MUS 421/630 Advanced Comp

Required Composing/Listening/Reading

Fall 2009

Prof. Hosken

(listening/reading journal forms can be downloaded from the assignments page on WebCT. Listening examples are available through electronic reserves—search for "Hosken." You'll have to enter your CSUN ID and password plus the course password I gave you)

For final exam day

• Final Project piece
  • approximately 3 minutes in length
  • may use any technique we discussed in class or other techniques as long as discussed with me.

For 11/18:

• Bring your completed text piece
• Listen to the following pieces and prepare to discuss (are these pieces?)
• Come Out by Steve Reich (process piece)—available on Course Reserves
• Ten4 (google "plunderphonics" to find info; compare that piece to this)
• Tune (plunderphonics)
• Spring (plunderphonics)
• Read the following articles in Audio Culture and prepare a short (1 page) summary for each
• Bettered By the Borrower by John Oswald
• Plunderphonia by Chris Cutler

Links to recordings we made on 10/21:

• Aram1
• Aram2
• Brandon
• Bryan
• Collin
• Leo
• Marcelo1
• Marcelo2
• Robert

For 10/21:

• Bring your text in to record. Can be poetry or prose, but probably not too long. You can be interested in the meaning, the utterances, or both. If you're totally at a loss, try this dada poetry generator.
• Listen to:
• Dodge-->Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental-->Speech Songs-->He Destroyed Her Image
• Harvey-->Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco
• Lillios-->Arturo

Links to recordings we made on 9/23:

• Bryan
• Collin
• Dave Dominique
• David Gordon
• Leo
• Marcelo
• Robert

For 9/23

• Composition: By 9/23—Bring in your items to record or record them at home
• Reading: By 9/23—Pauline Oliveros: Some Sound Observations (download form "Oliveros-Observations" from WebCT and fill out)
• Listening: By 9/23 or so (Required) (download form "Nelson-Scatter" from WebCT and fill out)
• Jon Christopher Nelson: Scatter
• Listening: For 9/23 (Optional, but useful)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen: (from Elektronische Musik) Étude [Mosaic—guess what the sound source is!]
• Beatles: Revolution No. 9 (from White Album) [Collage]

For 9/12

• Listening: For 9/12 (Required)—download form from WebCT and fill out:
• Scott A. Wyatt: On a Roll
• Composition: Choose several items to record that will be the basis for your first piece (collage or mosaic)
• Don't bring the items this time—just think them through
• Probably no more than 5 or 6
• Consider unity vs. variety of: timbre, pitch, articulation
• Be prepared to discuss you choices
• Listening: For 9/12 (Optional, but useful):
  • Pierre Schaeffer: (from L'Oeuvre Musicale) Étude pathetique [Collage]
  • Pierre Schaeffer: (from L'Oeuvre Musicale) Étude aux allures [Mosaic]
  • Pierre Schaeffer: (from L'Oeuvre Musicale) Étude aux chemins de fer [Collage]

For 9/2

• Listening: By 9/2 —Edgard Varèse: Poème életronique (fill out form—available as Assignment 1 in WebCT)
• Reading: By 9/2—Luigi Russolo: The Art of Noises Futurist Manifesto (fill out form—available as Assignment 1 in WebCT)
• Reading: By 9/2—Edgard Varèse: The Liberation of Sound (fill out form—available as Assignment 1 in WebCT)
• Reading: By 9/2—John Cage: The Future of Music: Credo (fill out form—available as Assignment 1 in WebCT)

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