Concepts
Ideas the course builds on.
Sound
- Field RecordingField recording is the practice of recording sound in real environments — outdoors, indoors, urban, industrial, natural.
- Foley ArtFoley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects added to film, video, and other media in post-production.
- ListeningHearing is the passive reception of sound waves by the auditory system — it happens automatically. Listening is an active, intentional act of directed attention.
- PsychoacousticsPsychoacoustics is the study of how humans perceive sound — the relationship between the physical properties of a sound wave and the subjective experience of hearing it.
- SoundSound is a mechanical wave — a vibration that propagates through a medium (air, water, solid matter) as a series of compressions and rarefactions.
- Sound DesignSound design is the practice of creating and shaping sound purposefully for a given context.
Systems
- Decentralized SystemsA decentralized system has no central controller.
- Furniture MusicMusique d'ameublement (furniture music) is a term coined by French composer Erik Satie in 1917 for music composed to be actively ignored.
- MappingMapping is the design decision of how one parameter space connects to another — how an input drives an output.
- Thing-CenterednessThing-centeredness is a design perspective that takes the object as the starting point for design, rather than the user or the system.