SOUND ART: SOUNDSCAPE ECOLOGY

// Contact: sasha.petrenko@wwu.edu//

Class Times: Meetings will take place Face-to-Face on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 12 – 3:50, and remotely on Fridays. // Class Schedule: 6 week session start date: Tues, June 22 – July 30,2021 (Holiday, Monday July 5th)

In this a production course students gain hands on skills in field recording, audio engineering and sound design with an emphasis on acoustic ecology and how we can understand our world by exploring acoustic relationships between organisms, human and other, and their environments. Through participation in this course students will develop proficiency with 21st century technology and digital media, a deeper appreciation for the acoustic environment and all it portends, as well as explore themes in Music and Sound Art History, Cultural Studies, and Media Theory. A final collaborative assignment will provide students with real world experiences in the realm of New Media Public Art planning and execution. This class will appeal to a range of majors and minors including but not limited to Studio Art, Design, Industrial Design, Journalism, Music, Environmental Studies, Computer Science and STEAM. 

Sample assignments can include Amplifying Everyday Objects with Piezo Mics, Web-based Sounds Walks, Electronic Music Jams, and a NEW multi-lingual sound art music video collaboration with students from the North West Indian College.

Art 197D Sound Art: Soundscape Ecology
Summer 2021
Instructor: Sasha Petrenko, Assistant Professor, Sculpture & Expanded Media // Contact: sasha.petrenko@wwu.edu//
Class Times: Meetings will take place Face-to-Face on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 12 – 3:50, and remotely on Fridays. // Class Schedule: 6 week session start date: Tues, June 22 – July 30,2021 (Holiday, Monday July 5th)
Locations: Art Annex 152, FI 101 and remotely