Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• CMS.876 (Spring 2006) 
• Course Title:
• History of Media and Technology: Sound, the Minority Report -- Radical Music of the Past 100 Years 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Comparative Media Studies 
• Course Introduction:
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  CMS.876 History of Media and Technology: Sound, the Minority Report -- Radical Music of the Past 100 Years
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2006

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features an extensive list of audio and video selections in the media selections section.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course looks at the history of avant-garde and electronic music from the early twentieth century to the present. The class is organized as a theory and production seminar for which students may either produce audio/multimedia projects or a research paper. It engages music scholarship, cultural criticism, studio production, and multi-media development, such as recent software, sound design for film and games, and sound installation. Sound as a media tool for communication and sound as a form of artistic expression are subjects under discussion. The artists' work reviewed in the course includes selections from audio innovators such as the Italian Futurists, Edgard Varèse, John Cage, King Tubby, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Afrika Bambaataa, Kraftwerk, Merzbow, Aphex Twin, Rza, Björk, and others.