Catalog Description: This is a practice-based course in which students will record, edit, and produce audio works that document and interpret the built environment and people in public places throughout Oakland and Berkeley. Through the process of making location recordings, analyzing those recordings, composing them into autonomous works, and critiquing them along the way, this course will engage with questions of how sound can help us understand the people we encounter and the spaces we move through everyday.
Units: 4.0
Prerequisites: None
Formats:
Fall and/or Spring: 15 weeks - 9 hours of fieldwork per week
Grading Basis: Letter
Final Exam Status: Alternative to final exam