Sound studies

2024/2025

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Институт медиа

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 3 модуль

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course structure emphasises the interdisciplinary nature of the study of sound by integrating concepts from media studies and sound art. The aim is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of sound as a cultural, social and artistic phenomenon, while encouraging them to explore the practical applications of sound in contemporary contexts.

Learning Objectives

• get an understanding of the possibilities sound studies offers for research within and across disciplines
• achieving a high level of proficiency in the special language and get knowledge of modern problems of auditory research
• learn how to do field recordings
• experiment with applying theoretical and analytical insights in work across different sonic mediums

Expected Learning Outcomes

• get knowledge of key points in the history of the formation of sound research
• account for and discuss representations of sound in different contexts and situations
• provide a specialized account of theories and methods in sound studies research
• provide a specialized account and analysis of social, historical, philosophical and aesthetic
• dimensions of different auditory phenomena
• reflect on practical sound production and critically discuss the significance of sound for the cultural understanding, social context and well-being of human beings
• using appropriate concepts, participate in scholarly dialogue and debate on auditory culture
• apply appropriate methods and theories to carry out their own studies in the sound studies field
• relate contemporary local phenomena to historical, global, social or political issues
• get possession of basic skills of ethnographic musical analysis, be able to make musical and sociological generalizations
• communicate about sound studies to others using correct language both orally and in writing, as well as through an auditory production

Course Contents

• Introduction. What is Sound Studies?
• Histories of sound studies, habits of sound scholars and others, the place of sound in the humanities and social sciences.
• Perception of sound and ways of working with sound. Constructs of Listening.
• Problematizing Sound Technologies and Sound Cultures. Formations of Sound Media. Logics of Sound Media
• Sound and art.

Assessment Elements

• Project
• Exam
• Seminar activity

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 3rd module
  0.4 * Exam + 0.4 * Project + 0.2 * Seminar activity

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• 9780822384250 - Jonathan Sterne - The Audible Past : Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction - 2003 - Duke University Press - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=600264 - nlebk - 600264

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• 9781501305474 - Schulze, Holger - The Sonic Persona : An Anthropology of Sound - 2018 - Bloomsbury Academic - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1703881 - nlebk - 1703881

Authors

• PEREIASLOV ALEKSEI DENISOVICH