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MUSI2085 Recording Techniques and Sound Design
Course Type: disciplinary elective for music majors/minors, free elective for others
Prerequisite: NIL
Instructor: Mr. Anthony YEUNG
Semester: First Semester 2023/24
Time: 1:30pm-3:20pm, Tuesday
Venue: CPD-LG1.22 & LG1.19 Rehearsal Room & Electroacoustic Music Studio
This course covers fundamentals of studio recording techniques and sound design. The first part of the course is devoted to conceptual and practical skills needed for quality sound productions. The second part teaches the basics of sound design as well as their application for moving images and other media. Students will learn theories, techniques, and will develop their own aesthetics in sound design through a variety of hands-on projects.
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Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
  • understand and define key theoretical concepts and principles of digital audio, music recording and production;
  • extend knowledge and develop new artistic and technical skills in sound creation and design.
Quizzes 25%
Project 1 30%
Project 2 40%
Attendance 5%
  • Introduction to sound recording
  • Basic sound theory and Pro Tools starter
  • Microphones and audio processing
  • Recording spaces, basic acoustics and reverberation
  • Sound and visual or vice versa, introduction to sound design
  • Sound as an art form
  • Immersive audio in cinema, theatre and art world
  • Multi-channel sound production
  • Brown, Ross. Sound: A Reader in Theatre Practice. Red Globe Press, 2009.
  • Kendrick, Lynne and David Roesner ed. Theatre Noise, the Sound of Performance. Newcastle upon Type: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
  • Landy, Leigh. Understanding the Art of Sound Organization. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2007.
  • Larry Sider, Diane Freeman and Jerry Sider ed. Soundscape, the School of Sound Lectures 1998-2001. London: The School of Sound, 2003.
  • Leonard, John A. Theatre Sound. London: A & C Black, 2001.
  • Miles-Huber, David and Philip Williams. Professional Microphone Techniques. New York: MIX books, 1999.
  • Owsinski, Bobby The Recording Engineer’s Handbook. Burbank: Bobby Owsinski Media Group, 2017.
  • ------. The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook. Burbank: Bobby Owsinski Media Group, 2017.
  • Rossing, Thomas D., F. Richard Moore and Paul A. Wheeler. The Science of Sound. London: Pearson, 2001.
  • Smith, Mark M. ed. Hearing History: A Reader. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2004.
  • Sonnenschein, David. Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema. Studio City: Michael Wiese Productions, 2001.
  • Sterne, Jonathan. The Sound Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 2012.