This module aims to give students an in-depth understanding of the importance of sound in interactive digital media artefacts alongside the core concepts of sound design. The core principles of digital audio recording, processing and deployment will be covered. Full training in modern sound design technologies will be given, alongside methods for creating intrinsic and extrinsic soundscapes, sound effects and music for use in projects throughout the course of the degree. Students will explore sound synthesis, the physics of sound, the seven attributes of sound, psychoacoustics, human speech production, listening modes, soundscapes, musique concrete, audio aesthetics, musical composition and the physiological impact of sound.
Audio hardware and recording techniques: microphone placement, digital audio signal chain, mixers, compressors, limiters, signal routing, music sequencing
Audio software: Pro-Tools, Logic Audio, Reason, Abelton live, FMOD, sound synthesis
Sound design: Listening modes, key sounds, musique concrete, extrinisic and intrinsic sound, niche theory
Audio theory: Physics of sounds, psychoacoustics, speech production and analysis, relationship of emotion to sound, asthetics of sound and music
Audio analysis: Auditory scene analysis, diagetic and non-diagetic sound, sound in film, sound in interactive digital artefacts (games)
Sound Design Techniques: Composition and creativity, foley, audio augmentation
Mixing and Mastering: Advanced signal chaining, audio codecs, dithering, transcoding, workflow, mastering theory and techniques emerging theories and concepts that are applicable to a wide range of projects throughout the course.
Learning and teaching will consist of lectures and tutorials to ensure students have a firm theoretical grounding alongside a set of robust practical skills and abilities as well as more innovative, student-based learning methods such as case studies and practical project work.
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| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |