Class Sound Culture

This UC is central in the area of ¿¿Sound Studies, intending to create in the students an understanding of the influences of sound in the constitution of a point of view on the world; To problematize the contemporary arts; Understand the relationships between the arts of sound, space and technique; Critical position on the contemporary arts from the sense of hearing; Understand the mediations exercised by sound technical reproduction; Understand the qualities of sound in the artistic object constitution and the immersion of the human in the soundscape; the new frontiers of the art of sound from the digital.

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Brief history of sound studies The sense of hearing Qualities Qualitative distinction with the sense of sight The representations of hearing and vision Sound and technique The relationship between noise and technique The invention of sound mediation apparatus The immersion of the subject Natural shorthand And the sound And deviation with playback devices Sound and the arts Literatures of the 19th century The vanguards of the twentieth century Reproduction techniques Recording and playing the sound The diffusion of the arts The diffusion apparatus The microphone and the speaker; Its influence on the alteration of artistic objects. The sound as a product. Changes in artistic reception and production. The change in the production and diffusion of the art. Noise, music and society. The space of sound objects. The body as medium and instrument. Noise as a productive concept.

Student attendance is important, so only students with at least 70% attendance can have continuous assessment. Continuous assessment is carried out in two moments, with different weightings. A frequency (60%) and a soundscape report (40%).

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