
* This course runs subject to recruiting the minimum number of students each academic year.
Term Dates
October 2023 to June 2024
Deadline To Apply
Applications Are Open
Interview Dates
TBC Applications Are Open
Contact
Module
01
Listening Practices
This unit opens the course with a five session exploration of listening. Drawing on strategies, practices and theories of listening within sound art, music, philosophy and beyond (including therapeutic and well-being practices). Practices include soundwalking, sound mapping, Deep Listening, gong baths, and field recording. The unit involves practical and embodied workshops where students will employ these technologies to explore Margate various soundscapes, sonic lines, and social and ecological environments.
Module
02
Sound and Space
This unit introduces students to the relationship between sound and
space within the sound arts. We will explore sound and architecture,
learn how sound operates as a space and place maker, research and
create sound installations, and consider sound's role in broader
ecological practices. We will explore sound installation as a form of
artistic practice, looking at its position within art history, and we
will experiment with sound diffusion devices such as loudspeakers,
radios and dictaphones.
Module
03
Music, Sound and Communication
This unit will explore the distribution of sound and music through
broadcast, networks and digital music discovery. We will plug into
Margate’s burgeoning music and sound scene, exploring how sound and
music become tools for communication and the dissemination of culture.
Module
04
Sound Materials
We will explore the materiality of sound, and the sonic and listening
natures of materials. We will work with practitioners who make objects
that make or capture sound, noise and/or music. Students will create
their own sound objects such as musical instruments, recording
devices, ritual objects or sound sculptures.
Module
05
Sound and Community
This unit will explore sound practices that explore, record or create community. We will draw on practices as diverse as oral history, sound archiving, group improvisation and collective singing to develop our own responses to the various communities of Margate and Thanet.
Module
06
Sound and Performance
During this unit we will explore the performance of sound. We will
speak to performers and visit performance spaces in the local area,
and develop our own performance works with students acting as
performers themselves, or as sound designers, aural dramaturgs,
composers or producers.
* This course runs subject to recruiting the minimum number of students each academic year.
Term Dates
October 2023 to June 2024
Deadline To Apply
Applications Are Open
Interview Dates
TBC Applications Are Open
Contact
Sound, Society, Nature coordinators and tutors are research-active practitioners. The programme will be supported by a core team of regular tutors with visiting tutors joining to teach specialized practical modules. Student feedback will help to shape the programme each year.