Sound Design - MSc

Master

In Edinburgh

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Edinburgh (Scotland)

  • Duration

    2 Semesters

  • Start date

    Different dates available

If you've studied sound or music technology at university, been working in sound professionally, or if you've been experimenting with sound as a composer, sound artist or engineer and are looking for a way to develop your voice, this programme is for you.

We offer an interdisciplinary taught Masters programme at the forefront of the University of Edinburgh’s rich expertise in the creative arts, music and digital media design.

Uniquely, we balance challenging practical project work with theoretical and critical study. This creates an inspiring and motivating work environment.

Studying for an MSc in Sound Design will expand your appreciation of the potential for sound design across a range of musical and artistic practice. Crucially, you’ll develop as a sonic artist, be challenged to rethink what sound design is and why it is central to a number of developments in the arts, the media, critical theory and even science.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Edinburgh (Midlothian/Edinburghshire)
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Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

Start date

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About this course

The degree aims to provide a rich cross-disciplinary programme of study for its students to develop skills in the area of multimedia, audio production, post-production and other digital technologies applied to sound design.

Once you’ve completed this degree, you will be conversant with appropriate technologies and with the practices and social contexts in which such technologies are developed and used.

The programme will impart practical skills within the framework of a critical and reflective appreciation of the impact and influence of digital audio technology.

Graduating with an MSc in Sound Design will open up a range of employment opportunities.

You will be qualified to join industries involving film and TV production, web design, advertising, composition and film sound, industrial audio, radio, theatre, computer games, software design etc.

Crucially, you’ll be empowered to operate as a freelance sound designer and develop the skills to confidently run your own business.

You should be able to work effectively in almost any studio or location sound environment, and offer your collaborators and employers critical insights into the role sound plays in whichever media context you are in.

If you'd like to study on a postgraduate programme at Edinburgh College of Art, you must apply through EUCLID, our online application system. You can find out how to do this on the University of Edinburgh website, where you'll also be able to:

see detailed entrance requirements for each programme on the Degree Finder
get information on what to expect after you apply
find out about study modes, start dates and fees
find out if, and how, you need to submit a portfolio, showreel or research proposal
find out where to go for further advice and guidance

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Subjects

  • Design
  • Sound
  • Sound Design
  • University
  • Media
  • Music
  • Design Media
  • Design Tools
  • Sound design tools
  • Categorization
  • Interaction DESIGN

Course programme

Semester 1 - Introduction and orientation
  • Sound Design Media is a highly practical course that helps its students develop their existing skills using contemporary sound design tools. You will produce sound libraries and systems for sound categorization, imaginative audio-editing exercises and study sound synchronization.
  • Sonic Structures combines approaches to multimedia sound design, interaction design, procedural audio, context aware sound design and configurable composition with a detailed study of the programming language MaxMSP.
  • Media and Culture is a theory and lecture-based course exploring critical theories of design, culture and digitalism.
Semester 2 - Practice, reflection and action
  • Interactive Sound Environments; explores non-linear sound design in areas of the internet and computer games design. Students will learn how to prepare podcasts and work for headphones, the FMOD sound engine and methods for creating narrative interactions in computer game-like environments.
  • Sound and Fixed Media involves learning approaches to film sound analysis, sound design for moving image, surround sound, sound in documentaries, on the radio, in film, in animation.
  • Digital Media Studio Project provides students with opportunities to develop interactive sound design far beyond the desktop, sound art and reactive, hackable devices.
Summer Project - integration
  • Students who gain enough credit in the taught courses are eligible to take the summer project. This is a collaborative or individual research project on sound design topic of your choice.

Sound Design - MSc

Price on request