MA Sound Design with Pure Data and more
February 13th, 2010
Here I am, back in Italy for some time. Next week I’ll be teaching the first lesson of a course in Sound Design for sensitive environment at LABA, Brescia Academy of Fine Arts. The course is included in the study program of a Master of Art in New Media and New Technology for Art.
Along with the usual sound design techniques the course includes excursions in soundscape studies and sound art. Students use only free software for audio real-time processing and interactive sonification such as Pure Data graphical programming environment.
The LABA MA also includes courses held by Massimo Banzi (Tinker.it/Arduino), Otolab, Luca Carrubba.
When Davide Anni, department director at LABA, contacted me a while ago, I was positively surprised by his strong wish to bring free software inside the university program. His efforts did not start only recently, in fact the Academy already uses a free-software-based Wi-fi Internet connection, computers running Linux flavour are available to the students and events and workshop about FLOSS world take place on a regular basis, last event AgitMedia included a conference by Richard Stallman, Arduino and Pure Data workshop.
I imagine this is probably nothing new to my international readers, but I can confirm it represents a promising exception to the hyper-conservative rule of today Italian universities, especially in this time while Italy and its culture seems to be falling in an endless black hole.
I am looking forward to start this venture and I hope to publish patches, files and texts along the way, to document this experience… so watch this space.
March 11th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
I would really appreciate more info on this master, I’ve visited the LABA website and already called segreteria but no one tells me the specs about the master courses. Hope you can give a hand. Thx.
March 11th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Hi Rocio, thanks for reading and contacting me.
I’m sorry you couldn’t get further info, the Master Course just started this year (2009/2010), thus the segreteria probably needs to be properly updated. Anyway a website of the MA course is in development.
Sure I’ll be glad to help you. I just spoke about your comment to one of the administrator of the MA, I will send you right now her e-mail contact at the Academy and she will give you all the info you need.
thanks again for your interest,
best,
M