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Sound & Space: Exploring Acoustic Dimensions

1. This document outlines the syllabus for a course titled "Sound & Space" taught by Prof. Raviv Ganchrow. 2. Students must attend at least 70% of classes and submit a 2,000-3,000 word essay on one of the course themes to pass. 3. Selected readings cover topics like the social construction of space, the extensive nature of sound, and the relationship between sound, architecture, and culture.

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Sound & Space: Exploring Acoustic Dimensions

1. This document outlines the syllabus for a course titled "Sound & Space" taught by Prof. Raviv Ganchrow. 2. Students must attend at least 70% of classes and submit a 2,000-3,000 word essay on one of the course themes to pass. 3. Selected readings cover topics like the social construction of space, the extensive nature of sound, and the relationship between sound, architecture, and culture.

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Sound & Space

2017
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Prof. Raviv Ganchrow
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13/Sep
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(You must attend at least 70% of the classes + hand in a 2-3000 word essay researching one of the SoundSpace themes
to achieve a passing grade)
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1. To think sound in terms of size (343 m/s / 20.000 Hz = 1,71 cm)
2. The idea that Space is essentially (and importantly) socially constructed and
3. All sound, even from a single source, is inherently extensive. Sound is always somewhere.
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Selected Reading:
J. F. Augoyard, H. Torgue, Sonic Experience: A Guide To Everyday Sounds (McGill-Queens University Press, 2005)
G. Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (Presses Universitaires de France, 1958)
H. Bergson, Matter and Memory (Dover Publications, 1912)
B. Blesser & L. R. Salter, Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?: Experiencing Aural Architecture (The MIT Press, 2006)
R. Cavell, McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography (University of Toronto Press, 2003).
M. Forsyth, Buildings for Music: The Architect, the Musician, and the Listener from the Seventeenth Century to the
Present Day (The MIT Press, 1985)
D. Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (The MIT Press, 2001).
D. Kahn, Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts, (University of California, 2013)
H. Lefebvre, The Production of Space, (Blackwell Publishing, 1991)
J. Sterne, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke University Press, 2003).
H. Schwartz, Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond (Zone Books, 2011)
J. L. Nancy, Listening (Fordham University Press; annotated edition edition, 2007)
E. Thompson, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America,
1900-1933 (The MIT Press, 2004)
T. Morton, Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics, (Harvard University Press, 2009)
S. Trower, Senses of Vibration: A History of the Pleasure and Pain of Sound, (Continuum, 2012)
R. Ganchrow, J. Kursell, P. Avidar ed, Immersed Sound and Architecture, Oase jornal no. 78, (NAi publishers,
Rotterdam, NL, 2009)
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Download Issue from Here: [Link]
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20/Sep
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Approaches to Space
4/Oct
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Glenn Goulds Acoustic Orchestrations
Telephone - 1876, Alexander Bell (141 years ago!!)
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Kurt Weill
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Marshall McLuhan Great minds of our time
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SENDER MEDIUM>RECEIVER
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Marshall McLuhan Acoustic Space


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