This course covers the fundamentals of sound theory and practice, digital and analog signals, basic recording and editing techniques, and approaches to sound design.

In addition, students gain familiarity with studio resources and recording equipment, and software such as sound editors and signal process applications. The emphasis is on sound as a creative medium beyond the conventional idea of music.

Assessment is by a series of assignments, and a final presentation of the major project to the Viva Examination panel.
Assignments (50%), Major Project (50%)

3 hours of seminar / studio practice per week

Students are expected to do at least an extra 4 - 6 hours of independent studio practice each week

Students selected for this stream within the BA(Digital Arts) program will be guaranteed a place.

BA(New Media Arts) students will be offered available places following interview by BA(DA) academic staffing during the Orientation Week.

• Roads, Curtis. The Computer Music Tutorial. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1996.
• Roback, Steven. Visual Quickstart Guide, ProTools 6. Peachpit Press, 2004.
• Polhman, Ken. Principles of Digital Audio. New York: MacGraw-Hill, 2000.
• Additional references will be announced during the course.