Undergraduate Course: Sound Recording (MUSI08054)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art | 
College | College of Humanities and Social Science | 
 
| Course type | Standard | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) | 
Credits | 20 | 
 
| Home subject area | Music | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
http://www.music.ed.ac.uk | 
Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | Sound Recording comprises an introduction to location sound recording. The recording techniques introduced make use of the recording environment to enhance the sound of the recording in order to create a sense of authenticity. | 
 
 
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  Only available to students registered for the BMus (Music Technology) programme. | 
 
| Additional Costs |  Purchasing of recording/backup media | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13  Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Learn enabled:  Yes | 
Quota:  None | 
 
	
		| Location | 
		Activity | 
		Description | 
		Weeks | 
		Monday | 
		Tuesday | 
		Wednesday | 
		Thursday | 
		Friday | 
	 
| Central | Lecture |  | 1-11 |  09:00 - 10:50 |  |  |  |  |  
| First Class | 
First class information not currently available |  
	| Additional information | 
	Lectures week 2,4,7,9. Practical sessions (2 hours each) held in the Electroacoustic Music Studios in smaller groups (assigned in Freshers' Week) weeks 3,5,8 and 10. | 
 
| No Exam Information | 
 
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes 
+ Students will be able to make recordings in various styles on location with confidence and with an awareness of the technical and aesthetic issues such recordings involve. 
+ They will gain a basic understanding of the cultural and aesthetic issues that surround the making of instrumental and vocal sound recordings. 
+ They will be able to instigate and manage a recording session on location. 
+ They will be able to edit and master recording sessions onto CD with technical confidence using a recording studio based around a hard disk recording system | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
| Two pieces of coursework assigned throughout the year (20% each); one location recording, minimum length 5 minutes, maximum length 15 minutes, and one report, maximum 2,000 words (60%). |  
 
Special Arrangements 
| None |   
 
Additional Information 
| Academic description | 
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| Syllabus | 
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| Transferable skills | 
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| Reading list | 
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| Study Abroad | 
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| Study Pattern | 
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| Keywords | Music Technology Sound Recording | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Robert Dow 
Tel: (0131 6)50 9352 
Email: r.j.dow@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Mr Brad Herbert 
Tel: (0131 6)50 2422 
Email: brad.herbert@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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