We'll begin our work for the quarter with a three short essays that will offer a few general perspectives on modes of listening, the sounds that surround us and the special types of listening that are endemic to the study of poetry.
- Michel Chion, "The Three Listening Modes"
- R. Murray Schafer, "The Soundscape"
- Charles Bernstein, "Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word"
All three of these pieces are excerpts from larger works, and are fairly complexly interwoven with all sorts of contextual allusions that might not be familiar to you — try to ignore that and focus on distilling a few salient points from each essay. Our class discussion will help to fill in the gaps.
Additionally, I'd like everyone to take part in a collaborative audio experiment that will serve as one focus of discussion for Thursday's class. For this, you'll need to either download the SoundCloud app for your phone or use the SoundCloud site to record a short snippet of sound and upload it to our class group:
- You'll record a ten second audio clip at a time that corresponds to your birthday (mine is May 17th, so that'll be 5:17 — choose AM or PM by whatever's most convenient for you). Record whatever's around you wherever you are at that time.
- Follow the necessary steps to upload the track to SoundCloud and give it a title that includes your name and the words "Sound Snippet Experiment."
- Once you've joined our class SoundCloud group, you'll want to add your sound to the group, using the "Add to Group" button under the waveform display.
Please make sure that you've recorded and uploaded your ten second clip by the end of the day Wednesday.
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