Class Schedule (Subject to Change)

Week 1

Monday, Jan. 12: introductions, course policies, etc.
Wednesday, Jan. 14: Foundations 1: Perspectives on Listening: Chion / Schafer
Friday, Jan. 16: Foundations 2: John Cage

Week 2

Monday, Jan. 19: No Class — MLK Day
Wednesday, Jan. 21: Foundations 3: Semiotics 101 / Pleasure vs. Bliss
Friday, Jan. 23: Foundations 4: Schaeffer / Eno

Week 3

Monday, Jan. 26: Walt Whitman
Wednesday, Jan. 28: the Objectivists (Williams, Niedecker, Reznikoff, Oppen)
Friday, Jan. 30: Projective Verse (Olson, Blackburn, Creeley)

Week 4

Monday, Feb. 2: Jazz Poetry 1 (Hughes and Baraka)
Wednesday, Feb. 4: Jazz Poetry 2 (the Beats: Kerouac, Corso, Patchen, Nordine, Kaufman, Mingus/Shepherd)
Friday, Feb. 6: Jazz Poetry 3 (Modern heirs: Moten, Ellis, Young, Nielsen)

Week 5

Monday, Feb. 9: A Crash Course in Audio Editing
Wednesday, Feb. 11: Q&A re: Audio Editing
Friday, Feb. 13: Cut-Ups / Iteration 1: Burroughs / Gysin

Week 6

Monday, Feb. 16: Cut-Ups / Iteration 2: Stein, Giorno, Bernstein, Padgett, Warhol
Wednesday, Feb. 18: Collage: Bernstein, Berrigan, Hills, EBN, Evolution Control Committee
Friday, Feb. 20: the Cento: Ashbery, Gizzi, de la Torre, Holman, et al.

Week 7

Monday, Feb. 23: Transcription 1:  Welch / Kerouac / Beckett
Wednesday, Feb. 25: Transcription 2: Ginsberg / Myles
Friday, Feb. 27: No Class — Professor Conference

Week 8

Monday, Mar. 2: Transcription 3: Goldsmith, Cotner/Fitch, Kupferberg
Wednesday, Mar. 4: Midterm Showcase Day 1 — All Midterm Projects Due
Friday, Mar. 6: Midterm Showcase Day 2

Week 9

Monday, Mar. 9: Song 1: Ginsberg/Blake, Adam, Koch/Ginsberg
Wednesday, Mar. 11: Song 2: Sanders' "Amazing Grace," Brown, Bernstein

Friday, Mar. 13: Song 3: Lou Reed, the Fugs, Carroll

Week 10

Monday, Mar. 16: No Class — Spring Break
Wednesday, Mar. 18: No Class — Spring Break
Friday, Mar. 20: No Class — Spring Break

Week 11

Monday, Mar. 23: Media Considerations/Limitations and Close Listening
Wednesday, Mar. 25: the Grain of the Voice / Physicality / ASMR / Somatic Poetry Rituals
Friday, Mar. 27: Performance 1: Mac Low / Tardos, Sontag

Week 12

Monday, Mar. 30: Performance 2: Weiner / Waldman
Wednesday, Apr. 1: Performance 3: Talk: Antin, Cage, Anderson, Ranaldo
Friday, Apr. 3: Performance 4: Multivocality: Ashbery/Lauterbach, Howe/Grubbs, Bernstein, Velvet Underground

Week 13

Monday, Apr. 6: Performance 5: Performed texts: Grenier, Brautigan, Ono, Brecht, Robson
Wednesday, Apr. 8: Poets Theatre
Friday, Apr. 10: Digital Interactivity: Funkhouser, Stefans, Johnson

Week 14

Monday, Apr. 13: Indiginous Poetics
Wednesday, Apr. 15: Sound and Subversion 1: Asemic Writing: Tzara, Schwitters, Rothenberg, Bernstein, Melnick
Friday, Apr. 17: Sound and Subversion 2: N. America: Bök, Nichol, the Four Horsemen, Reich, Lucier

Week 15

Monday, Apr. 20: Sound and Subversion 3: Europe: Bergvall, Blonk, cheek, et al.
Wednesday, Apr. 22: Sound and Subversion 4: Homophonic/Homolinguistic Translation, Mondegreens, etc.
Friday, Apr. 24: wrap-up

Final Project Due Date: TBD