Sound Gallery

Display Schedule

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
373SG	credit	2	24 seminar hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 32 to 42 hours of self-study	English	summer

Subject guarantor

Name of lecturer(s)

Sara Patrícia DA SILVA PINHEIRO

Department

The subject provides Department of Audiovisual Studies

This course includes the historical context and basic theoretical concepts of sound in gallery from avant-garde experiments with sound in the 1970s to contemporary practices. In general, the subject relates to a work of art dominated by the medium of sound and with an emphasis on the gallery space, which encompasses the full range of artistic approaches, including those that incorporate elements of performance. In accordance with the framework of this lecture, the course is not structured chronologically, but on the basis of key themes and artistic practices towards an understanding of sound installations.

Learning outcomes

Students become aware of the uses of sound in the gallery. Students begin to understand how sound propagates in space and affects the experience of the artwork. Students become aware of the wide literature on sound-gallery-art and current thought in theory of Sound Studies.

Prerequisites and other requirements

none

Literature

AUGOYARD, Jean Francois; TORGUE, Henri. Sonic Experience: A Guide to Everyday Sounds. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2006. 230 pages. ISBN 978-0773529427.

KELLY, C. 2017. Gallery Sound. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

ROGERS, H. 2013. Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music. Oxford University Press, USA.

DEMERS, Joanna, Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 216 pages. ISBN 9780195387667.

HEGARTY, Paul. Rumour and Radiation, Sound In Video Art. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. 216 pages. ISBN 9780415904575.

KASSABIAN, A. 2013. Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity. Univ of California Press.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Students will be evaluated according to their attendance – min. 75%, participation in class, commitment to the subjects and final presentation.

Note

Week 1 (Feb 10) – Introduction to the class: concepts, goals and tasks

Week 2 (Feb 17) – Space Acoustics in theory: propagation, resonance and reverb

Week 3 (Feb 24) – Sound phemenology: Robert Morris (the box with the sound of its own making, 1999) and Janek Schaefer (recorded delivery, 1995)

Week 4 (Mar 3) – Sound Resonance and Feedback: Alvin Lucier (I am sitting in a Room, 1969); Eliane Radigue, (Feedback works, 1969/70)

Week 5 (Mar 10) – Sound walking theory: Lockwood, Westerkamp and Kubisch

Week 6 (Mar 17) - Sound walking practice: natural, amplified and composed

Week 7 (Mar 24) – EAM, Multichannel and Spatial Music: Philips Pavilion, Expo’58; Otoacoustic emissions: Maryanne Amacher (Sound Characters, 1999; Living Room 1980)

Week 8 (Mar 31) – Sound Performance: Dick Raajmarkers (Intona, 1992)

Week 9 – (April 7) - Installing sound in space: technical riders and set-ups

Week 10 (April 14) – Space Acoustics in practice: impulse response, amplification and phasing in the gallery

Week 11 (April 21) – Velikonoční pondělí

Week 12 (April 28) – student’s presentations

Schedule for winter semester 2024/2025:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon	room SF 3116 Studio FAMU - VR LAB (Klimentská ulice) DA SILVA PINHEIRO S. 16:30–18:55 (lecture parallel1)
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Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	16:30–18:55	Sara Patrícia DA SILVA PINHEIRO	Studio FAMU - VR LAB Klimentská ulice		lecture parallel1

The subject is a part of the following study plans

Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor_2020 (Required elective subjects)