Sound Arts and Design

Content

Our team of practising sound artists, composers and musicians of national and global repute deliver this course.

You will also benefit from a programme of visiting performers and speakers from all areas of contemporary sound practice from wildlife recording to plunderphonics.

Past students are working in a variety of areas including film sound, theatre sound design and solo performance work. Some are pursuing careers as independent sound artists; others have set up their own companies or gone on to study at postgraduate level. Students' work is regularly played and performed at venues in London and on the radio.

The work produced will include the following:

• Sound design for film and animation
• Multi-channel sound installations
• Interactive work
• Web-based pieces
• Musical concert works
• Soundscapes

You will produce this work within a context of the history, practices and concerns of the sonic arts and of the major theoretical, philosophical and aesthetic issues in the media arts.

Over the course of the degree you will have opportunities to produce work in collaboration with students and others within University of the Arts London and other Colleges and Universities.

Structure

Year 1

• Sound Creation & Manipulation
• Sound Capture
• Sound Collaboration
• Sound Culture: Perception and Communication 1
• Sound Practitioners 1
• Personal & Professional Development 1

Year 2

• Applied Sound Design
• Compositional Strategies
• Sound Arts Project
• Sound Culture: Perception and Communication 2
• Sound Practitioners 2
• General Elective
• Personal and Professional Development 2

Year 3

• Major Project Pilot
• Major Project Portfolio
• Futures
• Dissertation
• Personal and Professional Development 3