COURSE SCHEDULE
This schedule is subject to change:

FALL 2019 Sound Theory and Production

CLASS OUTLINE (Some items are subject to change)

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Week Zero Introduction to Sound and Recording Environments

- -> Thursday - Overview of Syllabus - How to succeed in this class
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Week 1 ­ Introduction to Sound and Recording Environments (cont'd)
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.

->Tuesday - Assignment #1: Chaos & Tranquility
Survey of contemporary and historical sound-art and sound-design.

->Thursday - Listen to Assignment #1 ; Tech fundamentals of Microphones and Audio Recording
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Week 2 - Language

->Tuesday Examine and discuss artists and others who have used audio production as a primary storytelling medium with special emphasis on speech and language.
Assignment #2: "Alien Tongue"

->Thursday 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. Introduction to the fundamentals of sound-design.

Overview of Assignment #3: “2001 Space Redux”

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Week 3 - Design & Abstraction
Sound as design-element.

->TuesdaySonic semiotics and the subtext of sound-design.

-> Thursday Crit: Assignment #2 "Alien Tongue"

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Week 4 - Design Strategies, Synthesis, Abstraction

-> Tuesday Synthesis in Design and Production

-> Thursday Crit: Assignment #3 ­ "Space Sound"

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

-> Tuesday dialogue workshop in TV studio

-> Thursday Sound design & ADR with workshop audio

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Week 6- Advanced mixing in Pro Tools
Sound design and recording techniques in video & film. Using Pro Tools to edit dialog elements andadd foley, effects, and other sound cues.

-> Tuesday Advanced Sound design and audio post-production in video & film.

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

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Week 7- Critiques

-> Tuesday + Thursday Crit: Assignment #4 "Dialogue + Design Assignment" project.

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Week 8 -Sound in Public and Performing Space
Surround sound, spatialization, placing sound in space.

-> Tuesday Lesson TBD

-> Thursday ­ In­-class Pro­Tools workshop: mixing and routing

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Week 9- Works in progress review

-> Tuesday review works­-in­-progress

> Thursday Thanksgiving Holiday - NO CLASS

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Week 10 - Final Projects and Critiques.
-> Tuesday + Thursday Crit: Assignment #5 “World Building”
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