This site contains resources for your sound design course at the University of Kent. It follows carefully the learning activities done each week and contains exercises, reading, and things to explore that you should try during the week before the next lesson, whenever you have time.
I have chosen this online method for its wider reach and for I could link to several different media other than just using text. It should give you enough guidance to assist you well all the way until the end of the year, alongside your main book, chosen by the University, which is Cipriani’s (volume 1, 2, and eventually 3 if published), available at the library.
The reason why I want to expand our classes with these resources is that in the last five years it has become evident students need good support outside the classroom hours, as there’s never enough time to attend in full to everybody’s curiosity.
I have been inspired, and I wish you’d be too, by the following sentence by Murray Schafer, to design a multi-facet, explorative, and broad approach to sound design, as a model for understanding the complex and diverse realities of sound making, for getting ready for your creative and professional work.
“Craftsmanship is knowing all about the material one works with.
Here is where the composers becomes biologist, physiologist- himself cricket.
The true acoustic designer must thoroughly understand the environment he is tackling; he must have training in acoustics, psychology, sociology, music, and a great deal more besides, as the occasion demands” (Schafer, M., The Soundscape and The Tuning of The World, 1974, eBook loc 4199)
Good luck and enjoy.
Tommaso Perego