Lectures of Guest of Composition Departmant SS

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
101MPHLS credit 1 9 hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 18 to 23 hours of self-study English, Czech summer

Subject guarantor

Slavomír HOŘÍNKA

Name of lecturer(s)

Slavomír HOŘÍNKA, Iva OPLIŠTILOVÁ, Michal RATAJ

Contents

prof. PhDr. Július Fujak, PhD.

UKF Nitra

Translucent Sound Sculptures in Site-Specific Intermedia Music

The lecture is initially focused on the juxtaposition of Marcel Duchamp's conceptual works Sculpture Musicale and John Cage's 4´33´´ - both of them became the starting point of the author's creation of acousmatic, compressed music capturing/transforming sound environments.

Learning outcomes

The lecture starts with a juxtaposition of Marcel Duchamp's conceptual works Sculpture Musicale and John Cage's 4´33´´ - both of them became the starting point for the author's creation of acousmatic, compressed music capturing/transforming sound environments. The sounds of specific environments (with their social signification), conceived as unique musical-sound sculptures, have become part of his musical-artistic projects, to which the focus, performance part of the presentation/lecture is devoted:

For example, Animation of Silence (in Music) Puppets (2000) or Nitra's Atlantis (2013), dedicated to semantic parallels between the prehistory and present of Nitra and its surroundings. Melancholy (2017), created in collaboration with the minimalist artist S. Zombek and the poet P. Milčák, transformed an abandoned cowshed near Levoča into a site-specific gallery or concert hall of sounding sound events. The sound sculpture Silo (2018), inspired by the aforementioned idea of Duchamp, was realized in the dilapidated sugar factory in Rimavská Sobota as a site-specific sonic-musical work, similarly to other „transparent“ sound sculptures - Švábení (2019) with the intermedia bricolist Petr Nikl in the New Synagogue in Žilina, or two works La Mer (2021/2022) and ÚÚÚ-FFF-ÓÓ (2021), dedicated to the important Slovak intermedia conceptualists Milan Adamčiak and Július Koller.

In the conclusion, the author discusses the phenomenon of so-called sonic photography bearing the imprint of kairos - in relation to Roland Barthes' ideas from his work La Chambre Claire (The Light Chamber, 1980) - which can be an organic part of translucent sound sculptures.

The lecture is part of the solution of the scientific task KEGA 041UKF-4/2022 Preparation of teaching texts of the supporting subjects of the study programme Cultural Studies.

Prerequisites and other requirements

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Literature

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Evaluation methods and criteria

Students must attend at least three lectures to receive 1 credit. At the end of the semester, the student will prepare a reflection (min. 1 standard page) on each topic and evaluate the contribution as well as give any suggestions.

Note

3. 4. 2023

Classroom No. 1022

13:00 - 16:00

Further information

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2022/2023:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2022/2023:

Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
06.03.2023 13:00–16:00 Slavomír HOŘÍNKA
Michal RATAJ		 Učebna KS 1022
Liechtenstein Palace		 parallel1
04.04.2023 09:30–11:30 Slavomír HOŘÍNKA
Michal RATAJ		 Učebna
Liechtenstein Palace		 parallel1
13.05.2023 10:00–16:00 Slavomír HOŘÍNKA Učebna
Liechtenstein Palace		 parallel1
27.04.2023 12:30–14:00 Iva OPLIŠTILOVÁ
Slavomír HOŘÍNKA		 Učebna 2057
Liechtenstein Palace		 lecture parallel1
05.05.2023 09:00–11:00 Slavomír HOŘÍNKA Učebna
Liechtenstein Palace		 lecture parallel1

The subject is a part of the following study plans