FNA2034 · Sound in the space of art

Overview

This unit investigates the possibilities of sound and listening in relationship to practices of contemporary art. Diverse approaches and ideas will be explored through both critical and practical encounters with the history of sound art, performance, and the sonic imagination. Particular attention will be paid to composing, improvising, listening, scoring, recording and amplifying, with an open ear for the poetics and politics of sound in relation to audiences and spaces. This unit engages with a range of material, conceptual and technical strategies enabling you to think in experimental and new ways about sound in the space of art.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

The Handbook lists an examination for this unit.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Develop experimental studio processes that generate sonic research in a contemporary art studio;
2. Apply creative skills and strategies appropriate to the concepts you are investigating;
3. Critically reflect on the place of sound art in the field of contemporary art, nationally and internationally;
4. Position and articulate the theoretical and historical context of your work;
5. Communicate the implications of sound and critical listening within contemporary cultural production.

Workload

12 hours per week including 4 contact hours plus 8 hours of independent study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.