Fall 2025 Anthropology GU4378 section 001

Strange Resonances, Close Listening

Strange Resonances, Close

Call Number 10059
Day & Time
Location
T 2:10pm-4:00pm
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor John Pemberton
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

How does one live with sound and move within worlds of sound? In pursuit of this question the course explores: soundscapes and sound arts; echoes of audible pasts and resonances of auditory cultures; sound and the uncanny; repetitive listening in the age of electronic reproduction, ethereal transmissions, and audio-vision; sounds at the edges of listening with experimental music and sonic installations.  Sound, chambers, noise, feedback, voice, resonance, silence: from the sirens of the Odyssey, to compositional figures ala John Cage, to contemporary everyday acoustical encounters, if one were to really listen, closely, how might one write about sound?  How might one rethink the ties between sound and image?  How then might one think with sound, and through sound?

Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology
Enrollment 0 students (12 max) as of 9:06PM Friday, April 4, 2025
Subject Anthropology
Number GU4378
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Open To Barnard College, Columbia College, Engineering:Graduate, GSAS, General Studies
Note Instructors permission required. Open to Grad & Undergrad st
Section key 20253ANTH4378W001