Theater 563 - Sound Design Studio
Spring
2025
01
3.00
Amy Altadonna
1:00AM 1:00AM
UMass Amherst
53118
altadonna@theater.umass.edu
This course provides advanced application of the art and craft of sound design. The tools and processes essential to conceptualizing and implementing aural content and technical delivery of a sound design will be utilized in the department?s main-stage productions, supplemented by class projects.
Open to Theater majors only. Theater 393S and 493S Advanced study in the art and craft of theatrical sound design, looking at plays from a design-based dramaturgical point of view; exploring how to translate emotional and intellectual responses into sound, music, and noise, as well as developing advanced sound plots and documentation. Special topics can be covered as they are discovered to be relevant to the work of individuals enrolled in the course.
Interested students should have completed Theater 493S before enrolling in this course.