Ethics and aesthetics of sound art

Màster en Art Sonor > Subjects > Postgraduate in Sound Creation: Materials and tools > Ethics and aesthetics of sound art

Syllabus

  • Sound art: definition problems. Assessments of the joint between art and sound
  • In the origins of sound art.
    • The relationship between music and visual arts. Drift from romantic sensitivity.
    • The fascination of the machine: futurism.
    • To another notion of art: Dadaism.
  • Development of sound art.
    • Sound as an object. Pierre Schaeffer’s definition.
    • Sound as a center: John Cage’s example.
    • The sound installation: a new relationship between listening and looking?

Evaluation criteria

1. Work: The theme of the written work should correspond to the given topics. The written work has to be presented in accordance with international academic standards. Percentage: 60%

2. Comments and/or reviews of texts and/or audiovisual material. Percentage: 40%

Bibliography

BLOCK, R., “Música fluxus: el acontecimiento cotidiano”. Olobo, nº 1, Cuenca, 2000.

CAGE, J., Escritos al oído. Traducción y edición de Carmen Pardo. Murcia: Colegio de Aparejadores y Arquitectos técnicos, Colección de Arquilectura, 1999.

CHION, M., El arte de los sonidos fijados. Cuenca: Centro de Creación Experimental, 2001.

DOUGLAS, K., Noise Water Meat. A history of sound in the arts. The MIT Press, 1999.

FONTANA, B., Sound Sculpture. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1970.

GÓMEZ DE LA SERNA, R., Ismos. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 1931 (Buenos Aires: Poseidón, 1943; Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2002).

GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA, A., F. CALVO SERALLER i S. MARCHAN FIZ, Escritos de arte de vanguardia 1900-1945. Madrid: Turner-Fundación Orbegozo, 1979.

PARDO, C., “De la música concreta, el arte acusmático y la pluridisciplinariedad del arte contemporáneo”.Doce Notas, nº 1, Madrid, 1997.

—, “La sensibilidad de la máquina: el circuito sonoro”. Acto, nº 1, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2002.
(http://webpages.ull.es/users/reacto/pg/n1/3.htm)

RUSSOLO, L., El arte de los ruidos. Cuenca: Centro de Creación Experimental, 1998.

SATIE, E., Memorias de un amnésico y otros escritos. Madrid: Fugaz, 1989 (Madrid: Ardora, 1994).

SCHAFER, R. M., The soundscape: our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. Rochester: Destiny Books, 1993.

SCHAEFFER, P. Tratado de los objetos sonoros. Madrid: Alianza Música, 1988.

Syllabus

The Master's Degree is structured in two postgraduate courses and a Final Master's Project. Visit the curriculum of the Master's Degree in Sound Art here. More information

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Starts: 11/02/2025
Ends: 05/06/2025

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