Prof. Dr. Sabine Sanio
Sound, Media, and Modern Culture: An Introduction to Sound Studies and Sonic Arts
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Lietzenburgerstr., room 314, dates and times tba
Achtung: für Studierende der Fakultät Musik nicht als Studium-Generale-Leistung anerkennbar.

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This lecture is an introduction to contemporary positions of sound studies and the sonic arts. We will cover theoretical and scholarly key questions of this still young academic discipline as well as aesthetic and musical topics of the only slightly older discipline of sonic arts. Parallels and differences between scholarly and artistic approaches can be easily demonstrated on the basis of mutually central topics.
These are in particular the aesthetics and history of (audio) media, which have caused radical changes in listening and the production of music and have enabled the spawning of new genres such as the sonic arts. The different effects of audio media are one of the central topics of sound studies and sonic arts. One of these effects is the radical dissolution of the musical, which is nowadays almost location-independent. The result is a profound transformation of the musical performance practice: music may not only be produced anywhere, but also transferred to any desired location. It has become in itself mobile and accompanies us during all ventures, no matter how long or short the paths connected may be. But audio media have not only influenced the musical performance practice and the places where we listen to music, but also our listening and listening habits themselves. These changes can not only be understood in the context of the changed sound production but the alterations of listening have to be examined in relation to our other senses.
The lecture will go over the different developments on the basis of exemplary concepts and works of the sonic arts and discuss the changes for the self-image of musicology, that have arisen and given rise to the sound studies. The lecture offers a broad overview of aesthetic positions of sonic arts and contemporary theories of sound studies. At the same time, we will investigate exactly how the young discipline of sound studies may position itself in relation to its two most important theoretical and scholarly reference systems – cultural studies and systematic musicology.

Literaturhinweise:
Christoph COX und Daniel WARNER (Hg.): Audio Culture. Revised Edition. Reading in Music. London, New York 2017.
Dieter DANIELS und Sandra NAUMANN (Hg.): See this Sound: Audiovisuology: A Reader, 2. Aufl. Köln 2015. 
Douglas KAHN: Noise, Water, Meat. A History of Sound in the Arts. Cambridge 2001.
Brian KANE: Sound Unseen. Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice, Oxford 2016.
Caleb KELLY: Cracked Media. The Sound of Malfunction. Cambridge 2009.

Leistungsanforderungen für den unbenoteten Leistungsschein: regelmäßige, aktive Teilnahme.

Sabine Sanio, Leitung des Theorie-Schwerpunkts | Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (M.A.), Studium der Germanistik und Philosophie in Frankfurt/Main und Berlin; Promotion über "Alternativen zur Werkästhetik" in Germanistik, Habilitation über "Die Entgrenzung des Ästhetischen im 20. Jahrhundert" in Musikwissenschaft/Sound Studies; zahlreiche Beiträge zur aktuellen Ästhetik, Medienästhetik und Mediengeschichte, Sonic Arts, Neue und Experimentelle Musik und zum Verhältnis der Künste zueinander.