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Sound in Site: Performance and Installation — MCO4702.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
This course is for students who want to create site-based performances and installations with an electronic or performative sound component. Throughout the semester, students will investigate relationships between sound and site, informed by their exploration of sonic materials, listening, site-visits and readings that address contemporary critical and conceptual issues related
Music Visual Arts

Sound in Site: Performance and Installation —

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrea Parkins
Credits: 4
This course is for students who want to create site-based performances and installations with an electronic or performative sound component. Throughout the semester, students will investigate relationships between sound and site, informed by their exploration of sonic materials, listening, site-visits and readings that address contemporary critical and conceptual issues related

Sound Installation — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: TBA
Credits: 2
In this course we'll examine and create sound pieces that differ from traditional musical performances in that they are longer, larger, and/or (more directly) interactive. Topics will include: process music and algorithmic composition; mechanized and computerized sound making; strategies for remote power, processing, and amplification; and sensors. Students will critique
Music

Sound Manifestos — MHI2106.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
This course will examine the peculiar literary and musical interactions that happen when sound artists trumpet their innovations in short prose form. Starting with Russolo’s Futurist Manifesto, we will listen to the manifestos of sound-related movements, from Dada to Fluxus to minimalism, using a broad, multidisciplinary approach. Readings will include Marinetti, Cage, Satie,
Music

Sound Manifestos —

Spring 2015
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
This course will examine the peculiar literary and musical interactions that happen when sound artists trumpet their innovations in short prose form. Starting with Russolo’s Futurist Manifesto, we will listen to the manifestos of sound-related movements, from Dada to Fluxus to minimalism, using a broad, multidisciplinary approach. Readings will include Marinetti, Cage, Satie,
Music

Sound, Space, Time — MUS2151.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 4
In this class, we’ll examine changing concepts of musical time in the emerging field of sound art, a hybrid form that can be described as sculpting with sound. We will focus on the approach of pioneering composers who pushed the envelope of musical notions of time such as Xenakis, Amacher, Young, and Scelsi, with special emphasis on sonic texture and shape,
Music

Sounding Home: Music of Migration, Memory, and Exile — MHI2109.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
We live in an era when millions of people across the globe—victims of forced migration, asylum seekers, refugees, and mobile workers—are on the move. Music often can tell more about the migration experience than statistical analysis and surveys. How might songs transcribe and preserve the identities, memories, traumas, joys, and hopes of individuals and whole communities?
CAPA Music

Sounding Home: Music, Migration and Diaspora — MET2240.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
We live in an era when millions of people across the globe—victims of forced migration, asylum seekers, refugees, and mobile workers—are on the move. Music often can tell more about the migration experience than statistical analysis and surveys. This course is about the experiences of immigrants and refugees in the United States and elsewhere, investigating the role
Music Society Culture and Thought

Sounding Physics — MCO4113.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Thessia Machado
Credits: 2
This class focuses on using simple mechanical devices (dc motors, solenoids, or vibration) to elicit sounds from myriad physical materials. We’ll discover the innate characteristics of materials themselves and manipulate forces that activate them, such as gravity, elasticity, tension, and friction. The class will workshop approaches to creating devices through the use of
Music

Soundtracks for Media and Live Performance — MSR4261.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: David Baron
Credits: 2
A course on sound design for fixed media and live performance which looks at how we technically construct the “real”. We will begin by looking at soundtracking for film, and the often subtle line between sound design and music, by spotting, finding tempo and moods in film/video sources. We then look at various live sound design projects, culled from diverse dance and drama
Music

Soup Thinking/Thinking Soup — APA2185.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: benhall@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
This course will present methods of soup preparation, soup making, and serving that will propose and present, various natural/biological and social/societal understandings of the world because first and foremost food is a narrative. Each of the methods can be combined and/or reduced/disassembled to create other soups. Participants will leave with a solid understanding of how
CAPA

Space is the Place: The Music and Life of Sun Ra — MPF2146.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course takes a look at the life of Herman Blount, a prolific jazz composer, pioneer of electronic music and creator of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Blount, aka Sun Ra, was quite controversial because of his eclectic music, "theatrical" live performances and unorthodox lifestyle. He claimed that he was of the "Angel Race" and not from Earth, but from Saturn (after experiencing an
Music

Space on Stage — DRA2142.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jiyoun Chang
Credits: 4
How do designers determine how a play will look on stage? How do they evoke the time, space, and future of the play, relate it to the world we know, but also reflect their own personal experience of architecture, time, and space? All these elements influence how we interpret a story, and the people who live in that story. Students will learn how to approach the design process
Drama

Space Shaping Image Making — ARC2208.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

Can architecture be understood in the same terms as a photograph? A piece of writing? A painting? A film? Or does it require its own vocabulary, rules, precedents, and sensibilities?

Design Architecture

Space Shaping Image Making II: Readings — ARC4119.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: TU 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

“Not long ago, a near prerequisite for vanguard architecture was an engagement with theory; lately it has become an acquaintance with art” or so observed Hal Foster in his 2011 book ‘The Art Architecture Complex.’ While ideas about what constitutes cutting edge architecture may have transformed in the decade since, entanglements between art and architecture and

Design Architecture

Space Shaping Image Making: Readings — ARC2207.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

“Not long ago, a near prerequisite for vanguard architecture was an engagement with theory; lately it has become an acquaintance with art” or so observed Hal Foster in his 2011 book ‘The Art Architecture Complex.’ While ideas about what constitutes cutting edge architecture may have transformed in the decade since, entanglements between art and architecture and

Design Architecture

Space, Place, and Power — SCT4107.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton
Credits: 4
Critical political geography, at its core, is a field interested in the relationship between space, place, and power. How are power dynamics enforced, and contested, through spatial practices and discourses? How do space and place shape intersections of power and resistance? This course will explore these questions in a variety of places, contexts, and scales, using a range of
Society Culture and Thought

Spaces, Places, and Identities — PSY4190.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
“Spaces” have geographical coordinates, “places” are territories of meaning, and “identities” are the senses we have of ourselves and others. This course will examine links among these through (1) reading theory and research in several social science disciplines, (2) writing short essays, and (3) completing one or two research papers.
Environment Society Culture and Thought

Spaces, Places, and Identities — PSY4190.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Ronald Cohen
Credits: 4
"Spaces" have geographical coordinates, "places" are territories of meaning, and "identities" are the senses we have of ourselves and others. This course will examine links among these through (1) reading theory and research in several social science disciplines, (2) writing short essays, and (3) completing one or two research papers.
Social Science

Spaceships — APA2341.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purpose and function. Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create “spaceships”. The culminating project will
CAPA

Spaceships — APA2341.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purposes and functions for learning.  Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create what I call
CAPA

Spaceships — APA2341.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purpose and function. Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create “spaceships”. The culminating project will
CAPA

Spaceships — APA2341.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Exploring the intersections of spatial and experience design. Explorers will get the opportunity to discover locations/spaces on campus [or off campus] that could be reimagined for new purposes and functions for learning.  Spaceships is a 7 week journey where we all will immerse ourselves into rapid prototyping labs as individuals and groups to create what I call
CAPA