Disruptive: Noise as Material             

Sound & the Material  |   UC Berkeley, October 20-21

Directions:

We’ll be meeting on the UC Berkeley campus in two places:

On Friday 10/20 in Wheeler Hall, rooms 300 and 306

On Saturday 10/21 in the Center for New Music & Audio Technologies, 1750 Arch Street, north of Campus.

Parking information coming soon!

Schedule:

Day 1 (Friday)  10/20
•    1pm – Meet and greet//Introductions (Wheeler 306)
•    2pm – Public Talk with Eric Porter (Wheeler 300)
•    3:30pm – first session (Wheeler 306)
•    6pm – dinner / social gathering / sound activity (TBD)

Day 2 (Saturday)  10/21
•    9am – second session// discussion (CNMAT)
•    11:30am – Public talk with Steven Feld (CNMAT)
•    1pm – Lunch @ Wheeler
•    2pm— Third session// discussion (Wheeler 306)
•    5pm – Planning for next meeting (Wheeler 306)
•    6pm – Dinner
•    _pm – Social gathering / sound activity (TBD)

Readings:

• “Deep Listening Meditations: Egypt” by Pauline Oliver’s 
• “First” by Paul Hegarty; from Noise/Music: A History
• “Acoustic Multinaturalism, the Value of Nature, and the Nature of Music in Ecomusicology” by Ana María Ochoa Gautier; from bounderies 2 (Feb 2016)
• “I Am Sitting In A Room” by Alvin Lucier; 1969 (on Ubu web) & 1981 (liner notes and youtube)
• “The Future of Music: Credo” by John Cage (1937)
• “Acoustemology” by Stephen Feld; from Keywords in Sound, David Novak ed.

Suggested additional Readings

• “Soundings” by Suzanne Delahanty; from Sound by Artists, Dan Lander & Michah Lexier eds.
• “Your Mouth is Your Lorry!” How honk horns voice the acoustic materiality of reputation in Accra