Critical Reading

A course designed to improve listening,
understanding and appreciation of electroacoustic
music.

Through an integrated curriculum of listening,
analyzing, reading, and vocalizing, course
participants will gain greater facility in their
ability to perceive and describe elements of
electroacoustic music. We will use a form of
analysis called Spectromorphology to examine, in
detail, selected examples from a wide variety of
electroacoustic music. We will discuss and apply
different modes of listening and analysis (as
described by Pierre Schaeffer, Michel Chion,
James Tenney and others) as well as applicable
elements of psychoacoustics and use them to
improve our real-time auditory skills.