MUSI3024 Composing for the commercial world [Section 1A, 2025]
MUSI2088 Music, AI, and the future of creativity [Section 2A, 2025]
MUSI2087 Entrepreneurship and music [Section 1A, 2025]
MUSI2085 Recording techniques and sound design [Section 1A, 2025]
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 2025/26
Time: 3:00pm - 4:50pm, Monday
Venue: CRT 11.01 Seminar Room & Electroacoustic 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 and immersive audio production 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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Course Learning Outcomes |
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Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: · understand and define key theoretical concepts and principles of music recording and production in digital domain; · Extend knowledge and develop new artistic and technical skills in sound creation and design as well as the latest technology of immersive audio. |
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Assessment Methods |
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Project 1: 40% Final Project: 55% Attendance: 5% |
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Topics |
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1. Intro to Sound Recording 2. Basic sound theory and Pro Tools starter 3. Microphones and audio processing 4. The recording spaces, basic acoustics and reverberation 5. Sound and visual or vice versa, intro to sound design 6. Sound as an art form 7. Immersive audio in cinema, theatre and art world 8. Multi-channel sound production 1 9. Multi-channel sound production 2 10. Final project consultation 11. Final project consultation |
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Text & Resource Materials |
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1. Home Studio Recording – The Complete Guide; Huart, Warren and Hammack, Jerry 2. The Recording Engineer’s Handbook; Owsinski, Bobby 3. The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook; Owsinski, Bobby 4. Professional Microphone Techniques; Huber, David Miles and Williams, Philip 5. Sound; Brown, Ross 6. Theatre Noise, the Sound of Performance; edited by Lynne Kendrick and David Roesner 7. Sound Design; Sonnenschein, David 8. Theatre Sound; Leonard, John A. 9. Understanding the Art of Sound Organization; Landy 10. Soundscape, the School of Sound Lectures 1998-2001; edited by Larry Sider, Diane Freeman and Jerry Sider 11. The Sound Studies Reader; edited by Jonathan Sterne 12. Hearing History A Reader; edited by Mark M. Smith 13. The Science of Sound; Rossing, Moore and Wheeler 14. Ear Cleaning, Notes for an Experimental Music Course; by Schafer, R. Murray |
MUSI2082 Music in Western culture II [Section 2A, 2025]
MUSI2081 Music in Western culture I [Section 1A, 2025]
MUSI2077 Music and culture: an overseas field trip [Section 1A, 2025]
MUSI2074 Introduction to contrapuntal styles and techniques [Section 2A, 2025]
MUSI2059 Music, mind, and body [Section 2A, 2025]
MUSI2026 Fundamentals of music composition [Section 1A, 2025]
MUSI2010 Music of China [Section 1A, 2025]
This course focuses on the essential features of the music of China. Rather than organizing the course as a comprehensive overview, the course will be more of a series of selected topics in genres and styles of Chinese Music. The approach will be somewhat ethnomusicological: that is, not only looking at the musical works, sounds, and structures, but also trying to understand the social, regional, and political contexts in which they developed, and the aesthetics and ideology that inspired the performers, composers, and listeners, as well as the writers of music history.