Sound & Space

2017
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Prof. Raviv Ganchrow
raviv.ganchrow@gmail.com
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13/Sep
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(You must attend at least 70% of the classes + hand in a 2-3000 word essay researching one of the SoundSpace themes
to achieve a passing grade)
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1. To think sound in terms of size (343 m/s / 20.000 Hz = 1,71 cm)
2. The idea that Space is essentially (and importantly) socially constructed and
3. All sound, even from a single source, is inherently extensive. Sound is always somewhere.
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Selected Reading:
J. F. Augoyard, H. Torgue, Sonic Experience: A Guide To Everyday Sounds (McGill-Queens University Press, 2005)
G. Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (Presses Universitaires de France, 1958)
H. Bergson, Matter and Memory (Dover Publications, 1912)
B. Blesser & L. R. Salter, Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?: Experiencing Aural Architecture (The MIT Press, 2006)
R. Cavell, McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography (University of Toronto Press, 2003).
M. Forsyth, Buildings for Music: The Architect, the Musician, and the Listener from the Seventeenth Century to the
Present Day (The MIT Press, 1985)
D. Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (The MIT Press, 2001).
D. Kahn, Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts, (University of California, 2013)
H. Lefebvre, The Production of Space, (Blackwell Publishing, 1991)
J. Sterne, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke University Press, 2003).
H. Schwartz, Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond (Zone Books, 2011)
J. L. Nancy, Listening (Fordham University Press; annotated edition edition, 2007)
E. Thompson, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America,
1900-1933 (The MIT Press, 2004)
T. Morton, Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics, (Harvard University Press, 2009)
S. Trower, Senses of Vibration: A History of the Pleasure and Pain of Sound, (Continuum, 2012)
R. Ganchrow, J. Kursell, P. Avidar ed, Immersed Sound and Architecture, Oase jornal no. 78, (NAi publishers,
Rotterdam, NL, 2009)
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Download Issue from Here: http://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/78
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20/Sep
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Approaches to Space
4/Oct
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Glenn Goulds Acoustic Orchestrations
Telephone - 1876, Alexander Bell (141 years ago!!)
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Kurt Weill
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Marshall McLuhan Great minds of our time
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Marshall McLuhan Acoustic Space

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