Dear class,

Ben Rubin has suggested four short readings for us in preparation for class on Thursday.

• Robert Irwin, a Dia:Beacon article by Michael Govan
• Simultaneous Perception in The Experience of Space by Tony Hiss
• The Mind's Eye, essay by Oliver Sacks
• Audible Information Design in the New York City Subway System: A Case Study in Proc. of ICAD (International Community for Auditory Display) '98 by Ben Rubin

For those who are interested, he also suggests Chp. 6 ("Electroacoustics and Modern Sound, 1900-1933") in Emily Thomson's Soundscape of Modernity book, to get at some of the theoretical issues of what it means to insert sound into a space. The entire chapter is 56 pages long, so we won't scan it but will instead bring it into class for public browsing, and also make the book available for borrowing.