🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The course examines developments in the Avant-Garde and contemporary music from the early 20s^of century, with an emphasis on radical movements and new technologies that have changed and shaped contemporary artistic expression. Students have the opportunity to study the transition from musical modernism to experimental techniques of musique concrète, of acoustic music and electroacoustic composition, as well as the formation of the artistic field of sound art.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

• understand the historical circumstances that led to the emergence of Avant-Garde music.

• analyze and perform important musical works that represent Avant-Garde and contemporary music.

•  be familiar with the experimental techniques of modern music

• understand the impact of technology on music composition.

• recognize the connections between 20th-century Avant-Garde music and contemporary musical currents.

• participate in an interdisciplinary dialogue that connects music with other forms of art and science.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (3 hours)

1. Introduction to Avant-Garde Music

2. Modernism and Modernity

3. The Birth of Musique Concrète

4. Sound Art

5. Electroacoustic and Acoustic Music

6. John Cage and the Art of Chance

7. Radio Art

8. Composers and Innovations in the Digital Age

9. Minimalism and Contemporary Electronic Music

10. Improvisation and Avant-Garde Jazz

11. Noise and Experimental Music

12. Guest Artist Lecture.

13. Interdisciplinary Approaches and Multimedia Projects

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

1. Written assignment – Critical analysis of sound work or musical composition (60%)

2. Creative response to a musical work (40%)

• Face-to-face
• Use of digital presentations and computer during lecture
• Use of online sources
• Listening sessions
• Support of the learning process and distribution of material through the electronic platform e-class.
• Communication with students via e-mai and through an electronic chat room in the e-class.

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/3932/

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Nyman, M. (2010). Experimental Music (D. Stefanou, trans.).Eight Publications.

• Lotis, Th., & Diamantopoulos, T. (2024). History and Aesthetics of Electronic Music. Kallipos.

Extra Bibliography

• Voulgaris, S. (2007). The Music of Chance and the Composition of Chaos. Fagottto Publications.

• Makridis, P. (2015). Music and Music Avangard: A Journey to the Sound of the 20th^{of the} century. Nefeli Publications.

• Mniestris Andreas. (2014). On the translation into Greek of some basic terms of Pierre Schaeffer's theory. 3rd Auditory Ecology Conference "Acoustic Ecology and Education", 14–21.

• Syrigos, G. (2003). Electroacoustic Music: From its Beginnings to the 21st Century. Nefeli Publications.

• Cage, J. (2012). Silence: Lectures and writings. Wesleyan University Press.

• Chessa, L. (2012). Luigi Russolo, Futurist: Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult. Univ of California Press.

• Cox, C., & Warner, D. (2004). Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. A&C Black.

• Emmerson, S. (2018). The Routledge Research Companion to Electronic Music: Reaching out with Technology. Routledge.

• Holmes, T. (2015). Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture. Routledge.

• Litweiler, J. (1984). The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958. W. Morrow.

• Potter, K., & Gann, K. (2016). The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music. Routledge.

• Ross, A. (2007). The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

• Toop, D. (2018). Ocean of Sound: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication. Serpent’s Tail.