DXARTS 460: Digital Sound

Tues/Thur: 9.40-12.20 Raitt 117

Instructor -Nicolás Varchausky varchaus@u.washington.edu
Office hours - please email for an appointment

Syllabus | Schedule & Homework | Reading/Listening List | Student Projects | Resources

READINGS AND LISTENING LIST

All materials, if not provided on the schedule page, will be uploaded to the Shares/460 folder on the Atlas server, which you can access from the lab in Raitt 129. Log on to one of the computers with your UW NetID and your password, look for the Shares network icon then look in the class folder.

READINGS

- Ballora: Sound and music technology (chapter 2 & 8)
- Bregman: Auditory scene analysis (chapter 9)
- Cage, John: The future of music (Silence, chapter 2)
- Russolo, Luigi: The art of noise
- Quignard, Pascal: Ocurre que las orejas no tienen párpados (El odio a la música, cap 2)
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz: As time passes (Die Reihe nº6)
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz: Structure and experiential time (Die Reihe nº2)
- Boulez, Form
- Ballora, From The Essentials of Music Technology: "Music and Acoustics"
- Wishart, Trevor: On sonic art (chapter 1)

LISTENING

- Bach (Webern), Fuga Ricercare
- Bértola, Eduardo: Penetraciones
- Cage, John: Sonatas e interludios para piano preparado (1946-48)
- Cage, John: Williams Mix
- Debussy, Claude: La catedral sumergida (1904)
- Harvey, Johnathon: Mortuos Plango Vivos Voce
- Ives, Charles: Firemen’s parade (1906)
- Ligeti, Gyorgy: Atmósferas
- Ligeti, Gyorgy: Artikulation (1958)
- Lucier, Alvin: I am sitting in a room (1970)
- Mathews, Max: Bicycle build for two (1961)
- Pampín, Juan: UOM (quadra)
- Russolo, Luigi: Awakening of a city (1921)
- Ruttmann, Walter: Weekend (1930)
- Schaeffer, Pierre: Étude aux chemins de fer (1948)
- Schoenberg, Arnold: Farben (1909)
- Stockhausen, K: Studie 2 (1954) [ Compact disc CD 4790 ]
- Stockhausen, K: Mikrophonie I (1964) [ Compact disc CD 4788 ] (ZIP)
- Stockhausen, K: Gesang der jünglinge (1954) [ Compact disc CD 4790 ]
- Stockhausen, K: Kontakte (1961) [ Compact disc CD 4789 ]
- Subtonick, Morton: Silver apples on the moon
- Varese, Edgar: Ionisation (1931) [ Compact disc CD 1793 ]
- Varese, Edgar: Poeme electronique (1957-58)
- Varchausky, Nicolás: Blanco de Zinc
- Wishart, Trevor: Red bird [Compact disc CD 8357]
- Xenakis, Iannis: Metastasis [Compact disc CD 2007]