Making Noise, Making Sound?
Spring 2023: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:00pm - 4:15pm
Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health, Room 409
How does the history of noise reflect artistic, social, and economic interactions?
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How does noise inform music, sound recordings, film, and texts?
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How does noise affect the human body to create sensations such as stress and relaxation?
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How can we become producers, not just consumers, of sound and noise?
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Investigate the concept and practice of noise.
Student teams will investigate the concept and practice of noise within the larger parameters of sound and music. The Humanities Lab setting will foster an atmosphere of creative collaborations with the ultimate objective to encourage the students to turn from consumers of information into producers of artistic and cultural artifacts (no previous experience or skill necessary). They will create soundscapes, interactive and multisensory experiences primarily steeped in sound and noise, and also generate playable, annotated soundmaps of the ASU campus to be disseminated outside the classroom. The acoustics and instruments in the Organ Hall will be available for the creation of soundscape environments. Sources will include music, artistic performances, sound/noise clips, manifestos, poetry, short stories, essays, city plans, historical accounts, scholarly works, online archives, and digital humanities projects.
Collaborations
- Joseph Clayton Mills, Sound Artist and Composer
- Lisa Lippincott, Scottsdale Sound Sanctuary
- Luciano Chessa, Composer, Conductor, Audiovisual | Performance Artist.
- Michael Compitello, Professor of Percussion, ASU School of Music
For full list of collaborators visit the Impact Outcome webpage.
Impact Outcomes
Students will share their findings with the general public in a format of their choosing. View the final semester's outcomes here.
Sound and Noise in the News
At the Humanities Lab, we strive to ensure our Labs are relevant and current. Here are some recent articles about noise and sound in today’s news!
With Sensors on Streets, France Takes Aim at ‘Noise From Hell’
An Album Made Entirely of Endangered Bird Sounds Beat Taylor Swift on a Top 50 Chart
He spent decades recording soundscapes. Now they are going to the Library of Congress.
Enrollment Information
Spring 2023: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:00pm - 4:15pm |
ISTB7, Room 409, Session C |
| Humanities Lab | Italian |
| HUL 494 & 598 | ITA 494 & 598 |
| Music | |
| MUS 494 & 598 |
