TIM_B_037 Audiocultures Methodologies: theory and practice

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Filip Johánek (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Filip Johánek
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Tuesday 14:00–17:40 N41
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students will familiarize with various theoretical approaches to audioculture.
Apart from theoretical reflection of sound world students will also engage in practical outputs of audioculture and with specific possibilites of recording and changing the sound world through realizations of sound interventions/sound artworks.
Students will learn to identify keystones of audioculture in point of view of discussed author's conceptions. They will learn to record manifestations of audioculture and enter it as its co-creators as well.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the subject student will be able to:
- identify framework of particular sound artwork
- understand theoretical study regarding audioculture, sound dimension of our perceived reality, sound artwork
- be knowledgeable in basic possibilites of production of her/his own sound artwork/sound action
- work with basic equipment for recording sound
- perceive her/his own place in the world as in a sort of a way a place of co-creator of sound world
- have general awareness about its theoretical and practical aspects
- produce intentionally sound interventions
Syllabus
  • 1. audioculture, soundscape and sound studies
  • 2. media ecology, media ecology art and acoustic ecology
  • 3. field recordings/phonography and authorship's standopoint 4. oral history
  • 5. aural history
  • 6. possibilites of presentation of sound world, radioart
  • 7. sound art
Literature
    recommended literature
  • The Sonic Witness: On the Political Potential of Field Recordings in Acoustic Art. Fiebig, G.. Leonardo Music Journal : LMJ : journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology Volume: 25 (2015) ISSN: 0961-1215 Online ISSN: 1531-4
  • Urban Soundscapes as Narrative: Intentions and Interpretations of Field Recordings. DOI: 10.1080/19376529.2015.1083362 Matthew Ronnie Seaward, p. 299-303
  • STERNE, Jonathan. The Sound Studies Reader, Routledge, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0415771313
  • VANĚK, Miroslav and Pavel MÜCKE. Třetí strana trojúhelníku : teorie a praxe orální historie. 2., přepracované a doplně. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015, 326 stran. ISBN 9788087398623. info
  • MOTAL, Jan and Andrea HANÁČKOVÁ. Aktuální stav radio studies (Radio studies in Czech Republic). In Radio a TV studies v Čechách a na Slovensku: Flow Conference 01, Filozofická fakulta UP, Olomouc. 2014. info
  • Zvukem do hlavy : sondy do současné audiokultury. Edited by Michal Rataj. 1. vydání. Praha: Český rozhlas, 2012, 175 stran. ISBN 9788073312299. info
  • ŘIHÁČEK, Tomáš. Zvukové prostředí města a jeho vliv na prožívání (Urban sonic environment and its influence on experiencing). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2009, 240 pp. EDIS, svazek 3. ISBN 978-80-210-4809-6. info
  • HANÁČKOVÁ, Andrea. Český rozhlasový dokument a feature v letech 1990 - 2005: Poetika žánrů. Disertační práce. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého Olomouc, 2008. info
  • VLACHÝ, Václav. Praxe zvukové techniky. 3., aktualiz. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Muzikus, 2008, 297 s. ISBN 9788086253466. URL info
  • RATAJ, Michal. Elektroakustická hudba a vybrané koncepty radioartu : problematika vymezování tvůrčích pozic v prostředí akustických umění z pohledu domácí scény radioartu. 1. vydání. V Praze: Kant - Karel Kerlický pro AMU, 2007, 160 stran. ISBN 9788086970318. info
  • LICHT, Alan. Sound art : beyond music, between categories. Edited by Jim O´Rourke. 1st pub. New York: Rizzoli, 2007, 303 s. ISBN 9780847829699. info
  • STERNE, Jonathan. The audible past : cultural origins of sound reproduction. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003, xvi, 450. ISBN 9780822330134. info
  • THOMPSON, Emily Ann. The soundscape of modernity : architectural acoustics and the culture of listening in America, 1900-1933. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002, ix, 500. ISBN 0262201380. info
  • GUATTARI, Félix. The three ecologies. 1st pub. London: Athlone press, 2000, xv, 174 s. ISBN 0-485-00408-9. info
  • SCHAFER, R. Murray. The soundscape : our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. Rochester: Destiny Books, 1994, xii, 301. ISBN 0892814551. info
    not specified
  • Urban Soundscapes as Narrative: Intentions and Interpretations of Field Recordings. DOI: 10.1080/19376529.2015.1083362 Matthew Ronnie Seaward, p. 299-303
Teaching methods
Subject is oriented on audioculture and simultaneously is under way on in more dimensions of reflection the topic of sound in our culture and in practical applications.
#1 lectures: theory, concepts, contexts regarding audioculture: sound studies, aural history, oral history, sound art, field recordings/phonography, acoustic ecology, media ecology, media ecology art, radioart and more
#2 seminar: soundwalk, field recording, sound interventions, sound design
#3 seminar: presentation of outputs from #2 and discussion about topics from #1 at own radio programme at student's Radio R at FSS MU
#4 lectures: presentations of guests from the field
Assessment methods
There is 50% obligatory attendance at lectures and seminars and very recommended active approach to actions in the field and practical outputs (it could be field recording, soundwalks, sound interventions, sound design). Broadcasting of one show regarding one of discussed topics (in cooperation with colleagues and teacher) at student's Radio R at FSS MU is obligatory.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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