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080012 VO+UE B330 Special Methods: Sound Studies: Theories, Methods and Practices (2019S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 50 participants
Language: German, English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 06.03. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 13.03. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 20.03. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 27.03. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 03.04. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 10.04. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 08.05. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 08.05. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 29.05. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 29.05. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 05.06. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 12.06. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 26.06. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 26.06. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

What are the different methods to perceive and describe our sonic environment? What do the everyday sounds tell us about where we live? The aim of this course is to learn the key concepts of sound studies to grasp the everyday life as a sonic dimension. The methods and theories of sound studies will be studied especially in regard to european ethnology, social, cultural and sensory anthropology. The practical side of the course will cover the exercises of listening, describing, writing, recording and editing the sound. There will be excursions of Sound Walks and the city will be approached as a field of research. Correspondingly, the soundscapes of Vienna will be considered as social and cultural evidences. In each class, a pre-read text will be discussed together and little exercises from the students will be shared among with the practical examples of sound studies. The main objective is to gain an active listening and to elaborate a sonic perception which is aware to the different sound cultures and their reflections in the daily realm in order to interpret our sonic environments ethnologically.
No practical preknowledge is required.

Assessment and permitted materials

Die Lehrveranstaltung ist prüfungsimmanent. Anwesenheitspflicht (2x Fehlen erlaubt)

Die Punkte für die PL werden wie folgt vergeben:
* 20 Punkte/points for/für aktive Mitarbeit/active participation
* 30 Punkte/points for/für Übungen/Exercises
* 50 Punkte/points for/für eigenes Soundprojekt (Soundwerk + Begleittext)/Own sound project (Soundwork + short paper)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The participants shall get an opportunity to deepen their methodological knowledge and to practice experimental and innovative empirical procedure.

Examination topics

Reading list

Augoyard Jean-François, Torgue Henry, Sonic Experience: A guide to everyday sounds, translated by McCartney Andrea and Paquette David, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005

Chion Michel, Audition and Ergo-Audition:Then and Now, edited by Daniels Dieter, Naumann Sandra, See This Sound, Audiovisuology: A Reader, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, 2015

LaBelle Brandon, Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010

Oehme-Jüngling Karoline, “Auditive Feldforschung,” Methoden der Kulturanthropologie, herausgegeben von Christine Bischoff, Karoline Oehme-Jüngling, Walter Leimgruber, 351-366. Haupt Bern, 2014

Schafer R. Murray, The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World, Rochester, Vt. : Destiny Books, 1994

Voegelin Salomé, Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010

Association in the course directory

EC 130 Grundlagen Europäischer Ethnologie

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