Fall 2024 Music GU4810 section 001

Sound: Foundations

SOUND: FOUNDATIONS

Call Number 10191
Day & Time
Location
M 2:10pm-4:00pm
320H Prentis Hall at 632 W 125th St
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Seth Cluett
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description This foundational course in sound will begin by exploring how listening happens as well the tools necessary capture and present that listening. Through hands-on experimentation and demonstration, this seminar will examine both the technical and semiotic use of sound as amaterial within creative practice. Fundamental studio techniques will be explored including soldering for building cables, microphones, and loudspeakers. We will also explore the building blocks of analog and digital processes for the creation of sound, including microphones (types, patterns, and placement), basic synthesis, and techniques for recording, mixing, editing, and mastering. Through creative projects that implement these skills we will learn by doing. We will study theories of sound and listening that determine or are determined by technology, from the physical and social dimensions of the sounds we use to create, language (sound as a symbol or object), acoustics (sound in space), acousmatics (sound without a visual reference), and psycho-acoustics (sound as cognitive process). This class assumes no prior knowledge or technical skill. Some reading will be assigned and we will look and listen to a lot of work, students are encouraged to participate actively in discussions.
Web Site Vergil
Department Music
Enrollment 18 students (18 max) as of 9:05PM Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Status Full
Subject Music
Number GU4810
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Section key 20243MUSI4810W001