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Module Code:
AP401
Tutor(s):
Natanya Ford
Tutors Email:
Nford01@bucks.ac.uk
Academic Year:
Tutors
Telephone:
2015/2016
4387
Learning Outcomes:
Understand the principles of acoustics, psychoacoustics and sound theory
Understand key technological developments and their impact on production practices
Successfully identify and evaluate fundamental attributes of sound
Assessment Summary:
Assessment Task
Key Dates
Feedback due:
Feedback due:
w/c 14/12/2015
w/c 07/12/2015
w/c 30/11/2015
w/c 02/11/2015
w/c 14/03/2016
w/c 23/05/2016
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Week 2:
beginning
05/10/2015
Week 3:
beginning
12/10/2015
Week 4:
beginning
19/10/2015
Week 5:
beginning
26/10/2015
Week 6:
beginning
02/11/2015
Week 7:
beginning
09/11/2015
Week 8:
beginning
16/11/2015
Week 9:
beginning
23/11/2015
Week 10:
beginning
30/11/2015
Week 11:
beginning
07/12/2015
Week 12:
beginning
14/12/2015
Week 16:
beginning
11/01/2016
Week 17:
beginning
18/01/2016
Week 18:
beginning
25/01/2016
Week 19:
beginning
01/02/2016
Week 20:
beginning
08/02/2016
Week 21:
beginning
15/02/2016
Week 22:
beginning
22/02/2016
Assessment Period
Examinations
Assessment Period
Examinations
LECTURE: Introduction to critical listening: What is Technical Ear Training?
WORKSHOP: Frequencies, band limitations & colouration
LECTURE: Evaluating Spectral Sound Quality: Spectral Balance & EQ
WORKSHOP: EQ identification exercise
LECTURE: Dynamic Processors & Effects
WORKSHOP: Recognising Dynamic Processing + TASK5: Dynamic Compression (start)
GLW
LECTURE: Editing, Distortion & Noise
WORKSHOP: Recognising the audible artefacts of editing
E-SUBMISSION OF TASK5 ESSAY
Module Code & Name
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Week 23:
beginning
29/02/2016
Week 24:
beginning
07/03/2016
LECTURE: Room acoustics 101: Intro to acoustics & environmental spatial attributes
(reflections, reverb, spaciousness and envelopment)
WORKSHOP: Defining & depicting acoustic space
LECTURE: Spatial attributes of sources
(localisation, binaural hearing, distance and depth perception, ASW)
WORKSHOP: Spatial attributes and binaural hearing
Week 25:
beginning
14/03/2016
LECTURE: From 2.0 5.1 and beyond. Technologies for recording and reproducing space.
WORKSHOP: Researching new technologies for 3D audio
EASTER VACATION
Week 29:
11/04/2016
Week 30:
beginning
18/04/2016
Week 31:
beginning
25/04/2016
Week 32:
beginning
02/05/2016
Week 33:
Beginning
09/05/2016
Week 34:
Beginning
16/05/2015
Week 35:
Beginning
23/05/2016
Week 36:
Beginning
30/05/2016
(Bank Holiday 30
Core Text(s):
Corey, J. Audio Production and Critical Listening:Technical Ear Training. Oxford (2010) Focal Press
Howard, D.M., & Angus, J. Acoustics & Psychoacoustics 3rd Ed (2006) Focal Press
Rumsey F. and McCormick T. Sound and Recording: An Introduction, 7thed (2014) Focal Press
Additional Reading:
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (http://www.aes.org/journal/)
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (http://acousticalsociety.org)
www.soundonsound.com
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