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Lecturer
Kieran Nolan
Fee
€50
How to apply
There are eight places, please register up to
one week in advance. Contact: Administrator,
Arts Technology Research Laboratory, phone:
01 896 4921,
email:
and
Date, time and place
23
November 2013, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., in the
Arts Technology Research Laboratory, Unit
13/14
Trinity Technology and Enterprise
Campus, Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
Duration
Four hours
Sound Design Bootcamp
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:
analog 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, ltering and equalisation
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 lm
and recreate the sound track on the fly in a
speed sound design nale
•
Throughout each session participants get
time for hands-on practice and
experimentation of the ideas that are
presented
•
Saving and exporting les 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.
