TIM_M_002 From Electronic Music to Live Coding Performance II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Martin Flašar, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Martin Flašar, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 8:00–9:40 N51
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 150 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 8/150, only registered: 0/150, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/150
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course should contribute to a broader understanding the development of electroacoustic music in the world as well as in the home conditions. Students will be acquainted with basic aesthetic and technical problems of EM.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to identify, classify and interpret various forms of technologically produced music in the 2nd half of the 20th century with overlapping to the present times.
Syllabus
  • - Music and new media - a marriage of convenience?
  • - Technological conditionality of music - music of machines and instruments.
  • - Digitality of music and music encoding (from Neum to MP3, the possibility of visual representation).
  • - Modularity of music (music as a kit, the impact of mobile technology).
  • - Music as a hypertext (redefining the author concept - performer - audience).
  • - Music interactivity - interface changes (J. Cage, G. Levin, D. Long, T. Dvorak, etc.).
  • - Multimediality (music in the context of other media),
  • - Space music - music in space / space in music.
  • - Aesthetics of Music in New Media (functional × absolute, authentic × eclectic, high x low).
  • - Artwork in the age of its digital reproducibility.
  • - Music mobility - metamorphosis of the memory.
  • - Materialization of sound - music as a physical object.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • HEIDEGGER, Martin. Věda, technika a zamyšlení. Translated by Jiří Michálek - Jana Kružíková - Ivan Chvatík. Vyd. 1. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2004, 62 s. ISBN 8072980831. info
  • FLAŠAR, Martin. Člověk – hudba – technika: K otázce vlivu technologií na hudební myšlení 20. a počátku 21. století (Man – music – technology: The question of the influence of technology on the musical thinking of the 20th and early 21st century). 2019. Habilitační práce info
  • ORTEGA Y GASSET, José. Úvaha o technice a jiné eseje o vědě a filosofii. Translated by Michal Špína. Vyd. 1. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2011, 127 s. ISBN 9788072984558. info
  • HOLMES, Thom. Electronic and experimental music : technology, music, and culture. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2008. xviii, 462. ISBN 9780415957823.
  • Sound unbound : sampling digital music and culture. Edited by DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. xi, 426. ISBN 9780262633635.
  • MANOVICH, Lev. The language of new media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000. xxxix, 354. ISBN 0262133741.
  • FLAŠAR, Martin, Daniel MATEJ a Michal RATAJ. Electronic music today: Where are we going and what are we doing? 1. vyd. Brno: Janáčkova akademie múzických umění v Brně, 2014. 126 s. ISBN 978-80-7460-071-5.
    not specified
  • ORTEGA Y GASSET, José. The dehumanization of art, and other essays on art, culture, and literature. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1968. info
  • BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Úvahy o postmoderní době. Translated by Miloslav Petrusek. Vyd. 2. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2002, 165 s. ISBN 8086429113. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Attendance 75%. Scholarly essay 7-10 s.p. (argumentation, references, bibliography inlcuded).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2023, recent)
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