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21A.519[J] Resonance: Sonic Experience, Science, and Art
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Not offered academic year 2025-2026Graduate (Fall)
(Same subject as 4.649[J])
(Subject meets with 4.648[J], 21A.507[J])
Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
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Examines the sonic phenomena and experiences that motivate scientific, humanistic, and artistic practices. Explores the aesthetic and technical aspects of how we hear; measure or describe vibrations; record, compress, and distribute resonating materials; and how we ascertain what we know about the world through sound. Although the focus is on sound as an aesthetic, social, and scientific object, the subject also investigates how resonance is used in the analysis of acoustics, architecture, and music theory. Students make a sonic artifact and written report reflecting research as a final requirement. Students taking graduate version complete assignments aligned with their graduate research.
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