EMERY MARC PETCHAUER
LearninG DESIGNS

SOUNDWRITING WORKSHOP  




This course is about writing that is multimodal and based in aurality, or sound writing. Sound writing is an action and object created by drafting, revising, and delivering compositions in the aural mode (Faris et al., 2022). Class will focus less on visual and printed text and more on compositions that you hear and feel. In terms of academic fields, the course draws from rhetoric, writing studies, sound studies, and the aural humanities.  

There will be technical learning in a digital audio workstation; conceptual learning about multimodal, sensory, and sound  writing; and applications putting all of this into practice through playing, tinkering, and composing. 

Despite this technical side, it’s important to keep in mind why all of this matters. Here is one answer: humans across time have used their full sensory, modal, and technological capabilities to express themselves with dignity and power, and to help create the world they wish to experience. With sound, this includes not only music with lyrics but future-facing creations like Jamaican dub and Detroit techno. So this class works to develop your full sensory and modal capacities as a communicator/writer, especially through sound. 


Course objectives:

  • Understand and apply foundational concepts in sound writing. 
  • Develop technical skills in sound writing (editing, layering, importing, generating audio effects, etc.).
  • Expand comfort and efficacy in learning new digital platforms. 
  • Understand and apply ideas about multimodality and aurality to composition. 
  • Compose work that elicits desired sensory effects and affects for audiences. 



Graduate Workshop
Teachers College, Columbia University
2024

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