Sound Design

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science

Version 18.0 of 09/04/2019

11B1845

Sound Design

• Media & Interaction Design (B.A.)
• Informatik - Medieninformatik (B.Sc.)

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Within contemporary multimedia products and processes, sound is the medium that communicates messages most emotionally effective. Theoretical and practical know-how about the composition as well as the design of sound and its effect represents an important skill when designing multimedia products and processes.

• Theoretical basics of physical, musical, psycho-acoustic and emotional properties of sound
• Practical basics of the production (recording, synthesizing and manipulating) of sound as well as its interaction with textual and pictorial media.
• Conceptionalization and design of sound in the context of creating multimedia products and processes

Knowledge Broadening
The students are able to perceive sound differentiated especially in the context of multimedia productions;; they're able to describe qualities and properties of sounds as well as its effects.
Knowledge Deepening
Based on their observations, students are able to independently describe, plan and design sound embedded in complex multimedia productions.
Instrumental Skills and Competences
Students are able to record, synthesize, manipulate and incorporate sound within the production process of complex multimedia products and processes.
Communicative Skills and Competences
Students are able to communicate about the sound and sound design using subject-specific terms correctly and appropriately to the communicative situation.
Systemic Skills and Competences
Students independently conceptionalize, plan and design sounds for the reception within multimedia products and processes.

Practical project work, presentations, discussions, seminar

Basic knowledge about the design of multimedia as well as interactive products and processes.

Nehls, Johannes

• Nehls, Johannes
• Lehrbeauftragte

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Holger Schulze (Hrsg.): Sound Studies: Traditionen - Methoden - Desiderate. Berlin 2008Georg Spehr (Hrsg.): Sound Studies: Funktionale Klänge : Hörbare Daten, klingende Geräte und gestaltete Hörerfahrungen, transcript Verlag Bielefeld 2009John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan 1st edition 1961Robert Jourdin: Das wohltemperierte Gehirn, Spektrum 1998/2009Barry Blesser, Linda-Ruth Salter: Spaces speak, are you listening? MIT Press 2009Murray Schaefer, The Sound Scape, Destiny Books 1993

Project Report, written

Field Work / Experimental Work

Written report and experimental work

1 Term

Only Summer Term

German and English