Artistic Seminar 2
Code
722021034
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências Musicais
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Vincent Debut
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To be able to conceive audio projects, keeping in consideration all stages of it.
b)To develope technical and criative analysis competencies about diverse musical procuctions made by other professionals.
c) tp be able to understand the specific role of sound recording, editing and dissemination technologies on musical context.
d) To be able to develop audio editing projects on a creative way.
e) To know the technical terms specific to the domain and use it correctly.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. Studio: Key components of the sound studio: configuration and connections of those components. Signal flow (analog and digital). Mixer (analog and digital), effects processors and monitoring. Fundamental studio workflow: recording / digitalization; mixing and mastering.
2 Sound recording: Features of microphones and selection of these according to specific purposes. Sound recording techniques.
3. Editing Technique and practice: Digital Audio Workstations: fundamental digital studio tool; Mixing techniques;
Equalization and specificity of audio signal; Dynamics: compression, gate and limiter; Effects processing; Destructive and non-destructive editing;
4. Sound studio and musical composition: Specificity of audiovisual production (TV, advertising, film); Webdesign; games, multimedia, computer animation, etc. Analog and digital synthesizers. Principles of sound synthesis and music composition. Sampling and musical creation.
Bibliography
Alkin, G. (1989). Sound Techniques for Video and TV. London: Focal Press
Bornoff, Jack (1972). Music and the Twentieth Century Media. Florence: International Music Council.
Chion, M. (1993). La Audiovisión. Barcelona: Paidós.
Cook, Nicholas (1998). Analysing Musical Multimedia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fonseca, Nuno (2006). Introdução à Engenharia do Som. Lisboa: Lidel.
Gottlieb, Gary (2007). Shaping Sound in the Studio and Beyond: Audio Aesthetics and Technology. Boston: Delmar.
Teaching method
Teaching methods:
Theoretical and practical lessons. Expository presentation of subjects. Musical works and texts analysis. Practical laboratory work.
Evaluation method
Evaluation methods:
Critical revision of a disc and its oral presentation (30%). A sound design project, with its oral presentation and written report (70%).