Postgraduate Course: Sonic Structures (ARCH11009)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | On this course students study how to shape sound over time, and learn methods of controlling the form of sound in changing contexts.
Sound designers are often commissioned to produce fixed audio that is custom-fit to picture or play but there is a growing need to expand on this technique and provide audio that can quickly be configured for dynamic contexts.
This course allows students to explore sound-based interaction methods in the context of digital media and to a lesser degree, product and prototype design.
Lectures cover a range of areas based on the development of interactive software systems for manipulating, sampling and synthesising sound in real-time. Students will investigate processes and contexts for the use of sound in areas such as sonic branding, industrial sound design, sonification, sound therapy, audio-visual performance, network-based multi-user applications and immersive simulation environments.
Student projects will be developed using the software programming language MaxMSP. |
| Course description |
The lecture titles below are a guide only, changes are likely.
01 ¿ Introducing MaxMSP, the course and sonic structures
02 ¿ Sequencing and Sampling
03 ¿ Granulation
04 ¿ Seminar ¿ Auditory Earcons and Icons
05 ¿ Waveshaping
06 ¿ Seminar ¿ Case Study ¿ Sound Design for Daimler with special guest speaker Hannes Raffaseder from the University of St Pölten
07 ¿ Listening to the Environment: fitting in and standing out ¿ Using the FFT
08 ¿ Procedural audio introduction
09 ¿ Seminar ¿ Sonification
10 ¿ Practical performance/presentation session 01
11 ¿ Practical performance/presentation session 02
12 ¿ Presentations
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 25 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 24,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 12,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 3,
Online Activities 12,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Other Study Hours 24,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
120 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Submission 1 ¿ research and software prototype 40%
Submission 2 ¿ completed sound design with software and documentation 60% |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
¿ skills in programming interactive sound environments, i.e. A detailed knowledge of the MaxMSP programming language (http://www.cycling74.com)
¿ understanding of issues of interaction raised in complex multimedia environments
¿ ability to articulate the usefulness of multiple audio components in a media or object-based environment (e.g. music, sound effects, soundscape¿)
¿ ability to translate adventurous design ideas into a plausible end product.
¿ ability to communicate a complex project idea to a varied audience
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Reading List
Dan Gärdenfors ¿ Auditory Interfaces (Essay)
www.jld.se/dsounds/auditoryinterfaces.pdf
William Gaver ¿ Auditory Interfaces (Chapter)
www.gold.ac.uk/media/19gaver.auditory%20Interfaces.97.pdf
William Gaver ¿ Synthesizing Auditory Icons (Paper) (NB Need to be on Uni Network)
portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=169184&coll=portal&dl=ACM
Seminar reading includes;
Bussemakers, M., & De Haan, A. (2000). When it Sounds like a Duck and it Looks like a Dog¿ Auditory icons vs. Earcons in Multimedia Environments in
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUDITORY DISPLAY (ICAD, 184¿189. Retrieved from citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.24.4053
You can download it here; www.icad.org/websiteV2.0/Conferences/ICAD2000/PSs/Bussemakers.ps
You will also be expected to learn the Sound Design programming system MaxMSP; http://www.cycling74.com |
Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://digital.eca.ed.ac.uk/sdhandbook/2008/08/sonicstructures-coursedescription/ |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
¿ skills in programming interactive sound environments, i.e. A detailed knowledge of the MaxMSP programming language (www.cycling74.com)
¿ understanding of issues of interaction raised in complex multimedia environments
¿ ability to articulate the usefulness of multiple audio components in a media or object-based environment (e.g. music, sound effects, soundscape¿)
¿ ability to translate adventurous design ideas into a plausible end product.
¿ ability to communicate a complex project idea to a varied audience |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
This course explores sonic structure and encourages its students to develop sound design that changes according to context.
Sound designers are often commissioned to produce fixed audio that is custom-fit to picture or play but there is a growing need to expand on this technique and provide audio that can be quickly configured for dynamic contexts. Control over the form and structure of the sound is therefore required. This course allows students to explore sound-based interaction methods in the context of digital media, live performance and to a lesser degree, product and prototype design. Lectures cover a range of areas based on the development of interactive software systems for manipulating, sampling and synthesising sound in real-time. Students will investigate processes and contexts for the use of sound in areas such as real-time Foley, sound synchronization, performing sound design and to a lesser extent, sonic branding, industrial sound design, sonification, sound therapy, audio-visual performance, network-based multi-user applications and immersive simulation environments.
Your projects will be developed using the software programming language MaxMSP. In this course you¿ll study how to shape sound over time, and learn methods of controlling the shape of sound in real-time and changing contexts. |
| Keywords | Industrial sound design, procedural audio, computer sound processing, real-time audio, MaxMSP |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Martin Parker
Tel: (0131 6)50 2333
Email: martin.parker@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Emma Binks
Tel: (0131 6)51 5740
Email: Emma.Binks@ed.ac.uk |
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