Course detail

Sound Art 2

FaVU-1ZT-LAcad. year: 2019/2020

Field recording – preparation of the topic and technical equipment. Sound walks. Recording noise outdoors and in the studio. Making sound objects. Group improvisations – strategies, rules. Self-reflection. Recording and mixing the improvisations. The preparation of group performace. Participation on the organization and making of the performance. Recording the performance. Making a CD compilation.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

MgA. Jiří Suchánek, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Audiovisual Technology (KAT)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Acquiring practical experiences with creation, realization and presentation of audio works, cultivation of self-reflection, public performance and producing of audio CD. The students will have possibility for their self presentation at the public event and to be a part of organization team of the whole Trial event. During the lessons there will grow-up the audio-lab in the sound studio. There will be happening the collective improvisations and recordings. The CDcompilation of recordings will be the final output of the summer semester.

Prerequisites

Students who have practical experience with sound processing are also welcome.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Exercises.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

credit: participation on the performance, its organization, and making a CD

Course curriculum

Practical exercises.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The summer semester will be in the form of exercises and will be focused to the practical aspects of the sound creation: from building sound-objects, field-recording, foolley, work in a sound studio, music mixing to the preparation and organization of a public performance. Course participants will present their projects publicly three times during the semester within a presentation of students' work in public spaces.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance in seminaries is mandatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

Seminar

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

MgA. Jiří Suchánek, Ph.D.

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Sound Art 2

Type of course unit