COURSE SCHEDULE
This schedule is subject to change:

FALL 2015 Sound Theory and Production

CLASS OUTLINE (Some items are subject to change)

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Week 1 - Introduction to Sound and Recording Environments

We will look at early conceptual artists, composers, and multimedia pioneers who began incorporating sound into their work. Learning to record and edit basic recordings.

Monday
Overview of sound-recording techniques and fundamentals of audio-editing.

Wednesday
Listen to Assignment #1
Continue overview of sound-practices, including in film and video, and begin examining ProTools interface.

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Week 2 - Language

Monday
Examine and discuss artists and others who have used audio production as a primary storytelling medium with special emphasis on speech and language.

Wednesday

We will explore the meanings that sounds carry when we hear them and how to exploit the cultural and psychological meanings we find in sounds.

Overview of Assignment #3: “2001 Space Redux”

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Week 3 - Design & Abstraction

Monday
Sound as design-element. Sonic semiotics and the subtext of sound-design.

Wednesday
Critique of Assignment #2


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Week 4 - Design Strategies, Synthesis, Abstraction

Monday
Synthesis in Design and Production

Wednesday
Crit: Assignment #3 - "2001 Redux"

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Week 5 - Sound & Vision
Dialogue, Diegetic and Non-diegetic sound

Monday
dialogue workshop in TV studio

Wednesday
Sound design & ADR with workshop audio

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Week 6- Advanced mixing in Pro Tools

Monday
Sound design and recording techniques in video & film.

Wednesday
Using Pro Tools to edit dialog elements and add foley, effects, and other sound cues.

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Week 7- Sound in Public and Performing Space
Surround sound, spatialization, placing sound in space.

Monday
TBA

Wednesday
In-class pro-tools workshop: mixing and routing
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Week 8 - Critiques

Monday + Wednesday
Crit: Assignment #4 "Dialogue + Design Assignment" project.


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Week 9- Works in progress review

Monday - Installation and interactive sound art

Wednesday- review works-in-progress

WRITING ASSIGNMENT DUE BEGINNING OF CLASS
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Week 10 - Final Projects and Critiques.
Monday + Wednesday March 11
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