Music

This course examines and teaches how to play popular guitar styles that have had widespread impact over the past century, including blues, rock and global folk styles.

This introduces Korean traditional music—genres, aesthetics, and performance styles. The course uses music as a medium through which we can better understand Korean culture, and makes use of audiovisual materials and live performance to enhance course content. The course is open to both Korean and International students who have an interest in Korean traditional and contemporary musical cultures.

This introductory course examines music and philosophy as intersecting practices through which human beings give meaning to the world around them. By exploring philosophy through music and music through philosophy from cross-cultural perspectives, the course looks at the variety of ways that knowledge, existence, religion, ethics, politics, culture, and sound converge.

This course deals with the concept of soundscape and the practices of sound art. Soundscape is a mental tool to listen to and to understand environment; it is also an engaging dialogue with our “umwelt.” Sound art is an array of actions and interventions to enhance and distort perception of sounds. This course includes presentations of research and artwork dealing with these topics; video documentation, attentive listening, explanation of the background of the artists and discussion about the aesthetic questions that they raise; practical processes; assemblage, a collective creation; production of a flow of small-scale creations that are progressively gathered into a publication; some outdoor sessions, some of the class happen in various urban or semi-urban environment to be able to discuss about field practices and in-site artworks where it happens. Assessment: participation, assignements, final project.