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String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
Credits: 2
Music for string ensemble to be selected according to number and level of participants. Students must have significant previous instrumental training and previous experience. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30-8pm).
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String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: kaori washiyama
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Music for string ensemble to be selected according to number and level of participants. Students must have significant previous instrumental training and previous experience. Corequisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tuesday, 6:30 - 8pm).
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String Chamber Ensemble — MPF4235.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Kaori Washiyama
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
An intensive, performance-oriented exploration of the chamber music literature . Qualified students wishing to form a chamber music group should contact a supervising faculty member to propose a specific group of players and determine the repertoire. Co-requisite: Must participate in Music Workshop (Tues. 6:30pm-8pm)
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Studies in American Music History — MHI4103.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 4
Citizens of Bennington College make music---and listen to music---in America. What does that mean? Obscure corners of the American past still ring in the music we make, but we play on unaware. Why do we like this music but not that? How are our tastes shaped by a heritage we know little or nothing about? The dark sins of minstrel music that tracked into Broadway and Hollywood
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Studio Practices: Mixing Decades — MSR4053.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 4
This course will offer an overview of studio recording through critical listening sessions, recording sessions, and hands-on exercises. We will reverse-engineer recordings - such as Pet Sounds, Betty Davis, Purple Rain, Mezzanine, Lemonade and others - and reproduce “sound-alikes” using various techniques such as minimalist drum miking, echo chambers, using spill and isolation
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Studying Songs of Emancipation, Protest and Revolution — MUS2231.02

Spring 2026
Instructor: Kathy Bullock
Days & Time: TU 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 1

Music reflects the powerful journey of the people This course will study Music of the Struggle for Freedom, Rebellion and Civil and Social Rights, beginning with the African American journey in the United States from late 1700s to present day, and expanding to other cultures throughout the world. Using the songs and stories from the

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Sun Ra...Space Is The Place — MPF2146.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
SUN RA...SPACE IS THE PLACE takes a look at the life of Herman Poole Blount, founder and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra, considered a prolific composer of jazz and a pioneer of electronic music, Herman Blount aka Le Sony’r Ra or Sun Ra, was quite controversial for his electronic music and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed that he was of the "Angel Race" and not from Earth, but
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Sun Ra: Space is the Place — MPF2146.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
SUN RA…SPACE IS THE PLACE takes a look at the life of Herman Poole Blount, founder and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Considered a prolific composer of jazz and a pioneer of electronic music, Herman Blount aka Le Sony’r Ra or Sun Ra, was quite controversial for his electronic music and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed he was of the “Angel Race” and not from Earth, but from
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Sun Ra: Space is the Place — MPF2146.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
SUN RA…SPACE IS THE PLACE unfolds the life of Herman Poole Blount, (May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) founder and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Considered a prolific composer of jazz and a pioneer of electronic music, Herman Blount, aka Le Sony’r Ra, better known as Sun Ra, was quite controversial for his electronic music and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed he was of the “Angel
Music Society Culture and Thought

Sun Ra: Space is the Place — MHI2213.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
SUN RA…SPACE IS THE PLACE unfolds the life of Herman Poole Blount, (May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) founder and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Considered a prolific composer of jazz and a pioneer of electronic music, Herman Blount, aka Le Sony’r Ra, better known as Sun Ra, was quite controversial for his electronic music and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed he was of the “Angel
Black Studies Music

Sun Ra: Space is the Place — MPF2146.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
SUN RA…SPACE IS THE PLACE takes a look at the life of Herman Poole Blount, (May 22, 1914 - May 30, 1993) founder and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Considered a prolific composer of jazz and a pioneer of electronic music, Herman Blount aka Le Sony’r Ra better known as Sun Ra, was quite controversial for his electronic music and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed he was of the
Music Dance Literature

Super Producer Primer: Archaeology of Classic Tracks — MSR4238.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Baron
Credits: 2
Learn to be a better producer through the analysis and recreation of classic track elements. We’ll study the history, technology, and style of recordings and their techniques, looking at watershed paradigms of sonic design: from Motown to Disco to Punk to Electronica. We will remix, and recreate old tracks, turning them into fertile ground for our own, modern hit
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Taking the Car (that drives your Music) Apart — MCO4378.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Kitty Brazelton
Credits: 2
My interest as a composer is in helping you to study yourself. Switching from the car analogy to one of fabric, tiny choices, tiny filaments of decision, are what accumulate to form your music. And the cognitive pattern of musical identity, your colors and plaids, emerge from those details. A portion of this study is what we call "theory". Some of it is what we call "style"—but
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Technology and Improvisation — MUS4105.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Sam Pluta
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In the 21st Century, computer and electronic technology has emerged as a highly expressive tool for real-time musical and visual performance. In this class we will explore improvisation and live performance through technology. We will design expressive musical software environments and build hardware circuits for performance, investigate the relationships between human
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The Architecture Of Black Improvised Music — MHI2323.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 1
This seminar will involve listening, discussing, and responding to the great music creators who contributed to the 1960’s free jazz movement. Many of these icons have lectured, performed, and walked the grounds of Bennington College. Students will examine the history, structures, and techniques developed during this creative period, including personal anecdotes about the music
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The Art of Acoustic Recording — MSR4052.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: tba
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Building on the fundamentals developed in MSR2152 Beginning Workshop in Recording, this class will focus on specific techniques for creating quality recordings of a wide variety of instruments. We will develop an understanding of the sonic and musical properties that make each instrument unique as well as techniques for working with live instrumentalists and vocalists in the
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The Art of Listening — MET2239.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
Composer Pauline Oliveros once said, “Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.” In this course, students will develop their musical knowledge and active listening skills through the examination of diverse musical practices and sounds in varied social, cultural, and historical contexts. Rather than organizing the course according to genre
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The Art of Listening — MHI2239.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 2
Composer Pauline Oliveros once said, "Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening." In this course, we will listen to a wide variety of music styles from all over the world and from different time periods. However, rather than organizing the course according to genre, each week we will focus on a particular theme—the natural world,
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The Business Side of Music — MHI2322.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
The business side of music, from contracts to audio distribution platforms, is an important component of an artist’s life. Kyoko Kitamura – musician, former journalist, former executive director of the arts organization Tri-Centric Foundation – will share real life examples as well as cover various topics of interest including the effects of the pandemic, music
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The Business Side of Music — MHI2322.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 1
The business side of music, from contracts to audio distribution platforms, is an important component of an artist’s life which cannot be ignored. Kyoko Kitamura – musician, former journalist, former executive director of the arts organization Tri-Centric Foundation – will share real life examples and analyses, starting with the pandemic and the force majeure clause, its impact
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The Chip Instrument — MCO2124.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 1
Arduino interfaces have increased exponentially the ability to create stand-alone instruments and installations that have a visual immediacy while avoiding the use of outboard computers. We’ll learn Arduino code and the possibilities of small scale physical computing, from running solenoids and relays on mechanical instruments to turning the Arduino and other small circuits
Music Visual Arts

The Don Juan Project — DRA4146.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jean Randich; Thomas Bogdan
Credits: 4
Seducer.  Atheist.  Rebel.  Scoundrel.  Hypocrite.  Don Juan, the most unrepentant libertine in all of literature, has dazzled and provoked for centuries.  This project interlaces two masterpieces: Moliere’s Don Juan, or the Feast of Stone (1682), with selections from Mozart’s opera, Don Giovanni (1787).  Don Juan’s furious drive to satisfy
Drama Music