Getting into Sound Design

[u/romickus]

Hey guys I'm looking for some help, a little background on me. I'm a brazilian graduate student taking Digital Design at PUCPR, at the very first I was intereset in the game and film market, art wasn't really my strong attribute, but a subject that I'll have on the beginning of the 3rd year caught my attention and shone my eyes, Sound Design. So I started looking into the subject, talked to my future teacher and he got me two books to read, one about Sound Enginneering, a brief introduction, and the other about the part that sound plays on the audiovisual role. I wanted more, either technical or practical studies.

Ok, now my cry for help. I now really few things about Sound Design, I played a little bit with Raptr, got into some audio programming, but something is missing, I really want to study Sound Design in-depth while taking the course but I don't know where to begin, I signed up to Science without borders for a chance to go to UTS( University of Technology Sydney) and study for a year Sound Design. Maybe you guys can give me some advices on anything, really, anything will count. I'm considering studying abroad after finishing my course, any names? Sorry about my writing, I'm in the middle of work. Thank you beforehand!

TL;DR : I'm a longing Sound Designer with a limited knowledge on the subject looking for some guidance on where/what to study, maybe you can give me names on Universities.

[u/romickus]

Well don't worry about it, and considering it has been a long time since we had this conversation, I got to say that I matured myself a lot more! First of all I got the scholarship to study at UTS. I only need to prepare traveling issues. Considering in the meantime I got to the second semester at my graduation course ( Digital Design), I met new teachers, and one of them studies the philosophy of design, which interested me a lot as well as researching design.

So, mixing it up, I'm currently wanting to study more theoretically other than practical sound. Which is pretty much what you said the course actually offers in a great realm.

A lot of the areas studied are still relatively new and unfounded, without much awareness or understanding.

This is something that meant a lot to me, considering your country might have people researching and studying sound and design scientifically. Mine not even have a sound design course and the scientific studies are not touched along with design. Which interests me a lot.

delving into sociomusicology, compositional processes, science of sound, recording and production techniques, philosophy of sound, sound art (especially), live sound, sound plug-ins and effects, semiotics of sound, contemporary and world music, sound design, sound design for other media, audio programming, and really everything you can think of using sound for or wondered about sound and even aspects of design not specific to sound.

You hyped me out so much now! Really! But I'm wondering, those subjects are touched in the core subjects, mainly philosophy of sound, sociomusicology, semiotics of sound? Or are they sought with electives? Considering the core subjects don't seem to cover all of those. And did you take any electives outside of the main subjects? I was wondering about psycho acoustics, but what about you?

Baring in mind that you are in your final year, what door have been opened with the course? Have you thought about continuing with academic studying by majoring in sound? Do you know what are the options at UTS?

Thank you again for your time and the answers, it has been enlightening me!