Sound Practice Royal College of Art

Overview

You investigate how listening and sound-making can transform creative practice and open up new social and political possibilities, working across disciplines and cultures. Through approaches including aural diversity, polisonics, forensic, insurgent and deep listening, you experiment with techniques and tools such as 3D sound, ultrasonics, hydrosonics, instrument building, audio description, live-coding, machine listening, synthesis and broadcast. You might create experimental audio documentaries, sound installations, immersive soundscapes or new approaches to accessible instrument building, while engaging with communities, spaces and environments. Through listening lectures, workshops, seminars, tutorials and collaborative projects, you develop an expanded and critical approach to sound practice. The Sound MA at the RCA is subject to validation.

Key facts:

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The Royal College of Art is the world’s leading postgraduate art and design university, providing students with unrivalled opportunities to develop their practice, build their networks, enhance their career and to deliver art and design projects that transform the world.

For 12 consecutive years, the RCA has been ranked as the world’s number 1 art & design university in the QS World University subject rankings (2015-2026) - attracting artists, designers and communicators from across the globe.