Dissertation Proposal

Route A – Dissertation (6,000-8,000 words)

Route B – Audio Paper (30-40 minutes) – A piece of audio that follows the form of an essay

Audio Paper Manifesto –

1. The audio paper affords performative aesthetics.
2. The audio paper is idiosyncratic.
3. The audio paper is situated and partial.
4. The audio paper renders affects and sensations.
5. The audio paper is multifocal; it assembles diverse and often heterogeneous voices.
6. The audio paper has multiple protagonists, narrators and material agencies.
7. The audio paper brings aesthetics and technologies together in mediation.
8. The audio paper is a constituent part of larger ecologies.

Ideas for dissertation –

Give three advantages to writing a dissertation –

1. You are using the language of intellectuals

Give three advantages of making an audio paper –

1. It is easily accessible
2. You can use sound to

Describe three ways in which the two research routes are similar and three ways in which the two research routes are different.

What is your question?

How does noise and sound effect the aesthetic of underground Japanese cinema of the 90s.

What would your question sound like as an audio paper?

Film sounds, interviews, documentary, field recordings, foley