Course Information The School of Art Sound Studio is an undergraduate and post-graduate course area with a focus on technologically mediated sound practices centred on the multi-disciplinary areas of Sound Art and Sound Design. The Studio services a suite of nine subjects delivered within a three year Bachelor of Arts degree. These subjects focus on technical, contextual and practical issues underpinning creative arts practice. Students within this discipline have a wide range of interests and desired outcomes – from simply wanting to extend, contextualise and understand their existing practice, collaborate with like-minded individuals in a collegial environment, through to more overtly vocational outcomes – actively wanting to work creatively for a living in the arts and entertainment industry. Stylistically, the course is non-proscriptive, with individual practices within the cohort representing a wide breadth of genres. These have included (but are not limited to) electroacoustic, noise, pop, phonography, rock, extended technique, postclassical, electronica, industrial, plunderphonia, glitch and ambient forms. Each subject provides a specific historical and theoretical overview that helps define key aspects of the studio area, supported by a focus on the creative application of music technology in contemporary art practice. Discussions centered around formal and conceptual approaches to composition and perception provide students with a diverse range of options in developing works that successfully operate within the broader realm of sound culture. In addition to computer and studio-based composition, students are given ongoing opportunities within the course to compose for public and collaborative outcomes. These have included compositions for the Federation Bells, the Melbourne Town Hall organ, the Urban Soundscape project (utilizing Melbourne’s various public speaker systems) and the Ceramic Gamelan (an ongoing project with the Ceramics department). School of Art, Sound is responsible for a number of national and international initiatives that actively promote the diverse range of activities and philosophies informing sound art and exploratory music. These include the annual Liquid Architecture National Festival of Sound Art the biennial Immersion Festival devoted to the theory and practice of surround sound ARC Linkage – Designing Sound for Health and Wellbeing Postgraduate cohort – eight PhD and Masters candidates investigating topics in infrasound, improvisation, sampling/appropriation, noise, and silence. Staff and graduates within Sound, School of Art maintain a high profile within the Melbourne art community whilst recording, releasing, scoring, performing and exhibiting both nationally and internationally. > next