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 “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

from “Meshes of the Afternoon” (2021) | Re-scored

from Sound Design for Mad God

from Compositions for Blue Planet

from Asbestos

from coll

from Port Glasgow (Clyde Built)

from Reimagining the Sound of Star Wars

from Music for Picture

from Music for Picture

from Music for Picture

from Sound Design for Meshes of the Afternoon

from The Reflexive Sky

from Spatial Flowers

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 The Sound of Fun Surrounds You

from Sketches in 19 Dimensions

from Sketches in 19 Dimensions

from Sketches in 19 Dimensions

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 Cassette Loops

from Cassette Loops

from Cassette Loops

from Chiaroscuro (Sound Redesign)

from Why Has It Taken So Long?