MHST230

FS - Fall & Spring

Audiovisual Composition is a 7-week foundation module open to students pursuing the Sound Design and Audiovisual Practice specialization or students wishing to gain an overview of audiovisual practices. It includes explorations of fixed-media audiovisual compositions, audiovisual performance, audiovisual installation, music video and narrative forms, encompassing the synesthetic potential of music and sound and the moving image as it manifests itself throughout audiovisual practice.

We will interrogate, conceptualize and experiment with audiovisual interactions between sound and music and static and moving images through processes of visualization and sonification, transposition and composition, from graphic scores to data sonification, visual music to expanded cinema.

Throughout the course, we will develop conceptual and practical strategies for manipulating sound and the moving image to create original works that explore this synesthetic potential to "see" music and "hear" the moving image. How can properties of sound and the moving image, such as tone/timbre, texture, noise, fidelity, rhythm, speed, repetition, and dynamics be manipulated and deployed correspondingly? Practical workshops using both graphic scores and moving image for audiovisual performance will enable us to develop audiovisual works that often exist in a liminal space where neither the music nor the moving image asserts complete authority, but where they interact and respond to each other in innovative and dynamic ways.