LEARNING OUTCOMES
After the course, the students are able to
Describe the history and current practices in immersive sounds, with an emphasis on the diversity of approaches and conceptualizations
Describe a range of attentive/active spatial listening techniques and psychoacoustics, and apply them to creative or analytical work
Apply hands-on skills in capturing, processing and reproducing immersive sounds, conscious of the relationship between technology, techniques and perceptive result
Communicate and collaborate with different actors from multidisciplinary fields (scientific, technological, commercial, artistic)
Analyze and conceptualize autonomously immersive sound installations or applications both from a technical as well as a creative standpoint
Credits: 5
Schedule: 15.09.2021 - 08.12.2021
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Sebastian Schlecht
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):
Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):
Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
valid for whole curriculum period:
The content of this course includes:
History of immersive sound (entanglement between creative and technical needs)
Spatial Listening Training (Active / Verbalization)
Listening Field Trips (Soundwalks, peculiar Soundscapes)
Introduction to acoustics and sound transmission
Sound field and Object-oriented models to conceptualize and operate on spatial sounds
Physical and Virtual Sources (Loudspeakers vs Sounding Objects)
Psychoacoustics and binaural & spatial hearing
Introduction to room acoustics and perceptual correlates
Correlation vs Decorrelation / Direct vs Ambience / Deterministic vs Chaotic
Spatial Capturing of Sound
Spatial Reproduction of Sound
Processing of Spatial Sounds
User Experience & Artistic Expression
Haptics and Sound Immersion
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
Similarly, various assessment methods are employed to facilitate continuous assessment and feedback including learning diary, essays, quiz, lab process, project work, and presentation. Essentially, any assessment steps include a self-assessment, e.g., asking for quality of essay or quiz result. During the course, the student realizes an immersive sound project either artistic and/or technical.
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
Pre-Course Assignment 1h
Listening Field Trips 4h
Sound Experience for Dummy Head 6h
Crash Course in MaxMSP 8h
Sound Scape Creation with SPARTA 8h
Final Project in Stages 36h
Reading Material 24h
Contact Sessions 24h
Time to reflect 12h
Learning Diary 12h
DETAILS
Substitutes for Courses
valid for whole curriculum period:
Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
4 Quality Education
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Teaching Period:
2020-2021 Autumn I-II
2021-2022 Autumn I-II
Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=ELEC-E5690
Registration for Courses: In the academic year 2021-2022, registration for courses will take place on Sisu (sisu.aalto.fi) instead of WebOodi.
WebOodi.
We can accommodate a maximum of 20 students in this course.
Students with supporting previous courses, in particular from the minor study "Building Virtual Worlds", are preferred.