Read the article "Towards an Ethics of Creative Sound". Post your 250-500 word response, using the questions below as a guide.
Discuss the distinction between "sound" and "a sound," and provide an example from your personal experience. How does this distinction become important for Andean?
Andean lists three distinct ethical dimensions to interrogate artists' use of sonic material--Awareness, Sensitivity, and Responsibility. Discuss these three categories, questions you could ask related to these categories, and how you can use them to make judgments about the use of sounds in music.
Discuss Andean's question on p. 177: Where does the artist's responsibility for a symbol end? What is your responsibility as a listener?
Bring two songs to class: one tune that uses a sample, and the "original" tune that the sample was from. If you need help finding tunes that have been sampled or that use samples, check the website WhoSampled
(https://www.whosampled.com/).
Andean, J. (2014). Towards an ethics of creative sound. Organised Sound, 19(2), 173-181.