Course in Sound design for new music media

Course in Sound design for new music media

Online and at MUSIC INNOVATION HUB MILANO

The course aims to train the Sound designer capable of intervening in multiple communication processes where sound is used in new media such as sound branding, podcasting, apps, immersive sound and exhibition design.

What you will learn

The candidate will imperate, through specific skills and technical knowledge belonging to the figure of the sound designer, to design and compose music and sounds in the context of new technologies starting from the initial phase which is the choice and creation of individual sounds.

Programme

INTRODUCTION

  • Fundamental concepts of sound design and its application to music media
  • Notions of Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
  • Sound marketing: sound branding and its use in advertising
  • Case studies

SOUNDSCAPE COMPOSITION (fields of application of the soundscape concept in music production)

  • Techniques for creating multi-level sound productions and complex sound environments
  • Creative use of field recordings and natural sounds to create customised sound libraries

SOUND IN MULTIMEDIA AND MULTICHANNEL INSTALLATIONS

  • Insight into the possibilities of using sound design in multimedia installation contexts
  • Sound composition techniques for multi-channel environments
  • Exploring the creative opportunities offered by immersive sound environments

THE PODCAST AS A FORM OF SOUND EXPRESSION

  • Introduction to podcasting and its various applications
  • Creation of a music podcast, with a focus on sound design and narration
  • Podcast distribution, promotion and monetisation

PROTECTION OF MUSICAL WORKS

  • The music scene today
  • Copyright and copyright
  • Music licences
  • The digital transition: NFT, metaverse, blockchain

IN-PRESENCE PHASE

Sound theory, understanding how to produce certain effects and how to structure the work:

  • The creative brief
  • In dialogue with the director, production company and agency

The creative approach to work:

  • musical direction and sound palette
  • acquire and create auditory elements for new media
  • library, foley, synth

Project management:

  • timing, versioning
  • sound manipulation and finalisation

Classroom workshop: audio sound reinforcement

MIXING, MASTERING AND FINALISATION OF PRODUCTIONS (in the recording studio)

  • Mixing principles to optimise sound
  • Work on balance, spatiality and coherence of sounds
  • Mastering techniques to ensure professional production quality and consolidate the atmosphere

A licence for Ableton Live Standard will be provided.

However, if you already have it, you can use other audio editing software.

Job opportunities

The course in Sound design for new music media of Italian Design Institute is designed for those who, through the guidance of experienced professionals in the sector, wish to become sound designers by applying their creativity and knowledge of the sound world through transversal skills required by the labour market.

The opportunities to work in this field today are growing: the knowledge acquired during the course will enable the student to successfully pursue the profession, entering the market as a freelancer, or within private or communications companies.

Phases of the course

Propaedeutics: Textbooks, audio listens, e-learning platform
Online phase: 40 hours
Classroom phase: 32 face-to-face classroom hours
Project work: 45 days to develop a project following the outline provided by the lecturer

Internship: 200 hours on national territory
Dissemination of the professional profile nationwide

Facilitations

Possibility of financing the enrolment fee Video CV editing and updating for dissemination to companies in the sector at the end of the training course in the candidate's region of preference.

How to apply

Fill out the information request form and we will contact you within a few days. In the selection of candidates the scholastic CV, work experience and motivational letter will be considered. It is possible and advisable to send a portfolio of previous works. The examining commission, considering these elements, will communicate the result of the selection and the admission to the Course by filling the application form.

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Course in Sound design for new music media 

COURSE PHASES

Propaedeutics: Textbooks, audio listens, e-learning platform
Online phase: 40 hours
Classroom phase: 32 face-to-face classroom hours
Project work: 45 days to develop a project following the outline provided by the lecturer

Internship: 200 hours on national territory
Dissemination of the professional profile nationwide

Video CV realisation
Reworking and updating the CV for dissemination to companies in the sector at regional or national level

CERTIFICATES

Certificate of attendance
Certificate of project work
Internship certificate

 

COURSE FEATURES

The course aims to train the Sound designer capable of intervening in multiple communication processes where sound is used in new media such as sound branding, podcasting, apps, immersive sound and exhibition design.

PROFESSIONAL OUTLETS

The course in Sound design for new music media of Italian Design Institute is designed for those who, through the guidance of experienced professionals in the sector, wish to become sound designers by applying their creativity and knowledge of the sound world through transversal skills required by the labour market.

The opportunities to work in this field today are growing: the knowledge acquired during the course will enable the student to successfully pursue the profession, entering the market as a freelancer, or within private or communications companies.

TRAINING COURSE

PROGRAM

INTRODUCTION

  • Fundamental concepts of sound design and its application to music media
  • Notions of Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
  • Sound marketing: sound branding and its use in advertising
  • Case studies

SOUNDSCAPE COMPOSITION (fields of application of the soundscape concept in music production)

  • Techniques for creating multi-level sound productions and complex sound environments
  • Creative use of field recordings and natural sounds to create customised sound libraries

SOUND IN MULTIMEDIA AND MULTICHANNEL INSTALLATIONS

  • Insight into the possibilities of using sound design in multimedia installation contexts
  • Sound composition techniques for multi-channel environments
  • Exploring the creative opportunities offered by immersive sound environments

THE PODCAST AS A FORM OF SOUND EXPRESSION

  • Introduction to podcasting and its various applications
  • Creation of a music podcast, with a focus on sound design and narration
  • Podcast distribution, promotion and monetisation

PROTECTION OF MUSICAL WORKS

  • The music scene today
  • Copyright and copyright
  • Music licences
  • The digital transition: NFT, metaverse, blockchain

IN-PRESENCE PHASE

Sound theory, understanding how to produce certain effects and how to structure the work:

  • The creative brief
  • In dialogue with the director, production company and agency

The creative approach to work:

  • musical direction and sound palette
  • acquire and create auditory elements for new media
  • library, foley, synth

Project management:

  • timing, versioning
  • sound manipulation and finalisation

Classroom workshop: audio sound reinforcement

MIXING, MASTERING AND FINALISATION OF PRODUCTIONS (in the recording studio)

  • Mixing principles to optimise sound
  • Work on balance, spatiality and coherence of sounds
  • Mastering techniques to ensure professional production quality and consolidate the atmosphere

A licence for Ableton Live Standard will be provided.

However, if you already have it, you can use other audio editing software.

TEACHERS

Active in the music industry since 1990, Dino Lupelli is now managing director of Music Innovation Hub, the first social enterprise spa active in the music sector created with the aim of developing programmes and
innovation projects of the Italian music industry factory . Within MIH's operational headquarters in Milan, in the post-industrial spaces of Base, it coordinates internationalisation projects and
professional training as Linecheck on a national and international scale, thanks to its inclusion in the INES and ETEP networks and the Jump acceleration project of the European Music Market network
Accelerator.
Former promoter of nationally important formats in his hometown, Bari, and later consultant to Arezzo Wave Festival for the management of the Elettrowave project and for internationalisation initiatives
of the Foundation of the same name until 2008, from 2005 to 2017 with Elita, he developed the Design Week Festival and Awards and a series of projects for companies such as Nike, Red Bull, Luxottica, combining attitude
entrepreneurship to a network approach serving the entire supply chain.
Since 2015, he is a founding member of Italian Music Festivals, the national association for the international promotion of the Italian festival system, a member and consultant of Assomusica, the leading association of music promoters, and a partner of Artlab, the national platform for the development of the Italian cultural industry.

He graduated in Musicology and Musical Heritage from the University of Lecce with a thesis on the History of Music for Film (on the cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski) and later specialised with an International Master's degree in Management and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage at the ISUFI Institute of the University of Salento. He then decided to specialise in Communication, Design and New Media, also at ISUFI. In 2010 he was one of the founders of the collective Aips (Italian Archive of Soundscapes) and the collective Zeugma for the dissemination of sound culture. His musical production focuses on the use of the soundscape as a narrative tool. In 2013, he founded the independent label Oak Editions and later in 2020, together with another group of musicians, he founded the Zeugma collective for the dissemination of sound culture and the promotion of Italian sound artists. In recent years his attention has been divided between live performances and workshops, training sessions aimed at all age groups with the aim of disseminating the concept of soundscape and everything that revolves around it, from the creation of performance interventions, to installations, to the creation of online sound maps. Towards the end of 2021 he created White Noise Studioin Apulia, where he currently resides. A professional space also dedicated to training on the topics that are closest to his heart. In recent years he has performed or exhibited his installations at: LUISS HUB - Milan, Espronceda Barcelona, Casa Futura Pietra, SOUNDFJORD - London with AIPS Collective (Postcards from Italy), MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome ('Sleephonia' with A.Ballerini), MADRID MUESTRARTE EXPOSICION COLLECTIVA, MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo a Roma, RAI RADIO 3 LIVE, Sapienza Università di Roma etc., CINEPORTO Bari Apulia Film etc.

TEACHERS

Composer, music producer and sound designer. 

After an academic education, he obtained a diploma of merit in Film Music from Oscar-winning composer Luis Bacalov at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.

He does music and sound design for advertising, film, radio.

He has worked for Nike, Toyota, Spotify, Adidas, The Weeknd, Vogue, Maserati and many others.

His works have been selected at international festivals including Cannes Lions, British Arrows, Berlin Commercial, Cyclops, Milan Fashion Film Festival.

TEACHERS

TEACHERS

Informazioni aggiornate al 03/28/2024
Documento generato in data 04/05/2024 up-to-date information on the training course are available online at this link: https://www.italiandesigninstitute.com/en/corso-in-sound-design-per-nuovi-media-musicali/

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