ROUNDTABLE

PART I - Project Work
Karl Salzmann on Sound

Books:

JOHN CAGE – Silence

JACQUES ATTALI – Noise, the political economy of music

LUIGI RUSSOLO – Die Kunst der Geraeusche

STEVE GOODMAN – The musician Code 9

BRANDON LABELLE – Acoustic Territories

DIETER DANIELS/INKE ARNS – 4’33’’

Video:  PUBLIC ENEMY- Fight the power

Sampling and appropriation of sound, acoustic territories

What kind of power can be inherent in a sound?

Video: Christian Falsnaes
Bullying, presence, volume, occupying space, conceptual, ritual, interacting, body, subversion, territories, physical, aggressive soundscape, fear, violence, context, no surprise

Excerpt form ATTALI:  The sounds of power, noise and politics

Video: MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIK, bug at the opera

Pictures: LUIGI RUSSOLO’s experimental instruments

Pictures: Sonic Warfare - High frequency sound weapons, death whistle, torture classics

Video: BRANDON LABELLE – Vibration

Presentations for next week:

Daniela on Underground: busking acoustics and the echo

Chris* on Attali’s excerpt*

Everyone bring 5min of a sound related to the field they’re coming from

PART II - TransdisciplinarityBernd Kraefter on Care

Julian’s presentation on IVAN ILLICH’s Tools for Conviviality
Video: FRIGIDAIRE – army production during the 1940s