Sound Design, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art, Reid School of Music
I have been Programme Director of the MSc Sound Design at the University of Edinburgh since 2003. The programme spans disciplines from sonic art to experimental sonification with study of film, TV and game audio along the way. I designed the programme to support the development of sound-based craft such that everyone – whatever their prior experience – will be challenged to learn something new, enhance their core skills and apply them across a range of formats. This happens amidst provocation to think deeply about sound-in-context. A thinking-while-doing approach helps practitioners find ways to express why the world sounds the way it does and to offer purposeful sounds back to the world.
I supervise around 20 MSc final projects each summer and I lead or teach on the following courses:
- Audio Crafting
- Sonic Structures
- Studio Projects
- Interactive Sound Envrionments
- Soundtracks for Screen