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Michael Schmidt
Biography | Lectures | Bibliography | Resources | Links
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MEDIA SOUNDS (3 credits)
Explores the clashes and resonances between multiple styles and cultural approaches to music — from classical composition to rap, hip-hop and avante-garde sound collages. Such pioneers as John Zorn, Tan Dun, Michael Nyman, and DJ Spooky are expected to participate.
Required Books and Reading Assignments
Nyman, Michael. Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century). Cambridge University Press. October 1999, 210 pages, 2nd edition, Paperback, ISBN: 0521653835. Buy it at Amazon.
Cage, John. Empty Words. Wesleyan University Press. November 1981, Paperback, ISBN: 0819560677. Buy it at Amazon.
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PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC (3 credits)
Philosophical approaches to music – from Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche to Theodor W. Adorno and Ernst Bloch — prepare for a deeper appreciation of the visual and acoustic dimensions as well as the psychological and political aspects of the contemporary “image acoustic” (DJ Spooky), “imaginary landscape” (John Cage) and “experimental music” (Michael Nyman).
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