Auditory Cultures
Kristina Pia Hofer
Institute of Fine Arts and Media Art, Media Theory
2025S, scientific seminar (SEW), 4.0 ECTS, 2.0 semester hours, course number S05371
Description
The course focuses on field recording as an artistic practice and as a subject for critical academic inquiry. We will question field recordings as a practice of capture: how are they entangled with extractivist logics old and new, with binary epistemologies of ‘Nature’ and ‘Culture,’ with gendered and racialized structures and dynamics of power?
You will be able to approach these questions both from a practical, and a more studying/reading/theorizing end of things. We kick off in late March with a concert by and discussion with the Viennese musician and field recordist Robert Schwarz. We will follow with a theory reading session on May 12. For this session, I will assign two texts in March, which I will ask you to read before our class mid-May theory class. The main part of the seminar takes place from May 20-23, where you will be working with Karl Salzmann, Moritz Haberkorn and Felipe Duque of ÆSR Lab, and with Annie Goh and Mark Peter Wright of Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP), University of Arts London. During two studio days at ÆSR Lab (May 21 and 21), you will acquire basic skills to handle the field recording equipment available at Angewandte, and to make your own recordings. In two workshop days with Annie Goh and Mark Peter Wright (May 22 and 23), you will work with your own recordings critically. Part of the workshop days will be a public lecture at Zentrum Fokus Forschung in the evening of May 22. You then have three weeks to work on your end of term projects: audio papers for which you’ll use the sounds you have recorded in May. You will present your audio papers in your last session with me on June 16.
Examination Modalities
During the term: Attendance, reading the assigned literature, active participation in class (during workshops, group work, discussions) and at the evening events on 27 March and 22 May
End of term: Your end of term project will be an audio paper, due and to be presented in class at June 16
Comments
Classroom languages will be English and German. The texts you'll read in preparation and the workshops will be in English.
PLEASE NOTE: The registration process is now closed, as the class has reached capacity. There is a waiting list, if you want on please write me an email.
This course cooperates with ÆSR Lab - Applied/Experimental Sound Research Laboratory. ÆSR Lab is a project of cooperation between University of Applied Arts Vienna, Artistic Research Center (ARC) of Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). ÆSR Lab is funded by BMBWF and the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).
Key Words
field recording, sound studies, methodology
Dates
27 March 2025, 18:30–20:30 AIL – Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab , "Introduction feat. concert + discussion: Robert Schwarz"
12 May 2025, 12:00–15:15 Seminar Room 24 , "Theory reading session"
20 May 2025, 10:00–17:00 Zentrum Fokus Forschung , "ÆSR Lab studio day"
21 May 2025, 10:00–17:00 Zentrum Fokus Forschung , "ÆSR Lab studio day"
22 May 2025, 12:00–15:15 Zentrum Fokus Forschung , "Workshop Annie Goh + Mark Peter Wright"
22 May 2025, 17:00–20:00 Zentrum Fokus Forschung , "Public talks: Annie Goh, Mark Peter Wright"
23 May 2025, 11:00–14:15 Zentrum Fokus Forschung , "Workshop Annie Goh + Mark Peter Wright"
16 June 2025, 12:00–15:15 Seminar Room 24 , "Term wrap and presentation of audio papers"
Course Enrolment
From 03 February 2025, 00:00 to 27 March 2025, 17:00
The online registration was already closed
Curriculum Allocation
Art Education: subject kkp (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 067/003.80
Art Education: subject kkp (Enhancements study): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 067/003.80
Art Education: subject tex (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 071/003.80
Art Education: subject dae (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 072/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Bachelor): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Master): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: Lehrveranstaltung nach Wahl aus wissenschaftlicher Praxis, SE 074/003.80
Art Education: subject dex (Enhancements study): Wissenschaftliche Praxis: FOR: Lehrveranstaltungen nach Wahl aus Wissenschaftliche Praxis 074/003.80
Transformation Studies. Art x Science (Bachelor): Focus! Transformation Areas: Media Transformation 162/040.50
TransArts - Transdisciplinary Arts (Bachelor): Theoretical foundations: Theoretical foundations 180/003.01
Expanded Museum Studies (Master): Electives: Media Theory 537/080.20
Media Arts: Specialisation in Transmedia Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie und Geschichte : Medientheorie, Mediengeschichte 566/208.02
Media Arts: Specialisation in Digital Arts (2. Section): Wissenschaft, Theorie, Geschichte: Medientheorie, Mediengeschichte 567/208.02
Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (Master): Electives Area 1: Media Theory 568/005.06
Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften (Master): Electives Area 2: Media Theory 568/006.11
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Master): Study Areas 1-3: Study Area 2: Science and Technology 569/020.02
Design: Specialisation in Design and Narrative Media (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Fundamentals: Media Theory and Semiotics 576/203.05
Design: Specialisation in Communication Design (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Media Theory and Semiotics 577/203.05
Conservation and Restoration (2. Section): Geisteswissenschaften: Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte 588/204.10
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Media Theory,Art&Knowledge Transfer,Th. of Architecture,Th. and Hist. of Design 605/202.02
Fine Arts (2. Section): Scientific and Research Practice: Free Electives out of Scientific and Research Practice 605/202.80
Design: Specialisation in Applied Photography and Time-based Media (2. Section): Methodological and Theoretical Basics: Humanities 626/203.02
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Bachelor): Artistic Strategies and Approaches to Art: Deepening and Application 700/001.20
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Bachelor): Science and Technology: Deepening / Application 700/002.20
Co-registration: possible
Attending individual courses: possible