160049 VO Sound & Music in Digital Media (2016S)
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Language: English
Examination dates
- Monday 20.06.2016 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 03.10.2016 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 05.12.2016 17:45 - 19:15 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 16.01.2017 17:45 - 19:15 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Monday 07.03. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 14.03. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 04.04. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 11.04. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 18.04. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 25.04. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 02.05. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 09.05. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 23.05. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 30.05. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 06.06. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 13.06. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
- Monday 27.06. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal 1 Musikwissenschaft UniCampus Hof 9, 3G-EG-09
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Contemporary networked digital technology has given rise to host of new relationships between sound and image, new audio and audiovisual genres that exploit them, and new ways of producing, circulating and consuming this content. This course aims to introduce students to some of the exciting and innovative interdisciplinary approaches and modes of analysis that scholars and practitioners have been directing towards these emerging musical and audiovisual practices.Through a weekly reading, which will be elaborated in the lecture, the course will cover a selection of aesthetic, technological, socioeconomic, ethnographic, and empirical approaches to music in contemporary digital and multimedia contexts. We will strike a balance between a discussion of concrete issues illustrated with particular examples, on the one hand, and broader theoretical and practical contexts for the cases, on the other.
Assessment and permitted materials
The course will be assessed by a two-part, 90 minute examination comprising:
1. 50% short questions designed to test students’ recall and understanding of the basic ideas covered, and
2. 50% extended essay in which students will demonstrate deeper critical engagement with one topic of their choice.
1. 50% short questions designed to test students’ recall and understanding of the basic ideas covered, and
2. 50% extended essay in which students will demonstrate deeper critical engagement with one topic of their choice.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
By the end of the course, students will:
- understand the multiple ways in which sound and music are used across a range of digital media,
- understand the relationship between new media and technological, psychological, social, political and economic realities,
- have at their disposal a number of theoretical tools that allow for more precise description and discussion of digital sound and its relationship to its cultural context,
- appreciate the contours of the academic and wider debates surrounding new media, particularly as they relate to music and sound, and
- be able to reflect critically on these issues.
- understand the multiple ways in which sound and music are used across a range of digital media,
- understand the relationship between new media and technological, psychological, social, political and economic realities,
- have at their disposal a number of theoretical tools that allow for more precise description and discussion of digital sound and its relationship to its cultural context,
- appreciate the contours of the academic and wider debates surrounding new media, particularly as they relate to music and sound, and
- be able to reflect critically on these issues.
Examination topics
The topics of the lectures and examination will include:
1. Interactions between popular music and multimedia in live performance,
2. Sound and music on websites,
3. Electronic music, electroacoustic/acousmatic music, sound art,
4. Evolution of old media like serial television, immersive video games, and postclassical cinema,
5. Digital animation,
6. Music videos,
7. Technologies of production and reproduction,
8. Haptic, interactive, and immersive modalities,
9. The role of music and digital technologies in shaping the lives of young people, and
10. How consumers appropriate the technology for their own purposes.
1. Interactions between popular music and multimedia in live performance,
2. Sound and music on websites,
3. Electronic music, electroacoustic/acousmatic music, sound art,
4. Evolution of old media like serial television, immersive video games, and postclassical cinema,
5. Digital animation,
6. Music videos,
7. Technologies of production and reproduction,
8. Haptic, interactive, and immersive modalities,
9. The role of music and digital technologies in shaping the lives of young people, and
10. How consumers appropriate the technology for their own purposes.
Reading list
Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog & John Richardson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (Oxford: OUP, 2013).
John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, Carol Vernallis (eds), The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (Oxford: OUP, 2013).
(Copies of the relevant literature will be posted on Moodle each week, as well as links to useful websites, TV programmes, etc.)
John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, Carol Vernallis (eds), The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (Oxford: OUP, 2013).
(Copies of the relevant literature will be posted on Moodle each week, as well as links to useful websites, TV programmes, etc.)
Association in the course directory
B06, B14, B16, B19; M03, M04, M05, M11, M13, M16
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