SARU (Sonic Art Research Unit)

We’ve been asked by a number of people to make available a list of some of the content utilised during the 2017 module, ‘Field / Recording / Otherness’, which took place at Oxford Brookes University as part of the ‘Approaches to Experimental Composition and Sonic Art’ MA. The lists to come are by no means exhaustive.

Week 1. The Curved Pipe.
Anahid Kassabian – Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity
Charles Darwin – On the Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Actions of Worms
John Berger – Field
Maggie Nelson – The Art of Cruelty
Roland Barthes – The Neutral
Sally Ann McIntyre – three inclements (the ocean does not mean to be listened to)
Tim Ingold – Four Objections to the Concept of Soundscape
Toshiya Tsunoda – Extract from Field Recordings Archive #3
Toshiya Tsunoda – Temple Recordings
Will Montgomery – The Crystal at the Lips

Week 2. Of Weeds.
Crawl Unit – Clay Sound
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble
Felix Guattari – Three Ecologies
Ferdinand de Saussure – Course in General Linguistics
Greg Kelley and Olivia Block – Resolution
Gregory Bateson – Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Jin Sangtae – Extensity of Hard Disk Drive
Joe Colley – Desperate Attempts at Beauty
Virginia Woolf – Street Haunting

Week 3. What we Hear is a Lie.
Agnes Varda – The Gleaners
Eric La Casa and Taku Unami – Parazoan Mapping
Jan Masschelein – An Invitation to go Walking
Jane Samuels – Shared Walking
Lauren Elkin – Flâneuse, Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Manfred Werder and Taku Unami – Detour
Rebecca Solnit – Wanderlust, A History of Walking
Tim Ingold – Ways of Walking
Walter Benjamin – Berlin Childhood Around 1900

Week 4. A Hundred Thousand Hands Writing.
Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species
Claire Parnet and Gilles Deleuze – From A to Z
David Dunn – The Sound of Light in Trees
Emmanuel Levinas – The Transcendence of Words
Felix Hess – Light as Air
Fernand Deligny – Maps and Wanderlines
Joe Colley – Hive
Joseph Clayton Mills – Atlas
Karl Von Frisch – The Dancing Bees
Marc and Oliver Namblard – Cévennes
Maurice Maeterlinck – The Life of the Bee
Temple Grandin – The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow
Vinciane Despret – What Would Animals Say if we Asked the Right Questions

Week 5. Cochlea Echoes.
Ami Yoshida – “?”
Eric La Casa – secousses panoramiques
Gernot Böhme – Acoustic Atmospheres
Henry David Thoreau – Journals
Larry Eigner – Calligraphy Typerwriters
Marie Thompson – Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism
Maryanne Amacher – Sound Characters
Mathieu Ruhlmann – This Star Teaches Bending
Michel Serres – The Five Senses, a Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
Parker Tyler – The Divine Comedy of Pavel Tchelitchew
Paul Ferdinand Schilder – The Image and Appearance of the Human Body
Paul Klee – Notebooks
Tim Ingold – Weather-World

Week 6. Agnosis.

A Short History of the Shadow
David Bohm – Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Maya Deren – Meshes of the Afternoon
Oskar Schlemmer – Triadic Ballet
Pliny – Natural History

Agnosis
Animist Orchestra – Wuwei
Anna Tsing – The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
J. W. Dunne – An Experiment With Time
Lee Patterson – Dissolving Chalk
Leila Johnston – Stopping Time
Max Ernst – The Hundred Headless Woman
Stacy Alaimo – Exposed, Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times
Timothy Morton – Dark Ecology
Close Packing of Cells
Alice Notley – I the People
F. Ronald Young – Cavitation
Hans Jenny – Cymatics
Max Ernst – Natural History
Passages from the Rig Veda
Pythagoras – Music of the Spheres (taken from Diogenes Laertius – Lives of Emminent Philosophers)
Thomas Brennan – Understanding Sonoluminescence

Not Enough and Too Much
Catherine Spooner and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock – Return to Twin Peaks, New Approaches to Materiality, Theory, and Genre
Henry Stapp – Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics
Korbidian Brodman – Brain Maps
Martha Nochimson – David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire
The Grateful Dead – From the Mars Hotel
Standing on One Leg
David Potter – Prophets and Emperors
Geoff Sample – Curlews
Lucretius – On the Nature of Things
Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
Thomas Bewick – A History of British Birds

The Birth of Bob
David Lynch – Twin Peaks Season 3, Episode 8
Deleuze and Guattari – Anti Oedipus
Georges Méliès – A Trip to the Moon
Hillel Schwartz – The Culture of the Copy
Suzzane Césaire – The Domain of the Marvelous
The Black Dog Runs at Night
Catherine Coulson – Log Lady Introductions to Twin Peaks
Chris Marker – The Owl’s Legacy
David Lynch – Twin Peaks Season 3, Episode 3 / 8
Heraclitus – Fragments
Luce Irigaray – Marine Lover
Plato – The Apology of Socrates

Unbridled Panspermia
Catherine Coulson – Log Lady Introductions to Twin Peaks
David Lynch – Twin Peaks Season 1, Episode 1
Isidore Ducasse – Maldoror
John Berger – The Shape of a Pocket
What a Difference a Wing Makes
Catherine Coulson – Log Lady Introductions to Twin Peaks
David Lynch – Twin Peaks Season 1, Episode 7
Emily Dickinson – Envelope Poems
Monsterpiece Theatre – Twin Beaks
Simon Weil – Gravity and Grace
Stan Brakhage – Mothlight
Susan Howe – My Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass