Universität Wien

080071 VU B330 Specialised Methodology: Sounds of Technology: Listening to Everyday Companions (2022S)

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

Etwaige Änderungen der Durchführungsform werden je nach Lage der Corona-Situation rechtzeitig bekannt gegeben.

  • Wednesday 02.03. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 23.03. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 23.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 06.04. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 06.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 04.05. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 04.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 18.05. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 18.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 01.06. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 01.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 15.06. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 15.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 29.06. 14:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse
  • Wednesday 29.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 (2.Stock, rechts) EE Hanuschgasse

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

What is the most dominant sound you hear at this moment? Is it a natural, human, social, mechanical, or indicator sound, as R. M. Schafer (1994) classifies sounds in general? This class aims to take sound as an empirical starting point to analyse everyday life with its cultural complexities. We will discuss what sounds, if we listen carefully, can tell us about gendered, racialised, economic and environmental issues. Students are expected to develop an acoustic perception of everyday mechanical and/or electronic sounds, catalogue and analyse them, discover and reimagine their design while expanding the meanings of technology. They will learn the basics of sound(scape) studies and the auditory methods and approaches of European ethnology, cultural anthropology, anthropology of the senses and sensory ethnography. They will learn to record and edit sounds with digital technologies. The city as a field of sound research will be explored via a soundwalk as a class excursion. Finally, they are expected to present the given texts and bring sound works and sound examples to the class.
We will visit a session of “studio audio-visual research” where we learn about the works of the guests - researchers, filmmakers and artists- and discuss their work. https://studio-avr.univie.ac.at
Students can use the institute's sound recording and editing equipment.
No practical knowledge is required.

Assessment and permitted materials

Active participation is crucial for the seminar. Students need to read the given texts, prepare reading notes and questions, make presentations and creatively apply the learned methods and concepts. At the end of the seminar, they will compose a sound work accompanied by a text that critically and reflectively explains the project through notions and perspectives discussed in the class.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Die Lehrveranstaltung ist prüfungsimmanent (2x Fehlen erlaubt)
Für den erfolgreichen Abschluss der Lehrveranstaltung sind mindestens 50 von 100 möglichen Punkten zu erreichen. Notenskala:>= 87,5 sehr gut (1)>= 75 gut (2)>= 62,5 befriedigend (3)>= 50 genügend (4)< 50 nicht genügend (5)

Examination topics

Reading list

Arantes, Lydia Maria/Rieger Elisa (2014). Ethnographien der sinne : Wahrnehmung und methode in empirisch-kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungen. Transcript.
Bijsterveld, Karin (2008). Mechanical sound : Technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century. MIT Press.
Bischoff, Christine/Oehme-Jüngling, Karoline (2014). Methoden der Kulturanthropologie. Haupt Bern.
LaBelle, Brandon (2010). Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Sterne, Jonathan (2012). The Sound Studies Reader. Routledge.
Schafer R., Murray (1994). The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Destiny Books.
Symanczyk, Anna (2021). Der perfekte Klang der Dinge : Produkt-Sound-Design im emotionalen Kapitalismus. Panama Verlag.

Association in the course directory

EC Methoden kulturwissenschaftlicher Alltagsforschung

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