COURSE SCHEDULE
This schedule is subject to change:

WINTER 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, January 5
Overview of sound-recording techniques and fundamentals of audio-editing.

Wednesday, January 7
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, January 12
Examine and discuss artists and others who have used audio production as a primary storytelling medium with special emphasis on speech and language.

Wednesday, January 14

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, January 19
CLASS CANCELLED

Wednesday, Januaray 21
Critique of Assignment #2


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Week 4 - Design as Strategy and Choice

Monday, January 26
Synthesis in Design and Production

Wednesday, January 28
Crit: Assignment #3 - "2001 Redux"

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

Monday February 2
dialogue workshop in TV studio

Wednesday February 4
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 and add foley, effects, and other sound cues.
Monday February 9;

Wednesday February 11
CLASS CANCELLED

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

Monday February 16 - HOLIDAY

Wednesday February 18 - In-class pro-tools workshop: mixing and routing

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Week 8 - Critiques

Monday February 23; Wednesday February 25
Crit: Assignment #4 "Speculative Object" project.


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Week 9- Works in progress review

Monday Marcy 2- Installation and interactive sound art

Wednesday, March 4- review works-in-progress

WRITING ASSIGNMENT DUE BEGINNING OF CLASS
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Week 10 - Final Projects and Critiques.
Monday March 9; Wednesday March 11
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