space, environment & context - long distance music

In drawing inspiration from works by composers of experimental music such as Alvin Lucier's Music on a Long Thin Wire, Maryanne Amacher's City-Links, David Tudor's Rainforest, and Christina Kubisch's electrical walks we explore the resonances of objects, rooms, wires and the building to create a slowly growing sonic playground of resonating bodies. What does it take to turn a playgound into an instrument? Are sonic memories relevant in this context? Course materials will include text and video. Course activities will include wiring up objects with transducers, creating sounds to play them and listening to the U7 as it makes the building shake and resonate.