COURSE SCHEDULE
This schedule is subject to change:

SPRING 2013 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.

Tuesday, April 2
Overview of sound-recording techniques and fundamentals of audio-editing.

Thursday, April 4
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

Tuesday, April 9
Examine and discuss artists and others who have used audio production as a primary storytelling medium with special emphasis on speech and language.

Reading: From Pink Noises: Antye Greie - 203; Pamela Z - 216

Thursday, April 11
Critique of Assignment #2
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Week 3 - Design & Abstraction

Tuesday, April 16
CLASS CANCELLED

Thursday, April 18
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”

Reading: From Pink Noises: Chritine Kubisch - 107; Anne Lockwood - 114; Maria Chavez - 94

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Week 4 - Design as Strategy and Choice

Tuesday, April 23
Synthesis in Design and Production

Reading From Pink Noises: Jessica Rylan - 139; Carla Scaletti - 43 ; Eliane Radigue - 54; Ikue Mori - 73

Thursday, April 25
Crit: Assignment 3

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

Tuesday April 30 -
dialogue workshop in TV studio

Thursday May 2
Sound design & ADR with workshop audio

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Week 6- Critiques
Tuesday May 7; Thursday May 9
Crit: Assignment #4 "Speculative Object" project.

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Week 7- Advanced mixing in Pro Tools
Sound design and recording techniques in video & film. Using Pro Tools to edit dialog elements and add foley, effects, and other sound cues.

Tuesday May 14 - Reading: From Pink Noises: Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat) - 263 ; Maggie Payne - 63

Thursday May 16 - In-class pro-tools workshop
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Week 8– Sound in Public and Performing Space
Surround sound, spatialization, placing sound in space.

Tuesday May 21
Pro Tools work/workshop in mixing and routing

Thursday November 23
Installation and interactive sound art
Reading: From Pink Noises: Bevin Kelley - 235; Latetia Sonami - 226; Kaffe Matthews - 34

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Week 9- Works in progress review

Tuesday May 28 - review works-in-progress

Thursday, May 30- WRITING ASSIGNMENT DUE BEGINNING OF CLASS
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Week 10 - Final Projects and Critiques.
Tuesday June 4; Thursday June 6
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