ZD_23 Sound studies I (practice)

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Filip Johánek (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Filip Johánek
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 29. 9. 16:00–19:40 N21, Fri 13. 10. 16:00–19:40 N21, Fri 3. 11. 16:00–19:40 N21, Fri 1. 12. 16:00–19:40 N21
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of DAW (digital audio workstation). Interest in recording technology, sound in its wider possible usage, not only musical. There is no required knowledge and familiarity with practice of recording technique.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students will be introduced to basic technical equipment for capturing and recording sound. Students are supposed to work with DAW. In cooperation with lecturer, students will try to map various contexts of usage of sounds in musical and non-musical space. Minimum of 30 % of lessons will be used for discussions about particular sound based material and its individual/collective adjustments. Students will learn to identify and analyze context of the sound work and also wider context of its constitution and communication. There will be accent on practical sound application in the field (see outline) and on the work with recorded material in DAW. Discussions will also take place on the topic of particular sound applications, general field of sound activities and their place in audio- and audiovisual works and in general on their position in the society.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, a student will be able to:
have a broader insight into usage of sound in various contexts,
analyze used technological and sound-artistic means,
choose and use particular technological and sound-artistic means regarding to sound and cultural context
Syllabus
  • 1. introduction
  • 2. discussion: Sound Studies
  • 3. discussion + forum: studio work and field work, sound and its applications (phonography, sound interventions, commercial task, location sound, broadcast, sound design, sound system installation/concert etc.)
  • 4. case study: 1kHz
  • 5. forum: money vs. art vs. money+art - searching the sense of sound job, self-fulfillment
  • 6. field: intervention - sound encroachment into the field
  • 7. field: sound at sound system aplications of "popular" music
  • 8. forum: stereotypes of work with sound and their encroachment - "sound mushroom cloud" in TV and radio
  • 9. discussion + forum: "dirty" and "clean record" and rules of world of art in music and sound activities via free interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu's examples from various styles, genres, „scenes"
  • 10. practice: connecting of middle-sized sound systrem - input, aux, capture of sound, playback, record, analog, digital, optics, proccesing, wire/less
  • 11. practice: feedback as an art mean
  • 12. practice: wireless - work with wireless broadcast and its limits/artistic usage of signal with noise
  • 13. reflection of the course + listening to the sound material captured and edited during the course and its analysis
Literature
    recommended literature
  • STERNE, Jonathan. The Sound Studies Reader, Routledge, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0415771313
  • 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
  • FLAŠAR, Martin. Elektroakustická hudba (Electroacoustic Music). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015. Elportál. ISBN 978-80-210-7944-1. html url PURL epub info
  • VIERS, Ric. The location sound bible : how to record professional dialogue for film and TV. Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions, 2012, xv, 354. ISBN 9781615931200. info
  • Zvukem do hlavy : sondy do současné audiokultury. Edited by Michal Rataj. 1. vydání. Praha: Český rozhlas, 2012, 175 stran. ISBN 9788073312299. info
  • KYLOUŠEK, Petr and Petr DYTRT. Pierre BOURDIEU, Pravidla umění. Vznik a struktura literárního pole (Les Regles de l'Art. Genese et structure du champ littéraire) (Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field). Překladatelé. 1. vyd. Brno: Host, 2011, 496 pp. Teoretická knihovna, č. 27. ISBN 978-80-7294-364-7. URL info
  • ŘIHÁČEK, Tomáš. Zvukové prostředí města a jeho vliv na prožívání. 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Mezinárodní politologický ústav, 2009, 240 stran. ISBN 9788021048096. 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
Teaching methods
Theoretical preparation, discussion, practice.
Assessment methods
Requirements for fulfilling are 1. active participation on practical realizations 2. active participation on discussions 3. attendance on at least eight lessons 4. fulfilling one of any of three taks: A. any change of sound track in advertisement 10-60 seconds long B. any change of sound track from movie 10-60 seconds long C. shooting of short visual scene (it is possible to shoot with/out contact sound) and change/production of its sound track, 10-60 seconds long
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
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