MUSI 7350 Interactive Media (3.0 credits)

Matthew Burtner
W / 11:00 am - 1:30 pm / CSC 304, Studio 3D
Class Number: 13824

A graduate-level seminar in interactive technology for music and multimedia. Students explore theoretical, creative and practical aspects of programming, composing and performing real-time interactive music with computers.

MUSI 7361 Composing for Improvisers (3.0 credits)

Nicole Mitchell Gantt
M / 2:00-4:30 pm / OCH S008
Class Number: 20273

Students will study, create, and perform new compositional works of their own that incorporate improvisation for a diversity of music instruments and/or electronics. The class will function as a lab to explore and extend one’s sonic aesthetics. Students will practice in the constructive critique of each other’s work.

MUSI 7519/Section 1 Current Studies/Research & Criticism (3.0 credits)

Topic: Audio Justice: Sound, Listening, & the Law

Nomi Dave
R / 2:00-4:30 pm / OCH S008
Class Number: 13825

What happens when we listen closely to the law? How do justice proceedings rely on hearings? What are the limits of possibilities of audio in the courtroom? This seminar explores the role of sound and listening in legal discourse and practice. Bringing together materials and ideas from legal studies, music & sound studies, anthropology, philosophy, and history, we will consider how formal and informal justice claims are made through sound. We will listen to and consider a range of debates, cases, issues, and creative works. The seminar is connected to the new Sound Justice Lab.

MUSI 7519/Section 2 Current Studies/Research & Criticism (3.0 credits)

Topic: Recent Writings in Pop Music

Karl Hagstrom Miller
M / 2:00-4:30 pm / S008
Class Number: 19558

This seminar introduces students to recently published books in the interdisciplinary field of US popular music studies.  The goals of the seminar are three-fold.  First, we will examine the current state of the field in terms of subject-matter, methodology, and writing style.  Second, we will place recent works within the context of the literature on popular music reaching back centuries.  Finally, we will explore the potentials of writing scholarship on popular music by comparing authors’ first monographs to the doctoral dissertations on which they were based.  We will read to learn about popular music.  We will also read to learn about writing about popular music.

MUSI 7524 Field Research & Ethnography of Performance (3.0 credits)

Topic: Poetics and Politics in the Ethnography of Performance

Michele Kisliuk
W / 2:00-4:30 pm / S008
Class Number: 19559

This doctoral seminar pushes the creative envelope at the place where performance and ethnography intersect. We will read a number of compelling ethnographic texts (mostly recent ones but a few foundational works that focus on performance and poetics) as we also explore the realm of multimodal expression in ethnography. Close reading, themed weekly writing that we share, and a focus on critical positionality will all be central to our exploration. Student interests will drive areas of concentration.