MU 380S

o This course invites students back to the origins of sound, listening, creativity, and relationship with the natural world itself. Through field recording, listening practices, sound exploration, creative experimentation, sonification, environmental interaction, and artistic research, students will explore new ways of hearing and creating music with the world around them. Students will develop creative projects that may include sound mapping, environmental improvisation, synthesis, recording hidden sounds, interactive media, acoustic ecology, bioelectric sonification, creative technology, and site-responsive artistic work with the goal of informing artistic perception and intelligence. Category: C