MUCP 4595 - 5590

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MUCP 4595 / 5590

Intermedia Performing Art

Spring 2007

Instructor: David Bithell

Email: dbithell@music.unt.edu

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Syllabus

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Readings

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Assigned Reading

Kapuscinski's Basic Theory of Multimedia

Salzman's Some Notes on Origins

N. Cook's Synaesthesia and Similarity

Artaud's Metaphysics and the Mise-en-scene

Sheppard's Partch's Vision

Smithner Meredith Monk

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Supplemental Reading

Laurie Anderson Words in Reverse

Georges Aperghis Reflections on Musical Theater

Antonin Artaud The Theater and Its Double

Robert Ashley Interview

Roland Barthes Structural Narrative

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Nicholas Cook Analysing Musical Multimedia

Preface and Part 1 Introduction: Music and Meaning in the Commercials

Chapter 1: Synaesthesia and Sililarity

Chapter 2: Multimedia Metaphor

Chapter 3: Models of Multimedia

Part 2: Introduction

Chapter 4: Madonna's Material Girl

Chapter 5: Disney's Fantasia - Rite of Spring

Chapter 6: Armide Aria Film Opera

Kyle Gann Music Theater Lite

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson Einstein on the Beach

Vinko Globokar Played Speech

Gene Youngblood Expanded Cinema

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Reading Questions

Kapuscinski's Basic Theory of Multimedia

N. Cook's Synaesthesia and Similarity

Artaud's Metaphysics and the Mise-en-scene

Sheppard's Partch's Vision

Smithner Meredith Monk

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Assignments

Translation Exercise

Cage Theater Piece Exercise

Music and Language Exercise

Varying Accompaniment Excercise

Concert Piece Proposal

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Scores

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John Cage

Sculptures Musicales

Sounds of Venice

Robert Erickson's General Speech

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Kenneth Gaburo

Twenty Sensing Compositions

	Miinim Tellig One
	Miinim Tellig Two
	Miinim Tellig Three
	Maledetto

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Vinko Globokar

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Mauricio Kagel

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F.T. Marinetti

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Pauline Oliveros

Double Basses at Twenty Paces

Four Meditations for Orchestra

Pieces of Eight

Sonic Meditations

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Roger Reynolds

Emperor of Ice Cream (part 1)

Emperor of Ice Cream (part 2)

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Lecture Slideshows

1 (Intro, Media, Tradition, Theory)

2 (Early 20th Century Multimedia Art)

3 (Universals and Synaesthesia)

4 (Artaud and Partch)

6 (Mauricio Kagel)

7 (Music and Language)

8 (Music and Video)

9 (Multimedia Dance, Meredith Monk)

10 (Multimedia Opera)

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Links

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Multimedia Dance

Troika Ranch

Lisa Wymore

Double Vision

Bill T. Jones

motionE project at Arizona State University

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Guest Artists

The Nonsense Company