Discipline Skills A (Sound Design) (THTR60035)

Discipline Skills A (Sound Design) addresses knowledge and techniques specific to the discipline of sound design in the performing arts. Through skills classes and contextual seminars the subject explores the role of the sound designer as part of a creative team, defining the skills, qualities and processes that are essential to the practicing professional sound designer.

Students will also attend classes focused on the role of text in sound design (with text conceived broadly to include the languages of plays, film and TV, non-narrative text, non-textual narrative and choreography), with the aim of developing a relationship to text as a motivator in the performance arts. On completion of this subject students should have developed an understanding of the processes of sound design for the performance, hybrid and non-performance arts, its relationship to set and lighting design, the roles of other creative artists such as other designers, the director and choreographer, and a historical and social understanding of sound in the arts.