This course explores sound design, primarily within visual contexts. The course will focus on the use of sound within visual and interactive media, including film, video production, interactive user experience, web design, and gaming. Students will create weekly studio assignments in all of these areas, with an emphasis on developing a strong competence in integrating… Read more DM-UY 2113 Sound Design for Media
This course introduces IDM students to contemporary techniques and issues in audio, sound and musical research. The class covers digital and analog signal processing, synthesis, musical informatics and interaction design as it applies to contemporary music production, post-production and live performance. The course will focus on work in Max/MSP for a variety of contexts (including… Read more DM-GY 6113 Sound Studio
Analog Heaven is an experimental sound class that looks at the history, theory, and techniques behind using electricity to make sound. We will be working with technologies ranging from simple analog circuits to professional-quality synthesizers, as well as digital systems inspired by – or designed in contrast to – these circuits. Along the way we… Read more DM-UY 4913 Analog Heaven
How do we make music with minimal resources and even minimal “musical” ability? What does “musical” ability even mean in a world filled with sampling, remixes, and generative techniques? In this class, we will explore music production in the Ableton Live software. We will not be focused on playing or recording instruments, but rather on… Read more DM-UY 4913 Bedroom Beatmaking
This course explores sound as an art form and technical practice in its own right. Topics include contemporary techniques in composition, sound art, and interactive installation. Students will produce sound with narrative elements that evoke social, cultural & critical-thinking. Their final projects can be experimental podcasts, music (performance and/or recordings), multi-channel audio installations, or multimedia… Read more DM-UY 3113 Contemporary Techniques in Sound Art
This course is an orientation to the essential concepts and practices of digital audio. It is a creative and theoretical foundation studio that combines an orientation to sound and listening with fundamental techniques of digital audio production: recording, editing, and mixing. The course covers topic areas such as microphone and field recording techniques, recording studio… Read more DM-UY 1113 Audio Foundation Studio
This course will be an intensive orientation to the technical tools and skills required to design and produce interactive and real-time media for performance, installation, broadcast, and other formats, with a conceptual emphasis on the ways in which computer software and hardware can be used as a tool. We will explore the ways in which… Read more DM-GY 6013 Production Studio