Class Journal

March 30th, preliminary assignment: background reading
[Luigi Russolo, E.T. Marinetti, Pino Mansata]

April 6th, Assignment 1: researching source material
[Ron Kuivila, Edgard Varèse Alvin Curran, Stephen Vitello, David Tudor, John Cage, Janet Cardiff, Alvin Lucier]

May 4th, Assignment: final project research

On-Line Reading

ARTISTS

Luigi Russolo

L'arte dei rumo

E. T. Marinetti and Pino Mansata,

La Radia

La Battaglia di Adrianopoli - mp3 format

various audio excerpts - mp3 format

David Tudor

Rainforest

Edgard Varèse

The Liberation of Sound

Poeme Electronique - photos

Poeme Electronique - text

Alvin Curran - American audio artists living in Rome

catalog of sound installations

Alvin Lucier

interview documentary

John Cage

The Future of Music: Credo

Composition as Process. Part II: Indeterminacy

Ron Kuivila

list of works and biography

photos of installations

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller - Premio speciale “La Biennale di Venezia” 2001

Forest Walk

Her Long Black Hair

audio documentary on the Walks - MP3 format

interview in Bomb magazine

a Survey of Works at MOMA:PS1

Tate Gallery, Forty-Part Motet

Stephen Vitello

catalog of installations

EXHIBITIONS

Sculpture Center: Treble, 2004

Sculpture Center site

Art Forum review

Rock's Role (After Ryoanji), 2004

Art in General site

New York Times review

Suoni in Alta Quota - Le Olimpiadi della Cultura Torino, 2006

official site

Meet the Composer article on the work of Phil Cline

Link to America Public Radio radio feature Stephen Vitello's installation for the Cultural Olympics in Torino.

HISTORY

Richard Zvonar

A History of Spatial Music

Additional reading in PDF format

Walter Murch Interview #1, [click here]

Walter Murch Interview #2, [click here]

Morton Feldman essays, [click here]

Golden Section illustrations, [click here]

Toru Takamitsu on Japanese Aesthetics, [click here]

A History of Spatial Music