Sound and Image in Experimental Cinema / Spring
 2007 / Allen S. Weiss

(Mondays 12:30 - 4:30)

Readings

Rick Altman, Sound Theory, Sound Practice
Douglas Kahn & Gregory Whitehead, eds., Wireless
 Imagination
Allen S. Weiss, ed., Experimental Sound & Radio
Allen S. Weiss, Breathless
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

Electroacoustics /
 http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/index.htm

Requirements: Attendence is compulsory. The grade
 will be primarily determined by the final research paper (15-20
 pages), which is due on the last day of class. (Prior approval of a one-page,  hard copy, topic proposal is required.) Class participation is a secondary consideration concerning grades.

Jan  22 :   Introduction:  Audio Paradigms:
 Technology & Nature
		Screening: The Shout
		Audition:  Whitehead, Principia Schizophonica
			     Berio, Visage

Jan  29 :   Dada and Surrealism:  The Specificity
 & Heterogeneity of Sound Art
		Screenings: Entre'acte  
			       L'âge d'or
		Auditions: Satie, Entre'acte cinématographique
 			     Schwitters, Ursonata
		Readings:  Wireless Imagination, 1-195
			     Experimental Sound & Radio, 1-8, 57-73,
 97-106
 			     Sound Theory, Sound Practice, 1-31
			     A. Weiss, "Between the Sign of the
 Scorpion and the Sign of the Cross"

Feb   5 :   Artaud:  Psychopathology & Radio Bodies
		Slides: August Neter
	     	Screening: Heaven and Earth Magic
		Auditions: Artaud, Pour en finir avec le
 jugement de dieu
			     Wölfli, [music]			     
			     Migone, Transpiring Transistors 
			     Whitehead, Pressures of the Unspeakable;
			     Galas, Plague Mass
		Readings:  Wireless Imagination, 253-263,
 269-329
			     Experimental Sound & Radio, 27-41
			     Breathless, 115-138
			     Gregory Whitehead, "Principia
 Schizophonica" & "Radio Art le Mômo"
			     Antonin Artaud, "To Have Done With the
 Judgment of God"

Feb  12 :   Acousmetrics:  Sites & Nowhere
		Screening: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
		Readings:  Experimental Sound & Radio, 22-26,
 42-52, 55-56, 89-94, 95-96
			     Sound Theory, Sound Practice, 35-64
			     Breathless, 1-27 and 29-66
			     Mary Ann Doane, "Ideology and the
 Practice of Sound Editing"

Feb  19 :   [Holiday]

Feb  26  :   Mechanistics & Electronics
		Screening: Forbidden Planet
		Auditions: Varèse, Nancarrow, Ligeti,
 electronic music
		Readings: Breathless, 87-114
			    Experimental Sound & Radio, 167-174
			    John Cage, "The Future of Music"

Mar   5 :   The Last Gesamtkunstwerk
		Screening: slides [The Philip's Pavillion]
		Auditions: Varèse, Poème électronique
			     Xenakis, Concret P-H and La Légende
 d'Eer 

Mar  12 :   [Spring Break]

Mar  19 :   Lettrism
		Screening: Le film est déjà commencé?

Mar  26 :   Situationism
		Screening: La société du spectacle
		Reading: Society of the Spectacle

Apr    2:    Cutting & Phasing
		Screenings:  The Flicker
			       Arnulf Rainer
			       T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
			       Critical Mass
			       Passage à l'acte
		Auditions: Cage, Reich, Burroughs
		Readings: Wireless Imagination, 409-437
			    Experimental Sound & Radio, 73-80
			    Sergei Eisenstein, "A Dialectic Approach
 to Film Form"
			    Sergei Eisenstein, "Methods of Montage"
			    William Burroughs, "Electronic Revolution"

Apr   9 :     Glissandi
		 Screening: Wavelength
		 Auditions: Varèse, Cage, Xenakis, Ligeti

Apr  16 :   New Paradigms of Spatiality and
 Landscape:  Displacements &
Disintegrations
		Screenings:   Eaux d'artifice  
	     		         S.S.S.S.S.S.
		Auditions: Cage, Whitehead, Messiaen, Gould,
 Lucier, Hudak
		Reading: Experimental Sound & Radio, 125-134,
 151-166

Apr  23 :  Noise & Silence, Image and Darkness
		Screenings:  Gloria!  
			        Zorns lemma		
		Auditions: Cage, Schaeffer, etc.
		Readings: Wireless Imagination, 373-407
			    John Cage, "Experimental Music"
			    Hollis Frampton, "Notes on Composing in
 Film"
			    Allen S. Weiss, "Poetic Justice"

Apr  30 :  Forms of Narrative Montage
		Screenings: Ken Jacobs, Tom, Tom, The Piper's
 Son
			       Nam June Paik, Zen for Film
		Auditions: Gregory Whitehead, Dead Letters
			     Julia Loktev, Letters From Loveland
		Readings: Breathless, 67-85
			    Experimental Sound & Radio, 107-115