Postgraduate study in spatial sound – SIAL Sound Studios, RMIT UniversitySIAL
Sound Studios, RMIT University are accepting applications for postgraduate
research by project as part of two research streams; spatial composition and
performance and urban soundscape design and research. Applications are now
being accepted for fee-paying postgraduates to commence in 2009.Critical
dates;Enquirries until 22 Dec 2008Applications due 23 Jan 2009Notification 30
Jan 2009Enrollment by 30 March 2009The SIAL Studios are based in RMIT
University’s Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, which is part of the
School of Architecture and Design. SIAL is a facility for innovation in
transdisciplinary design research and education. It embraces a broad range of
investigative modes, involving both highly speculative and industry linked
projects. SIAL is concerned with the integration of technical, theoretical and
social concerns as part of its innovation agenda. High-end computing, modeling
and communication tools associated with disparate disciplines are combined with
traditional production techniques. Researchers are engaged in a wide variety of
projects that collaboratively disturb artificial distinctions between the
physical and virtual, digital and analogue, scientific and artistic,
instrumental and philosophical. While relevant research involves an extensive
breadth of technological developments in areas such as Multimedia, Soundscape
Systems, Mechatronics, Computer Graphics and Interfaces, Materials technology,
Manufacturing processes, Collaborative Virtual Environments, Animation,
Computer Games, Virtual Reality Facilities, GIS and on-line environments, SIAL
does not focus on any of these systems or realms of technology per se. Rather,
it interrogates the relationships these areas foster for cross-disciplinary
production. Application requirementsApplicants will have undergraduate or
Masters qualifications in music composition or performance, electroacoustic
music, sound design or other design disciplines.Applicants should first send a
draft research topic – 1 x A4 page.Details of application process are available
here;http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=nxqw9kmc6lzgFees for Masters or PhD are
AUD18,720 per year.The research environmentThe research environment of the SIAL
Sound Studios is open to postgraduates from design, architecture, music and
sound backgrounds. Applicants must have intermediate to advanced skills in
studio production to realize their projects. Researchers within the Studios are
internationally recognized for their contributions to sound design,
electroacoustic performance practice, acoustic ecology and design research.
Post-graduate supervision is activated through weekly meetings, industry
projects, local and commonwealth funded research, the Studio's seminar series,
and the Graduate Research Conference. The research environment is primarily
articulated through practice-based research. Opportunities for postgraduates to
realise projects in the public domain are being developed, including access to
Melbourne’s large-scale urban soundscape systems, smaller university soundscape
systems, and spatial performances using the Studio’s 32-channel sound diffusion
system.The Postgraduates will contribute to the larger projects through
discrete projects of their own research. Design projects should address, but
not be limited to:-spatialized performance/electroacoustic performance
practize-Urban soundscape designs for multi-channel systems-Evaluating urban
soundscape designs and urban soundscape planning models-Software projects for
spatialized performance, installations or gesture control-Analysis of
contemporary spatial compositions and installation practice-integrating 3D
design softwares within spatial sound designContact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: www.sial.rmit.edu.au
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