Since the emergence of talking pictures in the late 1920s, the formal unity of sonic and visual media has become conventionalized and is often overlooked. And yet, the ways in which images and sounds complement, corroborate, or contest one another in audiovisual media remains an important topic for consideration at the level of both aesthetics and politics. This course probes these questions, investigating the ways in which both looking and listening closely to media objects might engender new forms of subjectivity and relation to the world. Touching on the work of an array of artists (such as Robert Bresson, the Black Audio Film Collective, Pauline Oliveros, Dario Argento, Fritz Lang, and Dziga Vertov) and theorists (Adorno, Fanon, Spivak, Michel Chion), this course examines interrelations of sound and image through a range of media topics and contexts, including city symphonies, musical scoring, sampling/remix aesthetics, foley art, ventriloquism, the development of early film sound, experimental radio, and EDM. [M & S tracks]