What is The School of Sound?

The School of Sound is a symposium created to encourage a cross-disciplinary approach to using sound in the arts and media. It explores what sound does, how audiences listen.

It is a place where you can raise your awareness of how audio production works, how it conveys information and emotion, how you can work with it.

Sound always seems to be occupying areas of ambiguity – the emotional, the subtext, the intuitive, the borders between reality and fantasy, the conscious and the subconscious. But how do you think about something so ephemeral? And how do you teach it?

For four days, you’ll be immersed in a world of imagination,

invention and innovation. Listening to presentations from a diversity of incredible talents, you will be able to reflect on sound as something that is profoundly complex, entertaining and important.

The School of Sound provides a rare opportunity to hear and meet a stellar line-up of very talented creatives working at the highest levels of the arts and media speaking in detail about how they think and work, including: sound designer Walter Murch, composer Jocelyn Pook, choreographer Siobhan davies, filmmaker John Akomfrah, sound designer Rana Eid, and Foley specialist Nicolas Becker.

Skillset is offerering bursaries to cover the fee through their Diversity fund. Women working in radio, film or TV are eligible. But hurry, it can take some time to process requests. See:  http://www.schoolofsound.co.uk/sos/registration-and-fees for details.

Photo is of Nicolas Becker, the renowned Foley artist (Gravity, Wuthering Heights) who has now turned to more abstract, space-based sound work. He will be describing his techniques and methods at the School of Sound).