We are reading Paul Miller/aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid’s Rhythm Science. In that work, Miller/Spooky asserts that “twenty-first-century aesthetics needs to focus on how to cope with the immersion we experience on a daily level” (88). Miller/Spooky pursues this inquiry through his own ideas of the “remix” and of “rhythm science,” and especially multiplex consciousness” (see his book for definitions of these concepts). Our last writing project asks you to loosely follow Miller/Spooky’s lead (both formally and conceptually), and consider your own identity in relation to and as a product of sonic experience.
Remix | Revise | Reflect. Think over the long arc of the course, including our listening, reading, and writing. Our guiding question here will be: How and why has our work together changed the way you consider, consume, and contribute sounds?
That’s a big conceptual question. To address the particularities of this, you will create a response that foregrounds changes in your own thinking (“reflect”). This may take the shape of a “compare-and-contrast” of how you currently think and formerly thought, or a demonstration of how your thinking has intensified or deepened or otherwise developed. Like Miller/Spooky and his “multiplex consciousness,” you will situate this reflection in relation to critical and other texts that are important in your thinking, demonstrating networks of texts and ideas (“remix”). Finally, while you will draw material from your reading and listening, one of your key examples will be an excerpt of your own previous writing, from any moment or modality of the course–a blog post, extract from your notes, or selection from a Writing Project. This will be excerpted in your current writing project, and will be formally and material discrete from the body of Writing Project 4 (i.e., you will in some way format the excerpt of your own writing to indicate it is an example of text previously written by you; Rhythm Science offers one example of formatting in relation to argument that may or may not be useful).
Guidelines:
-Must include extract of your previous writing (and may include links to other aspects of your writing and production for the class).
-Will present development (change, contradiction, intensification, etc.) of your own thinking; this will be critically contextualized and supported by relevant texts and other materials.
-Media-enabled and hosted on your domain.
-3.5 -4. 5 pages (1,000 – 1,250 words)
Timeline:
Complete Miller by Sunday, 4/14.
Half-draft Peer-Review: Wednesday, 4/24.
Drop-In Conferences with Rippeon: Friday, 4/26.
Drafting Workshop: Monday, 4/29.
In-class Peer Review: Wednesday, 5/1.
Drop-In Conferences, Times TBA: 5/2 – 5/7.
Verna Miller Case Presentations: 5/8 (by invitation/self-nomination).
Final link due by 5 PM, May 10.
