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Module Title	Multimedia Sound and Music
Module Code	CM555
School	School of Communications
Online Module Resources
Level	5	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None

Module Aims

The aims of the module are twofold: 1. To develop a critical understanding of the use of sound and music in multimedia. 2. To give students a practical introduction to the planning and implementation of audio and music components in mm projects.

Learning Outcomes

A detailed and critical knowledge of the use of audio and music technologies in the media industries. A practical grasp of analog and digital recording and editing techniques, and the capacity to analyse the role of sound in meaning systems.

Indicative Time Allowances
	Hours
Lectures	0
Tutorials	0
Laboratories	0
Seminars	0
Independent Learning Time	75

Total	75
Placements
Assignments

NOTE

Assume that a 5 credit module load represents approximately 75 hours' work, which includes all teaching, in-course assignments, laboratory work or other specialised training and an estimated private learning time associated with the module.

Indicative Syllabus

Sound recording from analog to digital; Relationship between images, sounds, music and text; The semiotics of sound and music; Sound and narratives including the uses of silence, sounds, sound cues and interfaces; Data compression, bandwidth and storage of audio data; Sampling and authorship; Generating music.

Assessment
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Indicative Reading List

Alkin, Glynn, Sound Recording and Reproduction. Focal Press, 1981, 1991, 1996. (3 copies in Main Lending). 621.3893/Alk Alten, Stanley, R., Audio in Media. Wadsworth Series in Production, 1999. 791.45024/Alt Altman, Rick, ed., Sound Theory/Sound Practice. Routledge, 1992. (1 copy in Main Lending). 791.43/Alt Gibson, David, The Art of Mixing. 1998. 621.38932/Gib. Holtzman, Steven R., Digital Mantras: The Language of Abstract and Virtual Worlds. MIT Press, 1996. (1 copy in main Lending). 001.30285/Hol Kirk, Ross & Hunt, Andy, Digital Sound Processing for Music and Multimedia. 1999. 621.3893/Kir Mc Leish, Robert, Radio Production. Focal Press, 1999. (8 copies in 24 HR Lending Section, 1 copy in Main Lending). 791.440232/MCL Newell, Philip, Project Studios. Focal Press, 1999. 621.3893/New. Nisbett, Alec, The Use of Microphones. Focal Press, 1974, 1995. (2 copies in Main Lending). 621.38284/Nis Wisehart, Trevor, On Sonic Art. York: Imagineering Press, 1985. 781.34/Wis Welch, Kathleen, E., Electric Rhetoric. (1999). 302.224401/Wel J

Programme or List of Programmes

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MSc Multimedia

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