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4.00 Credits
Course is the last of a series of core curriculum courses that emphasize fundamental technologies of audio systems and components. Students are introduced to equipment used in professional audio systems from a technical and functional point of view. Course is held in a classroom/lab with occasional lectures held in the studios. Students must pass this course with a grade of C or better to continue in the Sound program. 4 CREDITS CONCURRENT: 43-1110 INTRODUCTION TO AUDIO, 43-1115 AUDIO PRODUCTION I
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2.00 Credits
Course provides an overview of career opportunities in the field of audio. Recognized experts from a variety of fields discuss employment options for sound majors in this lecture class. Students also begin the process of developing resumes and portfolios as they explore the possibilities of their own futures in professional audio. 2 CREDITS CONCURRENT: 43-2110 BASIC AUDIO SYSTEMS
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4.00 Credits
This course is one of the first to be taken by students who select the recording concentration. Classes focus on the fundamentals of recording and mixing on both analog and digital systems, building upon the fundamentals of console design and signal processing systems as presented in Production I Audio, Basic Audio Systems, and Audio Production II. The class includes lecture-demonstrations, in-class group tracking and mixing exercises, and additional lab assignments, which are completed in the studios of the Audio Technology Center. Students may also maintain journals that will take the form of critical listening reports or other topics as assigned by the instructor each week. 4 CREDITS CONCURRENT: 43-2110 BASIC AUDIO SYSTEMS
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4.00 Credits
Course provides students with a solid foundation in working with digital audio workstations, the role of which is expanding rapidly in the field of sound and music production. Through lectures, demonstrations, and production assignments, students gain valuable knowledge of theory and practices of digital audio recording, wave form editing, digital multi-track postproduction, automated mixing, and other computer based production techniques commonly used in music and broadcast production. In addition to classroom activities, students complete assigned work in the Digital Audio Production Laboratory. 4 CREDITS CONCURRENT: 43-1115 AUDIO PRODUCTION I OR 43-2110 BASIC AUDIO SYSTEMS
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3.00 Credits
Hands-on course explores minimal microphone location recording. These techniques are fundamental to those employed in multi-track studio recording. Course highlights understanding, selection, and placement of microphones through a wide variety of acoustical environments and instruments. Emphasis is placed on classical and acoustic music, ambient sound recording, and sound effects recording. Students check out location recording equipment and record a number of events during the semester. 3 CREDITS CONCURRENT: 43-2110 BASIC AUDIO SYSTEMS
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4.00 Credits
Aesthetics and Practice in Sound Installation is designed to familiarize the student with the aesthetics and sound production considerations that define the field of sound installation in the context of gallery and museum exhibition. Lectures will consider the significance of the pioneers of installation Art dating back to before the onset of the 20th century. We will examine the contexts, aesthetics, and tools that have built the current definition of Installation Art, specifically in the context of visual arts. Lab time will build installation pieces that respond to works we have reviewed. 4 CREDITS CONCURRENT: 43-2110 BASIC AUDIO SYSTEMS
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3.00 Credits
Class provides necessary basis for understanding how we hear the world around us. With contributions from the academic disciplines of music, biology, physics, and psychology, students learn how physical attributes of time, energy, and frequency translate into perceptual attributes such as loudness, pitch, and timbre. Course examines how the human auditory system defines information it receives and how that information is processed and shaped by the central nervous system and cognitive processes. Numerous demonstrations are used to reinforce the theoretical material presented. 3 CREDITS CONCURRENT: 43-2110 BASIC AUDIO SYSTEMS
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3.00 Credits
Course reviews the fundamentals of acoustics covered in previous classes and presents all of the materials within the context of the behavior of sound in a bounded space. Practical aspects of the class are emphasized by dedicating a large portion of the semester to case studies. Demonstrations are provided throughout the semester to emphasize both theoretical and practical concepts. 3 CREDITS CONCURRENT: 43-2725 STUDIES IN HEARING OR 43-2310 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOACCOUSTICS AND SOUND PERCEPTION
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3.00 Credits
This course is dedicated to the study of applied acoustics, specifically relating to musical instruments. Students will learn topics such as vibrating strings, bars, reeds, and membranes and how these simple mechanisms couple with air to make distinctly different sounds. Students will also learn measurement techniques to analyze the vibration and sound of the instruments and correlate the measurements with what we hear. The class will include lecture/demonstrations, guest speakers, and in-class lab work. 3 CREDITS CONCURRENT: 43-2110 BASIC AUDIO SYSTEMS
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3.00 Credits
This critical listening aesthetics course simultaneously studies the historical progression of the motion picture soundtrack, from classic sound theory to modern sound theory, while analyzing the composition of each of the four distinctive elements that form it: dialogue, sound effects, music, and lull, or the decreased use of any/all of the first three. 3 CREDITS CONCURRENT: 24-1100 VISUAL AUDIO OR 43-1100 VISUAL AUDIO
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