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Songwriting II: Defining and Deepening Your “Brand”(REMOTE) — MCO4169.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
This is a course for advanced songwriter/composers, music makers who are ready to create bands, albums, shows, that transcend the single song into a larger listening experience. Knowing which songs/compositions represent your “voice” with resonance predictive of what you will write in the future, but combine, with integrity, strong material you’ve already written—is difficult
Music

Sonic Ethnography — MSR2213.01) (cancelled 10/6/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Senem Pirler Joseph Alpar
Credits: 4
Sonic ethnography is an emerging field that sits at the intersection of studies of sound and ethnographic methodologies. In this course, we will focus on investigating the “sonic” in relation to social and environmental structures. We will focus on how putting our attention to sound-making, recording, and listening practices can bring innovative contributions to the field of
Music Society Culture and Thought

Sonic, Mnemonic, Identity, and Memory — MSR2209.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: David Baron
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The best soundtracks create their own universe that is instantly identifiable. This course is a hands-on guide to creating sonic identity. We will explore soundtracks, sonic logos, environments, compositions, and other audio-visual media in an effort to distill what makes something stand apart with a strong identity. Why do we remember the NBC logo? Is it simply repetition or
Music

Sound Art — MCO4136.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Sergei Tcherepnin
Credits: 2
This class takes an interdisciplinary approach to sound, examining sound as a relatively new medium within contemporary art. We will look at how sound has entered the discourse of contemporary art practices since the mid-20th century through now, focusing on conceptual and performance art practices, and how they set the stage for sound art. Students will be asked to create new
Music Visual Arts

Sound Design for Moving Images — MSR4120.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: senempirler@bennington.edu
Credits: 2
This class is an introduction to the creative approaches and applications of sound design and audio production for moving images. In this course, we will explore the techniques used in the audio post-production for moving images and focus on the role of the sound designer. We will focus on designing sounds using Foley recordings, sound effects editing, and post-processing.
Visual Arts Music

Sound Design for Moving Images — MSR4120.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
This class is an introduction to the creative approaches and applications of sound design and audio production for moving images. In this course, we will explore the techniques used in the audio post-production for moving images and focus on the role of the sound designer. We will focus on designing sounds using Foley recordings, sound effects editing, and post-processing.
Visual Arts Music

Sound Design for Moving Images — MSR4120.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to the creative approaches and applications of sound design and audio production for moving images. In this course, we will explore the techniques used in audio post-production for moving images and focus on the role of the sound designer. We will focus on designing sounds using Foley, sound effects editing, and post-processing. Students will learn
Music Visual Arts

Sound Design for Moving Images — MSR4120.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
This class is an introduction to the creative approaches and applications of sound design and audio production for moving images. In this course, we will explore the techniques used in the audio post-production for moving images and focus on the role of the sound designer. We will focus on designing sounds using Foley, sound effects editing, and post-processing. Students will
Music

Sound Design for Theater, Dance, Performance — MSR2239.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Eli Crews
Credits: 2
This course will cover the creative process of designing sound for theatrical performance. We will explore various approaches to design for live theater and dance through close examination of scripts and movement scores, and develop compositional and/or sound-based material appropriate to the context. Hardware and software tools used to express sound designs will be
Dance Music

Sound in Site: Performance and Installation — MCO4702.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
This course is for students who want to create site-based performances and installations with an electronic or performative sound component. Throughout the semester, students will investigate relationships between sound and site, informed by their exploration of sonic materials, listening, site-visits and readings that address contemporary critical and conceptual issues related
Music Visual Arts

Sound Installation — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: TBA
Credits: 2
In this course we'll examine and create sound pieces that differ from traditional musical performances in that they are longer, larger, and/or (more directly) interactive. Topics will include: process music and algorithmic composition; mechanized and computerized sound making; strategies for remote power, processing, and amplification; and sensors. Students will critique
Music

Sound Manifestos —

Spring 2015
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
This course will examine the peculiar literary and musical interactions that happen when sound artists trumpet their innovations in short prose form. Starting with Russolo’s Futurist Manifesto, we will listen to the manifestos of sound-related movements, from Dada to Fluxus to minimalism, using a broad, multidisciplinary approach. Readings will include Marinetti, Cage, Satie,
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Sound Manifestos — MHI2106.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
This course will examine the peculiar literary and musical interactions that happen when sound artists trumpet their innovations in short prose form. Starting with Russolo’s Futurist Manifesto, we will listen to the manifestos of sound-related movements, from Dada to Fluxus to minimalism, using a broad, multidisciplinary approach. Readings will include Marinetti, Cage, Satie,
Music

Sound, Space, Time — MUS2151.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
In this class, we’ll examine changing concepts of musical time in the emerging field of sound art, a hybrid form that can be described as sculpting with sound. We will focus on the approach of pioneering composers who pushed the envelope of musical notions of time such as Xenakis, Amacher, Young, and Scelsi, with special emphasis on sonic texture and shape,
Music

Sounding Home: Music of Migration, Memory, and Exile — MHI2109.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
We live in an era when millions of people across the globe—victims of forced migration, asylum seekers, refugees, and mobile workers—are on the move. Music often can tell more about the migration experience than statistical analysis and surveys. How might songs transcribe and preserve the identities, memories, traumas, joys, and hopes of individuals and whole communities?
CAPA Music

Sounding Home: Music, Migration and Diaspora — MET2240.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
We live in an era when millions of people across the globe—victims of forced migration, asylum seekers, refugees, and mobile workers—are on the move. Music often can tell more about the migration experience than statistical analysis and surveys. This course is about the experiences of immigrants and refugees in the United States and elsewhere, investigating the role
Music Society Culture and Thought

Sounding Physics — MCO4113.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Thessia Machado
Credits: 2
This class focuses on using simple mechanical devices (dc motors, solenoids, or vibration) to elicit sounds from myriad physical materials. We’ll discover the innate characteristics of materials themselves and manipulate forces that activate them, such as gravity, elasticity, tension, and friction. The class will workshop approaches to creating devices through the use of
Music

Soundtracks for Media and Live Performance — MSR4261.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Baron
Credits: 2
A course on sound design for fixed media and live performance which looks at how we technically construct the “real”. We will begin by looking at soundtracking for film, and the often subtle line between sound design and music, by spotting, finding tempo and moods in film/video sources. We then look at various live sound design projects, culled from diverse dance and drama
Music

Space is the Place: The Music and Life of Sun Ra — MPF2146.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course takes a look at the life of Herman Blount, a prolific jazz composer, pioneer of electronic music and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Blount, aka Sun Ra, was quite controversial because of his eclectic music, "theatrical" live performances and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed that he was of the "Angel Race" and not from Earth, but from Saturn (after experiencing an
Music

Spatial Audio Practices — MSR4051.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
This course will offer an introduction to the principles of spatial audio and its function in creative sound practices. The topics will include multichannel audio, Ambisonics and binaural sound, 360 spatial audio recording and mixing, sound design for VR, and immersive electroacoustic music. Along with readings and discussions, we will look at various current sound practices
Music Visual Arts

Spatial Audio Practices — MSR4051.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 2
This course will offer an introduction to the principles of spatial audio and its function in creative sound practices. The topics will include multichannel audio, Ambisonics and binaural sound, 360 spatial audio recording and mixing, sound design for VR, and immersive electroacoustic music. Along with readings and discussions, we will look at various current sound practices
Music

Stravinsky — MHI2101.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 4
In this course we will explore the musical, intellectual and artistic world of Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), one of the most exciting artists of the 20th century, and a composer whose range of interests and influences connected him to five hundred years of music and to many of the dominant artistic figures of his own time. We will watch videos of his principal operas and some of
Music

Stravinsky Seminar — MTH4103.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Allen Shawn
Credits: 2
Stravinsky Seminar will meet for the first seven weeks of the term to focus on four musical works from different phases of Igor Stravinsky’s long creative life. In the class we will analyze, discuss, listen to and, in the case of the ballet scores and the oratorio, watch, Le Sacre du Printemps (1913), Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920), Oedipus Rex (1927), and Agon (1957).
Dance Music