What is the sound of protest? Of celebration? Of provocation? Of pleasure? While some creatives incorporate sound into installation projects or video works, others focus on sound alone – as noise, as music, as poetry, as spectacle – to convey meaning. This course examines the various ways in which “sound” functions as “art.” Key to understanding “sound” in and as art are the ways in which the human body senses, comprehends, and makes sound. What do we hear? What gets excluded? What makes listeners smile? What makes them cringe? Students will engage in a wide variety of listening, viewing, and site-specific offerings to explore, to experience, to analyze, and to explain the role that “sound” has and continues to play in and as art. The course will include readings on sound art from historical and contemporary perspectives, as well as accessible scientific overviews of how the human body processes sound. Additionally, there will be site specific encounters – from museum exhibitions to video art shows to Bay Area raves and EDM events – to help round out the world of sound explored in this courseHAAVC 3000 seminars continue developing students' visual analysis and research skills while providing students the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the specific topic/theme. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created. This course cannot fulfill the HAAVC 2000 requirement.

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