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MUSC 256 Developing Sound Practices in the Sonic Arts Studio Units: 3.00
Through workshopping of historical compositions in sound art and electronic music, hands-on experience provides insight into essential techniques and concepts. Students work with multi-channel mixing stations and a wealth of resources in the Sonic Arts Studio to create pieces for both pre-composed playback and live performance, and hybrids of both approaches. It is expected that students will already have working knowledge of a DAW, and understanding of basic principles of audio recording, editing and mixing.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Laboratory, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite MUSC 156/3.0 or MUSC 254/3.0 or permission of the School.
Exclusion MUSC 255/6.0*.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze and critique work in diverse areas of electroacoustic music and sonic arts, including each others’ creations, and be able to aurally recognize music technologies and concepts as employed by specific composers
- Apply specific analog and digital electronic music technologies and compositional approaches (use of contact microphones and audio transducers, recording and manipulation of vocalisms, granular synthesis as a manipulation of time and space) and understand their place in the history of electroacoustic music, sound art and related practices in the music production
- Compose for multi-channel presentation using extended surround techniques, including binaural spatialization for surround sound for headphone listening.
- Understand the relationship between time and frequency when composing using spectral sound editing and granular synthesis software and be able to fluently create using these techniques
- Compose, present and discuss solo and collaborative works for both fixed media and live improvisation for multi-channel performance, in class concerts