kill and Riot Grrrl, Queercore, Renee Green, Public Enemy, Killer Mike, Kendrick Lamar

Reading: Cornelius Cardew, Stockhausen Serves Imperialism (excerpt)

AART 222-01 SOUND IN ART FALL 2016 Lester Bangs, Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves Dan Graham, New Wave Rock and the Feminine Adrian Piper, Notes on Funk I (excerpt) Mike Kelley, Cross-Gender, Cross-Genre (excerpt)

Screening: Wild in the Streets, trailer The Cockettes, trailer Lou Reed, Interview, 1974 X Ray Specs, Oh Bondage Up Yours! Tom Robinson Band, Glad to Be Gay Adrian Piper, Funk Lessons Bikini Kill, Rebel Girl Nervous Gender, Live Killer Mike, Reagan Kendrick Lamar, Alright

Presentation 7

Studio Workshop: Recording the Voice, Recording the Band

10. Tuesday Nov. 15 Musical Cults and Outsiders

Erik Satie, Église Métropolitaine d'Art de Jésus Conducteur, Karlheinz Stockhausen: Sirius, Hermann Nitsch, Das Orgien Mysterien Theater, Eiizabeth Clare Prophet, Invocation for Judgement Against and Destruction of Rock Music, Deuter and The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, D and Kundalini Meditation Music, The Source Family and YaHoWa 13, Penetration: An Aquarian Symphony, Charles Manson, Lie, Thee Temple Ov Psychic Youth, Aum Shinrikyu; Outsiders: Harry Partch, Bobby Brown,The Enlightening Beam of Axonda, The Shaggs, Philosophy of the World

Reading: Ben Johnston, The Corporealism of Harry Partch

Screening: Eiizabeth Clare Prophet, Invocation for Judgment Against and Destruction of Rock Music Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Fear is the Master (excerpt) Herman Nitsch: Das Orgien Mysterien Theater (excerpts) A Message from Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth Aum Shinrikyu recruitment video

Presentation 8

Studio Workshop: Mastering, Dissemination, and Distribution

11. Tuesday Nov. 22 Noise, Deconstruction, Infrasound, Ultrasound

Antonin Artaud, The Theatre of Cruelty, Michael McClure, Ghost Tantras, Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Marina Abramovic, John Coltrane, Live in Seattle, Roscoe Mitchell, Non-ahh, Lou Reed, Metal Machine Music, Throbbing Gristle, Cosi Fanni Tutti, No Wave, Non, Whitehouse, Keiji Haino, Yasunao Tone, Merzbow, John Weise; Deconstruction and Dub: Lee 'Scratch' Perry, King Tubby, Scientist; Christof Migone, William Basinski, Oval, Philip Jeck; Infrasound and Ultrasound, Martin Kersels, Brown Sound, Frank Bretschneider, Isolation

AART 222-01 SOUND IN ART FALL 2016

Reading: Lester Bangs, Lester Bangs, The Greatest Ever Made The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Rated G Steve Goodman, Sonic Warfare (excerpt)

Screenings: Michael Mclure, Ghost Tantras Vito Acconci, Seedbed, Selected Works Chris Burden, Selected Works Marina Abramovic, Selected Early Works John Coltrane, at Monterrey Throbbing Gristle, live Whitehouse, live Scientist, In Studio Dub Sound Warfare vehicle demonstrations

Presentation 9

FINAL PRESENTATIONS / CRITIQUES

12. Tuesday Nov. 29 Furniture Music to Ambient, Environmental Sound, Electronic Music / Electronic Art Satie, Furniture Music, Eno, Discreet Music to Ambient Series, Bill Fontana, Walter Demaria, Bernhardt Leitner, Hildegard Westerkamp, World Soundscape Project, Akio Suzuki, Popol Vuh, Stan VanDerBeek, Laurie Spiegel, Kraftwerk, Ryoji Ikeda, Tristan Perich, Lucky Dragons

Reading: Martin Herbert, Infinity’s Border: Ryoji Ikeda

Screening: Stan VanDerBeek and Ken Knowlton, Poem Field #2, 1966 Popol Vuh, Improvisation 1971 Laurie Spiegel, Temporary Replacement Kraftwerk, The Robots Ryoji Ikeda, Selected Works

FINAL PRESENTATIONS / CRITIQUES

13. Tuesday Dec. 6 FINAL PRESENTATIONS / CRITIQUES

14. Tues. Dec. 13 FINAL PRESENTATIONS / CRITIQUES

AART 222-01 SOUND IN ART FALL 2016