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Advanced Audio and Sound Design - MMCS380
This unit extends previous units of radio and audio production, developing an advanced understanding of audio for a variety of creative media practices. Students work with contemporary production platforms, consolidating techniques introduced in earlier units (radio, music, screen production, multimedia). The unit completes a pathway in radio, and caters for students of multimedia, screen and music production wishing to create sound design and audio-rich projects relating to their specialist interests. Students can complete a major project in radio (a documentary feature, performance, experimental or music-sound theatre work) or in any of the aforementioned areas of production – working to construct their own creative works or soundtracks, or realising new forms through interdisciplinary collaboration. Critically, this unit provides students with a sophisticated understanding of the powerfully affecting sonic dimension; how the auditory functions in audio/audio-visual media and other performance forms. Sound is considered with attention to its cultural and historical expression, the experience of reception and how meaning is constructed in a variety of works and contexts. Lectures extend and challenge students' knowledge of auditory culture and its formal developments; advanced production sessions build sophisticated levels of competency using a range of facilities and equipment.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | S2 Day - Session 2, North Ryde, Day |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Virginia Madsen |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies Faculty of Arts |
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