UNIT 1: Analog Photosonic Instruments
Week 01
01 Wed, 01.19.2022
· Maker Studio Orientation with Jason Bennett
· Overview of Class/What is Photosonic Composition?
· Introduction to Electricity & Jumping Speakers
· Why DIY?
Week 02
02 Mon, 01.24.2022
· Reflect: Akiko Hatakeyama ち - Chi
· Affordances of Photosonic Composition Part 1:
o Light as scene-setting
o Light as cueing system/score
o Light as musical instrument/interface
· How We See & How We Hear
· Introduction to Soldering
03 Wed, 01.26.2022 — Build Day
· Reflect: Kittie Cooper its being is in it alone
· Introduce Project 1
· More Soldering & How to Read a Pinout Diagram
· Build together: 4093 synthesizer circuit
· Overview of electronic circuit components and how they work
Week 03
04 Mon, 01.31.2022
· Reflect: Erica Gressman Wall of Skin & Dissever
· Affordances of Photosonic Composition Part 2:
o Light as musical instrument/interface (cont.)
o Light as disruption/modification of musical gesture
o Light as disruption/modification of physical gesture
05 Wed, 02.02.2022 — Build Day
· Reflect: Open Reel Ensemble / Ei Wada
· Build together: 4093 synthesizer circuit
· Overview of sensors and different light sources
Week 04 — Project 1 Mockup of Photosonic Instrument/Sound Sculpture
06 Mon, 02.07.2022
· Reflect: Maria Chavez (1) & Maria Chavez (2), work by Robert Irwin
· Ready-mades and found technology as instruments
· Composing with Light
07 Wed, 02.09.2022 — Build Day
· Reflect: Viola Yip Vibrations Vivantes III - Madeira
· Brief Lecture: Performing the Sound v. Performing the Light (& both)
Week 05
08 Mon, 02.14.2022
· Reflect: Juliana Hodkinson Lightness
09 Wed, 02.16.2022 — Build Day
Week 06 — Project 2: Photosonic Instrument/Sound Sculpture
10 Mon, 02.21.2022 — Project 1 Sharing / Crit / Documentation
11 Wed, 02.23.2022 — Project 1 Sharing / Crit / Documentation
Week 07
12 Mon, 02.28.2022 — Composing Light (again & reframed)
· Reflect: work by Mary Corse, James Turrell, Dan Flavin
· Thomas Wilfred’s Lumia
· Demo: Max/MSP lighting system
13 Wed, 03.02.2022 — Test Drive Max/MSP Lighting Systems
· Reflect: Michal Vorfeld Lightbulb Music & work by Maja Peterić
-----------------------------------Spring Recess-----------------------------------
UNIT 2: Incorporating Digital Systems
Week 08
14 Mon, 03.14.2022 — Introduction to Max/MSP
· Reflect: works by Pamela Z
· Presentation on Instructor’s Work (https://alexchristie.space/)
· Building Software v. Building Hardware
· Distributed Agency between Human and Machine
· More Sensors
15 Wed, 03.16.2022 — Build Day
· Reflect: Adam Basanta, Julian Stein, Max Stein Music for Lamps & work by Regine Schumann
· Affordances of Photosonic Composition Part 3:
o Light as disruption/modification of architectural space
· The Audioluminous Object
Week 09
16 Mon, 03.21.2022 — Some Actor-Network Theory: Heterogenous Networks
· Relfect: Alexander Schubert Sensate Focus & Onyx Ashanti (listen to 2 Onyx Ashanti Tracks)
· The Agency of Nonhuman Actors
· Translation & Delegation: Affordances, Risks, & Challenges
· Composing Intermedia Interactions
· Introduce Project 2
17 Wed, 03.23.2022 — Build Day
· Reflect: Stephanie Cheng Smith Bell Controller work by Ann Veronica Janssens
· Mapping: Computer Control & Randomness
· Max/MSP: Sample-Based Electronic Sound
· Max/MSP: Max-to-Arduino
Week 10
18 Mon, 03.28.2022 — Data, Sound, & Light
· Reflect: work by Fred Eversley & Grimanesa Amorós,
· Affordances of Photosonic Composition Part 4:
o Light as physicalization of a digital or invisible system
· Composing Intermedia Interactions: Mirroring, Counterpoint, Simultaneity, Mixing & Matching
· Max Exercise: Create a system of multiple types of mapping
19 Wed, 03.30.2022 — Build Day
· Reflect: work by Dorothy & Mel Tanner
· Max/MSP: Synthesized Electronic Sound
· Max/MSP: Arduino-to-Max
Week 11
20 Mon, 04.04.2022 — Instrument as System as Composition
· Reflect: work by Brigitte Kowanz, Annette Sauermann
· How data flows through networks
· Intervention as compositional practice
· Create a system of interventions
· Affordances of Photosonic Composition Part 4: Non-cochlear music
21 Wed, 04.06.2022 — Build Day
· Max/MSP: Expanding Sound-Making Modules & Interactivity
Week 12 — Project 3: Immersive Photosonic ***System In Progress***
22 Mon, 04.11.2022 — Project 2 Mockup Sharing & Feedback
23 Wed, 04.13.2022 — Project 2 Mockup Sharing & Feedback
Week 13
24 Mon, 04.18.2022 — Build Day
25 Wed, 04.20.2022 — Build Day
Week 14
26 Mon, 04.25.2022 — Meet at Installation/Performance Space (The Bridge PAI)
27 Wed, 04.27.2022 — Meet at Installation/Performance Space (The Bridge PAI)
Week 15
28 Mon, 05.02.2022 — Meet at Installation/Performance Space (The Bridge PAI)
The final performance of Project 2 will take place during finals week at the Bridge PAI.