This workshop introduces the most basic sound design principles, techniques and programs as well as industry standards available to any creative person who needs to add digital sound as an important component to their work.

The Sound Design Bootcamp will happen in four sessions over two days, covering the following topics:

Session 1:

• Basic theoretical principles of digital sound: analogue versus digital, sampling rate, bit rate, loudness, clipping, dynamics, frequency, envelope

Session 2:

• Basic microphone technique, recording a single sound, importing a sound into open source software
• Basic principles of doing important operations on that sound including fade in/out, panning, compression, filtering and equalization

Session 3:

• Creating space through sound – echo, reverberation, delays
• The ability to change the setting from a small room to a cave to the mountains
• The emotional impact of sound – exploring and analysing clips from films to understand the importance of sound design, layering of sound, timing of sound events and mixing

Session 4:

• Participants choose a short scene from a film and recreate the sound track on the fly in a speed sound design finale
• Throughout each session participants get time for hands-on practice and experimentation of the ideas that are presented
• Saving and exporting files to various industry standard formats including .wav, .aiff, .mp3, .mov and .mpeg

Lecturer

Cobi van Tonder

Fee

€160. A concession rate of €120 is available to students, unemployed persons and those in receipt of a social welfare pension.

How to apply

Ten places per workshop. Please register one week in advance. Contact: Administrator, Arts Technology Research Laboratory, phone: 01 896 4921, email: atrl@tcd.ie

Date, time and place

26 and 27 October 2013, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., in the Arts Technology Research Laboratory, Unit 13/14 Trinity Technology and Enterprise Campus, Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

Duration

Two days