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Topics in Sound Production (401-0-21)

Topic

Seminar in Sound Production

Instructors

David Paul Chavannes

Meeting Info

Louis Hall 105: Wed 10:00AM - 12:50PM

Overview of class

This course scaffolds for Sound Arts and Industries students the creation of their Spring Symposium projects. These projects will inquire into an issue of importance to each student, including but not limited to issues of medium, method, or theme. Students will create these sound arts projects by intentionally building on other publicly available audiovisual work, learning to discuss their own work in relation to a broader field of practice. Further, in weekly critique sessions, students will help to refine each other's work by sharing and receiving descriptive, interpretive, and evaluative feedback.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, students will know how to:


  • Formulate a technical, methodological, or thematic inquiry to pursue through an original sound arts project

  • Contextualize their original sound arts project among other publicly available audiovisual work

  • Describe, interpret, evaluate, and theorize sound arts projects

Teaching Method

Small- and large-group discussion in class, small- and large-group critiques in class, in-class writing, final sound arts project

Class Materials (Required)

To fully participate in this course, students will require a computing device to access Canvas materials and make use of any editing or production software necessary for their projects. Other required materials can be borrowed from the SAI Cage.