Course content

The course provides basic introduction to acoustic waves, transformers, and techniques for audio recording and audio reproduction, moreover methods for calculation of audio behaviour in rooms, with a special focus on practical consequences for music performance.

Learning outcome

The course should provide basic insight in acoustic communication and sound systems, with special focus on practical possibilities and limitations for music performance and audio recording.

Knowledge:
To get a basic understanding of:
- Sound fields in rooms
- Electroacoustical transducers: loudspeakers and microphones
- Measurement techniques in room acoustics and electroacoustics
- Hearing and the perception of sound in rooms
- Audio formats: stereo and multichannel sound
- The sound generation and sound radiation mechanisms in musical instruments

Skills:
To be able to:
- Predict, measure, and analyze sound fields in rooms
- Analyze electroacoustical tranducers and perform basic loudspeaker measurements
- Analyze how a sound field in a room will be perceived by a listener

Learning methods and activities

Lectures: 2 hours per week for 12 weeks. Exercises.

Compulsory assignments

• Exercises

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

Requires admission to the Master's programme in Music Technology.

Credit reductions