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OLET1803: Digital Communication: Sound
2024 unit information
This unit focuses on how sound can be used to present information effectively. It deals with audio recording techniques, and the creation of original music to add emotional weight to presentations, using sampling and synthesis techniques.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Analysis, History and Cultural Studies
| Code | OLET1803 |
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| Academic unit | Analysis, History and Cultural Studies |
| Credit points | 2 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. use any digital device at your disposal, such as a smartphone, tablet, or laptop, to make an audio recording
- LO2. perform a wide range of essential audio editing procedures such as cutting, fading, and cross-fading on audio you have created yourself
- LO3. select and apply audio effects such as normalisation, equalisation, reverb, and compression to recordings you have made
- LO4. know what kind of microphones and audio interfaces can be used to create more professional recordings
- LO5. know how to deal with common problems when recording in the field
- LO6. compile musical loops/samples and sound effects in multi-tracked sessions in a digital audio workstation/sequencer
- LO7. apply an understanding of simple sound synthesis by synthesizing sounds to be used in a musical setting
- LO8. program your own original drum beats
- LO9. negotiate and complete your own digital audio project.
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Semester 1 2024
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Online | Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2024
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Online | Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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