Week 3: September 15—September 21, Phelps 207
Monday: Musique Concrète
Readings:
- Sound Unbound: Articles 6
- Further suggested reading in a history of electronic music: On-line article: T. Holmes: Chapter 5, pp. 77—112, Chapter 6, pp. 131—134. To view these articles, log in to smb://unison.yu.yale.edu/content server, using your NetID and password. Then go to: Music 295a Course Materials: Readings
Listening:
- Pierre Schaffer: Étude aux chemins de fer (1948)
- Pierre Schaffer: Étude aux tourniquets (1948)
- Pierre Schaffer: Étude violette (1948)
- Pierre Schaffer: Étude noire (1948)
- Pierre Schaffer: Étude pathétique (1948)
- Pierre Schaffer and Pierre Henry: Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul (1950)
- Edgard Varese: Poeme Electronique (1958)
- Iannis Xenakis: Concret PH (1958)
Wednesday: Sampling, Editing and Fragmenting
Readings:
- Sound Unbound: Articles 2, 9 and 24
- Further suggested reading in a history of electronic music: On-line: T. Holmes: Chapter 6, pp. 113—131. To view these articles, log in to smb://unison.yu.yale.edu/content server, using your NetID and password. Then go to: Music 295a Course Materials: Readings
Listening:
- John Cage: Imaginary Landscape I (1939)
- J. Cage: Imaginary Landscape IV (1951)
- J. Cage: Williams Mix (1952)
- Otto Luening: Low Speed (1952)
- Hugh Le Caine: Dripsody: An Étude for Variable Speed Recorder (Stereo Version, 1957)
- Iannis Xenakis: Bohor (1962)
Lab Session 1 Hours TBA, YalMusT Lab, Studio B16A, 143 Elm Street
- Editing and fragmenting in Wave Editor and Frequency.