
MDes Sound for the Moving Image
Haldane Building, 13 students
This programme enables students to explore and develop their creative practice through the medium of sound design and music composition/production for the moving image. The emphasis of the programme rationale is the interplay between creative practices underpinned by theoretical research and mediated through the craft elements of sound production within a visual environment. This practice of sound production is applied to film, animation, television, virtual reality, new media, electronic games and sound art.
Students also engage with the theoretical and historical framework of sound for the moving image thus facilitating the ability to contextualise their own work within this framework.
The programme promotes production of original work, through individual or group-based research, that is conceptually-driven, aesthetically challenging and wide-ranging in its use of sound design and music production/composition.



from Cassette Loops

from Meshes of the Afternoon

from Cassette Loops

from Underwater Spatial Soundscape


from Spatial Flowers

from The Reflexive Sky

from Sound Design for Meshes of the Afternoon


from A Sound Ideology: How Sound Design Enhances Socio-Political Messaging.

from A Sound Ideology: How Sound Design Enhances Socio-Political Messaging.

from A Sound Ideology: How Sound Design Enhances Socio-Political Messaging.


from That Once Resonated There / Invoking the Silence of Where We Aw Come From: A Short Portrait of Laird Lee Kirk

from That Once Resonated There / Invoking the Silence of Where We Aw Come From: A Short Portrait of Laird Lee Kirk


from Hearing The Story: The Forest Awakens

from Hearing The Story: The Forest Awakens


from Music for Picture

from Music for Picture

from Reimagining the Sound of Star Wars

from Music for Picture


from One of Three


from The Flow of Dread

from Rain

from Clyde Built


from Port Glasgow (Clyde Built)

from Sound Design for Mad God

from coll

from Asbestos

from Compositions for Blue Planet


from Sketches in 19 Dimensions

from The Sound of Fun Surrounds You

from Sketches in 19 Dimensions

from Sketches in 19 Dimensions


from “A Fleeting Passage” (2021) | Binaural Audio (headphones required)

from “Błędne Koło” (2020) | Animated Short Film

from “From Stereo to Space: Creative Strategies in Higher Order Ambisonics Recontextualisation of Stereophonic Electronic Music Composition” (2024) | Master’s Project
