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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

Intensive and specialised, MA Sound Arts is designed to further the development of your conceptual and contextual understanding of sound arts practice and its discourse.ABOUT THIS COURSEYou will be encouraged to adopt a personal and distinctive approach to your work and build a distinctive portfolio that taps into the College's Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRISAP).MA Sound Arts Intensive and specialised, this programme is designed to further the development of your conceptual and contextual understanding of sound art practice and its discourse.You will be encouraged to adopt a personal and distinctive approach to your work in building your portfolio and be engaged in practical and theoretical research that develops your creative and critical competence to an advanced level.OPEN EVENINGSThe next Open Evening for this course will be held on:Wednesday 6 DecemberFOLLOW MA SOUND ARTSTwitterFacebookTumblrSTUDENT FILMS AND PROFILESWatch // Student Voices: Ilia Rogatchevski – MA Sound ArtsCOURSE WEBSITESMA Sound Arts – TumblrLATEST NEWSPreviousNextLCC Sound Arts lecturers awarded commission for public art project in Bern, SwitzerlandFilm producer Lord Puttnam launches LCC Screen School with a message for creatives in Brexit and Trump eraSpotlight on MA Sound Arts // LCC Postgraduate Shows 2016Sound Arts research centre CRiSAP explores White Noise in two-day eventView all news

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Start date

On request

About this course

ENTRY REQUIREMENTSThe course team welcomes applicants from a broad range of backgrounds, from all over the world.Applicants to MA Sound Arts will have a good honours degree in a relevant subject such as sound arts, fine art, film and video or other related fields, or a professional or academic qualification recognised as equivalent to an honours degree.If you do not have the required qualifications, but do have professional experience, you may be eligible to gain credit for previous learning and experience .We also welcome applications from prospective students with a...

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Subjects

  • Presentation
  • Options
  • Approach
  • Composition
  • Ecology
  • Design
  • Sound
  • Sound Design
  • Materials
  • Art
  • Public
  • Project
  • Project Development

Course programme

Content

Intensive and specialised, this programme is designed to further the development of students’ conceptual and contextual understanding of Sound Arts practice and its discourse. Students are encouraged to adopt a personal and distinctive approach to their work and research.

The course includes a strong taught component combined with ample opportunities for practical work. You will be able to extend your portfolio within an academic context, engage in theoretical and practical research, develop your creative and critical skills, explore personal areas of interest in sound arts and engage in practice-based research. The aim of the course is to facilitate individual practice and guide you towards a professional career as a sound artist or into research.

The course culminates in a curated show and a public symposium where you will get the opportunity to present your work and research to an audience. The advantage of studying at LCC are the opportunities for collaboration with students from other disciplines, such as film students, both inside and outside the college.

All staff delivering the course are active practitioners and researcher, their specialist areas of interest include the following:

  • Composition
  • Sound recording and mixing
  • Phonography
  • Field recording and acoustic ecology
  • Interactive work
  • Sound installations
  • Live performance
  • Radiophonic practices
  • Sound for film
  • A variety of cross-platform work

There is also an extensive programme of visiting speakers and performers and both undergraduate and postgraduate students are extremely active in promoting their work both inside and outside the college. The sound arts department is constantly developing new links with other institutions and other disciplines and is committed to extending the boundaries of this developing discipline.

The course is designed for students who have a substantial background in producing sound-based work within the context of contemporary arts and media practice. You may have studied some aspect of sound arts - such as sound design, music technology and sonic art - at an undergraduate level.

You may come from other disciplines, such as fine art, digital arts, or time-based or performance art. Or you may have no formal qualifications but have significant experience of producing creative work with sound and wish to develop this work in an academic context.

The main characteristic of a successful applicant is that they will already have achieved a distinctive and enquiring approach to and an understanding of the aspects of sound arts that they wish to develop further in a creative and experimental academic environment.

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Course start date

24 September 2018

Course units

Each course is divided into units, which are credit-rated. The minimum unit size is 20 credits. The MA course structure involves six units, totalling 180 credits.

Autumn, Term One

Unit summary:

  • Practice-Based Research (40 credits)
  • Contemporary Themes in Sound Arts Practice (20 credits)

In Term One you will gain a practical understanding of contemporary themes in sound arts practice and explore how they relate to and situate your own practice. At the same time you will begin to develop a critical understanding of the relationship between research and practice in relation to your own work and carry out an applied research project in response to an external organisation or institution.

Spring, Term Two

Unit summary:

  • Practice-Based Research (continued)
  • Contemporary Themes in Sound Arts Practice (continued)
  • Collaborative Unit (20 credits)
Summer, Term Three

Unit summary:

  • Project Development (20 credits)
  • Curatorial Contexts for Sound Art (20 credits)
  • Major Project (60 credits)

In Term Three the taught programme will help you to explore issues around the curation, exhibition and perception of sound art in a contemporary context and you will begin work on your Major Project.

Autumn, Term Four

Unit summary:

  • Major Project (continued)

Term Four is devoted to the completion and presentation of the Major project in the context of a curated show and symposium.

If you are unable to continue or decide to exit the course, there are two possible exit awards. A Postgraduate Certificate will be awarded on successful completion of the first 60 credits and a Postgraduate Diploma will be awarded on successful completion of the first 120 credits.

Programme Specification‌

MA Sound Arts Programme Specification 2017/18 (PDF - 107KB)

Staff Course Leader

Thomas Gardner

Associate Lecturers

Dr. David Mollin, Daniela Cascella, Mark Peter Wright

Course Tutors

Dr. Salome Voegelin, Dr. John Wynne

Visiting Curator

Irene Revell - Irene is Director at Electra, which is an 'organisation-in-residence' at Wysing Arts Centre (Summer 2015). Other projects include Someone Else Can Clean Up This Mess (Flat Time House, 2014); Slow Runner (Badischer Kunstverein, 2013); Her Noise: Feminisms and the Sonic (Tate Modern, 2012); Sound Escapes (SPACE, 2009); The Wire 25 (2007). She writes for various publications including The Wire magazine and is a member of the Cinenova feminist film and video distribution working group. Irene is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Kent (MA Sound and Image) and in Autumn 2014 was a Fondazione Adolfo Pini curatorial fellow at O', Milan.

MA Sound Arts

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