CWL 581: Spring 2020

SCHEDULE

Date

Listening & Viewing

Reading

ways of hearing

what is sound? how do we listen?

Sterne, Part I & II, Ways of Hearing (Krukowski, 2017)

Sterne, Part III & IV

Sterne, Part IV & VI

—introductions—

—no class—

Piano & String Quartet (Feldman, 1985)

Harmonic Bridge; Fog Horns (Fontana)

1/23

1/30

2/6

2/13

echoes

2/20

2/27

3/5

3/12

Proust, Swann's Way, Lacoue-Labarthe

Cavarero, Voice; Calvino, "A King Listens"

Calvino, Invisible Cities; Waltham-Smith, "Cello Suites"

Eidsheim, (intro, ch. 2); Merleau-Ponty (selections)

silence and noise

—no class—

"Risveglio"; "Intonarumori"; Cage 4'33

Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)

"Hush" (Whedon, 1999); Bosker, "Louder"

3/19

3/26

4/2

4/9

—no class—

Russolo, Art of Noises; Voegelin, "Noise," "Silence"

Chion, Sound

Hagood, Hush

politics and environment

Disintegration Loops (Basinski, 2002-3)

Anywhen (2017); Le quattro volte (2010)


final paper due

4/16

4/23

4/30


5/11

Schafer, Soundscape

Attali, Noise; Adorno, "Fetish Character"

Voegelin, "Political Possibility," "Volumes"; Past, ch. 4