Gate 724 – Music and Sound Production for Games

This is an applied method course designed to familiarize students with the language of computer music and sound production. Prerequisite knowledge of music is not necessary. This course aims at presenting the fundamentals of music composition and sound production based on the applied method and theory. Most of the subjects will be practiced by students related to the media and software that lets them feel the aesthetics and artistic side of creation in game design. Students will not only take part in the production as the creators but also the users or testers. Also, artists can be invited to lessons to demonstrate how they do their jobs. The course will aim to let all students feel the aesthetics of sound design, beginning computer music history, fundamentals of music composition for games, sound design, and editing with related hardware and software, aesthetics of using sound and music in games, the relation of sound and visual arts, art of voice-over and dubbing, the place of sound during a game production as teamwork (with examples of “Making of Sound and Music in Games” from the leading companies of the market.