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Innovating the Design Process: A Theatre Design Journey

Innovating the Design Process: A Theatre Design Journey explores the process of designing for theatre and details how each part of a designer’s own process no matter what their design specialization can be innovated and adapted for a more confident journey and for better outcomes. The book observes and deconstructs the processes used by theatre designers uncovers and explains the structure and concepts behind those processes and shows how they can be easily reassembled for better results and to meet different situations. It uses innovative real-world practical examples from all the fields of theatre design taken from shows throughout the author’s career. The processes covered in this book are split into two sections – design development and design implementation – with an additional chapter covering design presentations. Written in an engaging and informative style this text opens up a designer’s ability to innovate within the design process to optimize reproducibility resilience personal fit confidence collaboration and audience engagement. Innovating the Design Process is a next level book for both MFA theatre design students and early career professionals who wish to develop their craft further. Seasoned professionals will also find within its pages concepts to reinvigorate their own design process. The book includes access to an online guide to using Microsoft Word for Mac to mirror content in two separate documents.

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Doing Research in Sound Design

Doing Research in Sound Design gathers chapters on the wide range of research methodologies used in sound design. Editor Michael Filimowicz and a diverse group of contributors provide an overview of cross-disciplinary inquiry into sound design that transcends discursive and practical divides. The book covers Qualitative Quantitative and Mixed Methods inquiry. For those new to sound design research each chapter covers specific research methods that can be utilized directly in order to begin to integrate the methodology into their practice. More experienced researchers will find the scope of topics comprehensive and rich in ideas for new lines of inquiry. Students and teachers in sound design graduate programs industry-based R&D experts and audio professionals will find the volume to be a useful guide in developing their skills of inquiry into sound design for any particular application area.

GBP 46.99

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Small Signal Audio Design

Small Signal Audio Design is a highly practical handbook providing an extensive repertoire of circuits that can be assembled to make almost any type of audio system. This fully revised fourth edition offers wholly new content on internally balanced audio design electret microphones emitter-follower stability microphony in capacitors and much much more. This book continues the engaging prose style familiar to readers as you learn why mercury-filled cables are not a good idea the pitfalls of plating gold on copper and what quotes from Star Trek have to do with PCB design. Learn how to: make amplifiers with apparently impossibly low noise design discrete circuitry that can handle enormous signals with vanishingly low distortion transform the performance of low-cost opamps build active filters with very low noise and distortion while saving money on expensive capacitors make incredibly accurate volume controls make a huge variety of audio equalisers use load synthesis to make magnetic cartridge preamplifiers that have noise so low it is limited by basic physics sum switch clip compress and route audio signals build simple but ultra-low noise power supplies be confident that phase perception is not an issue Including all the crucial theories but with minimal mathematics Small Signal Audio Design is the must-have companion for anyone studying researching or working in audio engineering and audio electronics.

GBP 74.99

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Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design Sound Design and Audio Implementation for Interactive and Immersive Media

Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design is a comprehensive introduction to the art of sound for games and interactive media using Unity. This accessible guide encompasses both the conceptual challenges of the artform as well as the technical and creative aspects such as sound design spatial audio scripting implementation and mixing. Beginning with basic techniques including linear and interactive sound design before moving on to advanced techniques such as procedural audio Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design is supplemented by a host of digital resources including a library of ready-to-use adaptable scripts. This thorough introduction provides the reader with the skills and tools to combat the potential challenges of game audio independently. Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design is the perfect primer for beginner- to intermediate-level readers with a basic understanding of audio production and Unity who want to learn how to gain a foothold in the exciting world of game and interactive audio. | Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design Sound Design and Audio Implementation for Interactive and Immersive Media

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Small Signal Audio Design

Small Signal Audio Design is a highly practical handbook providing an extensive repertoire of circuits that can be assembled to make almost any type of audio system. The publication of Electronics for Vinyl has freed up space for new material (though this book still contains a lot on moving-magnet and moving-coil electronics) and this fully revised third edition offers wholly new chapters on tape machines guitar electronics and variable-gain amplifiers plus much more. A major theme is the use of inexpensive and readily available parts to obtain state-of-the-art performance for noise distortion crosstalk frequency response accuracy and other parameters. Virtually every page reveals nuggets of specialized knowledge not found anywhere else. For example you can improve the offness of a fader simply by adding a resistor in the right place- if you know the right place. Essential points of theory that bear on practical audio performance are lucidly and thoroughly explained with the mathematics kept to an absolute minimum. Self’s background in design for manufacture ensures he keeps a wary eye on the cost of things. This book features the engaging prose style familiar to readers of his other books. You will learn why mercury-filled cables are not a good idea the pitfalls of plating gold on copper and what quotes from Star Trek have to do with PCB design. Learn how to: make amplifiers with apparently impossibly low noise design discrete circuitry that can handle enormous signals with vanishingly low distortion use humble low-gain transistors to make an amplifier with an input impedance of more than 50 megohms transform the performance of low-cost-opamps build active filters with very low noise and distortion make incredibly accurate volume controls make a huge variety of audio equalisers make magnetic cartridge preamplifiers that have noise so low it is limited by basic physics by using load synthesis sum switch clip compress and route audio signals be confident that phase perception is not an issue This expanded and updated third edition contains extensive new material on optimising RIAA equalisation electronics for ribbon microphones summation of noise sources defining system frequency response loudness controls and much more. Including all the crucial theory but with minimal mathematics Small Signal Audio Design is the must-have companion for anyone studying researching or working in audio engineering and audio electronics.

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Multimedia Foundations Core Concepts for Digital Design

Whether you are working using text graphics photography sound motion or video Multimedia Foundations covers the skills necessary to be an effective modern storyteller. Presented in full color with hundreds of vibrant illustrations this book trains readers in the principles and skills common to all forms of digital media production enabling the creation of successful engaging content no matter what tools are used. Chapters feature useful exercises to cement core concepts and help readers develop planning collaboration design and production skills. This third edition has been fully updated and includes new and revised illustrations updated coverage of digital asset management and media workflows a completely rewritten chapter on coding for web and mobile media and new sections on design thinking inclusive design color theory photography composition interview and B-roll acquisition techniques and editing stages and postproduction workflows. Multimedia Foundations is a comprehensive resource for students in fields such as journalism film production animation and game design web and graphic design and other areas where modern media is produced. A website with Instructor and Student Resources for this book includes a glossary of terms chapter PowerPoints and sample text banks. | Multimedia Foundations Core Concepts for Digital Design

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Dance and Light The Partnership Between Choreography and Lighting Design

Dance and Light examines the interconnected relationship between movement and design the fluid partnership that exists between the two disciplines and the approaches that designers can take to enhance dance performances through lighting design. The book demystifies lighting for the dancer and helps designers understand how the dancer/choreographer thinks about their art form providing insight into the choreographer’s process and exploring how designers can make the most of their resources. The author shares anecdotes and ideas from an almost 50-year career as a lighting designer along with practical examples and insights from colleagues and stresses the importance of clear communication between designers choreographers and dancers. Attention is also given to the choreographer who wants to learn what light can do to help enhance their work on stage. Written in short stand-alone chapters that allow readers to quickly navigate to areas of interest Dance and Light is a valuable resource for lighting design classes wishing to add a section on dance lighting as well as for choreography classes who want to better equip young artists for a significant collaborative partnership. | Dance and Light The Partnership Between Choreography and Lighting Design

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Bringing Set and Costume Designs to Fruition Made by Teams

Bringing Set and Costume Designs to Fruition: Made by Teams dives into the collaborative working relationships between set and costume designers with their technical counterparts throughout the theatrical production process from concept to execution. Set and costume designers render environments and characters for a wide array of performative events; skilled artisans and technologists bring these visions to life. This book explores the dynamic between those who decide what the set and costumes should look like and those who make them work including scene designers costume designers scene shops and costume shops. The book discusses how to identify resources ask the right questions and engage in healthy collaborations. Following these fundamentals are practical activities and interviews with industry professionals that demonstrate how these skills can be applied to a broad range of productions and other avenues for creative design and production. Bringing Set and Costume Designs to Fruition is written for emerging professionals in set and costume design as well as students in courses across a theatre degree program including stagecraft costume construction scene design and introduction to theatrical design and production. | Bringing Set and Costume Designs to Fruition Made by Teams

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Contemporary Dance Lighting The Poetry and the Nitty-Gritty

Contemporary Dance Lighting: The Poetry and the Nitty-Gritty dynamically guides students toward aesthetically creatively and skillfully becoming lighting designers for dance in the 21st century. The book is organized in three parts covering everything from the aesthetic considerations of lighting for dance to the tools and technology designers use to create compelling artistry. Part I Beginnings establishes context explaining the structure of the book and illuminating the history of contemporary dance and lighting. Part II The Poetry elaborates on the key artistic and aesthetic elements of contemporary dance lighting: visual narrative; controllable functions and qualities of light; use of space color and time; importance and intricacies of collaboration; and continual effects and evolution of technology. Part III The Nitty-Gritty steers students through the technical knowledge and skills necessary to design lighting including understanding your tools and positioning instruments; creating layered light plots; organizing extensive paperwork; and archiving. The dance Artifice choreographed by Jerry Pearson is sequentially explored throughout the book to convey key concepts. Further Reflections conclude each chapter written by a diverse group of renowned professionals inviting young designers directly into the world of lighting design. This textbook is for use in Lighting Design and Design for Dance Lighting courses at the university level along with professional training programs. | Contemporary Dance Lighting The Poetry and the Nitty-Gritty

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Sound for Moving Pictures The Four Sound Areas

Sound for Moving Pictures presents a new and original sound design theory called the Four Sound Areas framework offering a conceptual template for constructing deconstructing and communicating all types of motion picture soundtracks; and a way for academics and practitioners to better understand and utilize the deeper emotive capabilities available to all filmmakers through the thoughtful use of sound design. The Four Sound Areas framework presents a novel approach to sound design that enables the reader to more fully appreciate audience emotions and audience engagement and provides a flexible practical model that will allow professionals to more easily create and communicate soundtracks with greater emotional significance and meaning. Of obvious benefit to sound specialists as well as motion picture professionals such as film producers directors and picture editors Sound for Moving Pictures also provides valuable insight for others interested in the subject; such as those involved with teaching soundtrack analysis or those researching the wider topics of film studies and screen writing. Supplementary materials can be found on the companion website: www. soundformovingpictures. com | Sound for Moving Pictures The Four Sound Areas

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Game Audio Fundamentals An Introduction to the Theory Planning and Practice of Soundscape Creation for Games

Game Audio Fundamentals takes the reader on a journey through game audio design: from analog and digital audio basics to the art and execution of sound effects soundtracks and voice production as well as learning how to make sense of a truly effective soundscape. Presuming no pre-existing knowledge this accessible guide is accompanied by online resources – including practical examples and incremental DAW exercises – and presents the theory and practice of game audio in detail and in a format anyone can understand. This is essential reading for any aspiring game audio designer as well as students and professionals from a range of backgrounds including music audio engineering and game design. | Game Audio Fundamentals An Introduction to the Theory Planning and Practice of Soundscape Creation for Games

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Sound Reinforcement for Audio Engineers

Sound Reinforcement for Audio Engineers illustrates the current state of the art in sound reinforcement. Beginning with an outline of various fields of applications from sports venues to religious venues corporate environments and cinemas this book is split into 11 chapters covering room acoustics loudspeakers microphones and acoustic modelling among many other topics. This comprehensive book packed with references and a historical overview of sound reinforcement design is an essential reference book for students of acoustics and electrical engineering but also for engineers looking to expand their knowledge of designing sound reinforcement systems.

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The Creative Electronic Music Producer

The Creative Electronic Music Producer examines the creative processes of electronic music production from idea discovery and perception to the power of improvising editing effects processing and sound design. Featuring case studies from across the globe on musical systems and workflows used in the production process this book highlights how to pursue creative breakthroughs through exploration trial and error tinkering recombination and transformation. The Creative Electronic Music Producer maps production's enchanting pathways in a way that will fascinate and inspire students of electronic music production professionals already working in the industry and hobbyists.

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Mastering in Music

Mastering in Music is a cutting-edge edited collection that offers twenty perspectives on the contexts and process of mastering. This book collects the perspectives of both academics and professionals to discuss recent developments in the field such as mastering for VR and high resolution mastering alongside crucial perspectives on fundamental skills such as the business of mastering equipment design and audio processing. Including a range of detailed case studies and interviews Mastering in Music offers a comprehensive overview of the foremost hot topics affecting the industry making it key reading for students and professionals engaged in music production.

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The Game Audio Strategy Guide A Practical Course

The Game Audio Strategy Guide is a comprehensive text designed to turn both novices and experienced audio designers into technical game audio pros. Providing both a theoretical foundation and practical insights The Game Audio Strategy Guide offers a thorough look at the tools and methods needed to create industry-quality music and sound design for games. The text is supported by an extensive companion website featuring numerous practical tutorials and exercises which allows the reader to gain hands-on experience creating and implementing audio assets for games. The Game Audio Strategy Guide is the essential manual for anyone interested in creating audio for games inside or outside the classroom. | The Game Audio Strategy Guide A Practical Course

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Performing Electronic Music Live

Performing Electronic Music Live lays out conceptual approaches tools and techniques for electronic music performance from DJing DAWs MIDI controllers traditional instruments live sound design hardware setups custom software and hardware to live visuals venue acoustics and live show promotion. Through case studies and contrasting tutorials by successful artists Kirsten Hermes explores the many different ways in which you can create memorable experiences on stage. Featuring interviews with highly accomplished musicians and practitioners readers can also expand on their knowledge with hands-on video tutorials for each chapter via the companion website performingelectronicmusic. live. Performing Electronic Music Live is an essential all-encompassing resource for professionals students of music production courses and researchers in the field of creative-focused performance technology.

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The Body in Sound Music and Performance Studies in Audio and Sonic Arts

The Body in Sound Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book features a host of international contributors and places emphasis on developments beyond the western world including movements growing across Latin America. Within the book the body is situated as both the site and centre for knowledge making and creative production. Chapters explore how insightful theoretical analysis new methods innovative practises and sometimes within the socio-cultural conditions of racism sexism and classicism the body can rise above reshape and deconstruct understood ideas about performance practices composition and listening/sensing. This book will be of interest to both practitioners and researchers in the fields of sonic arts sound design music acoustics and performance. | The Body in Sound Music and Performance Studies in Audio and Sonic Arts

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Women in Audio

Women in Audio features almost 100 profiles and stories of audio engineers who are women and have achieved success throughout the history of the trade. Beginning with a historical view the book covers the achievements of women in various audio professions and then focuses on organizations that support and train women and girls in the industry. What follows are eight chapters divided by discipline highlighting accomplished women in various audio fields: radio; sound for film and television; music recording and electronic music; hardware and software design; acoustics; live sound and sound for theater; education; audio for games virtual reality augmented reality and mixed reality as well as immersive sound. Women in Audio is a valuable resource for professionals educators and students looking to gain insight into the careers of trailblazing women in audio-related fields and represents required reading for those looking to add diversity to their music technology programs.

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Sound Inventions Selected Articles from Experimental Musical Instruments

Sound Inventions is a collection of 34 articles taken from Experimental Musical Instruments the seminal journal published from 1984 through 1999. In addition to the selected articles the editors have contributed introductory essays placing the material in cultural and temporal context providing an overview of the field both before and after the time of original publication. The Experimental Musical Instruments journal contributed extensively to a number of sub-fields including sound sculpture and sound art sound design tuning theory musical instrument acoustics timbre and timbral perception musical instrument construction and materials pedagogy and contemporary performance and composition. This book provides a picture of this important early period presenting a wealth of material that is as valuable and relevant today as it was when first published making it essential reading for anyone researching working with or studying sound. | Sound Inventions Selected Articles from Experimental Musical Instruments

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Sound and Image Aesthetics and Practices

Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices brings together international artist scholars to explore diverse sound and image practices applying critical perspectives to interrogate and evaluate both the aesthetics and practices that underpin the audiovisual. Contributions draw upon established discourses in electroacoustic music media art history film studies critical theory and dance; framing and critiquing these arguments within the context of diverse audiovisual practices. The volume’s interdisciplinary perspective contributes to the rich and evolving dialogue surrounding the audiovisual demonstrating the value and significance of practice-informed theory and theory derived from practice. The ideas and approaches explored within this book will find application in a wide range of contexts across the whole scope of audiovisuality from visual music and experimental film to narrative film and documentary to live performance sound design and into sonic art and electroacoustic music. This book is ideal for artists composers and researchers investigating theoretical positions and compositional practices which bring together sound and image. | Sound and Image Aesthetics and Practices

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18th Century Male Tailoring Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c1680 – 1790

18th Century Male Tailoring: Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c1680–1790 introduces the reader to English eighteenth century tailoring and covers the drafting of patterns cutting out in cloth and construction techniques in sequence for the tailoring of waistcoats breeches and coats. From choosing the right cloth to preparing for the fitting process this how-to guide will help readers create beautiful historically accurate eighteenth century male garments for events and performances. The book contains the following: step-by-step instructions complete with illustrations for students and costumiers who are new to the making of male tailored garments from the eighteenth century; drafting blocks and construction techniques for the different styles through the eighteenth century and patterns photographs detailed measurements and articles taken from a variety of male coats waistcoats and trousers from c1680 –c1790 from museums and collections. 18th Century Male Tailoring is written for costume design and construction students fashion students and practitioners who have a reasonable working knowledge of sewing and general costume making but not necessarily of tailoring drafting patterns cutting skills and the making of male garments. | 18th Century Male Tailoring Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c1680 – 1790

GBP 52.99

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New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles Re-Fashioning Pedagogies

New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles: Re-Fashioning Pedagogies offers a wide array of inclusive global practical approaches for teaching costume and fashion history. Costume designers technicians and historians have spent the last several years re-evaluating how they teach costume and fashion history acknowledging the need to refocus the discourse to include a more global perspective. This book is a collection of pedagogical methods aimed to do just that with an emphasis on easy reference accessible activities and rubrics and containing a variety of ways to restructure the course. Each chapter offers a course description syllabus calendar course objectives and learning outcomes as well as sample activities from instructors across the country who have made major changes to their coursework. Using a combination of personal narratives examples from their work bibliographies of helpful texts and student responses contributors suggest a variety of ways to decolonize the traditionally Western-focused fashion history syllabus. This collection of pedagogical approaches is intended to support and inspire instructors teaching costume design costume history fashion history period styles and other aesthetic histories in the arts. | New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles Re-Fashioning Pedagogies

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Stagecraft Fundamentals A Guide and Reference for Theatrical Production

Stagecraft Fundamentals Fourth Edition is an entry-level how-to guide and reference on backstage theatre covering every aspect of basic theatre production. The history of stagecraft safety precautions lighting costumes scenery special effects career planning tips and more are discussed illustrated by beautiful full-color images that display step-by-step procedures. This fourth edition improves upon the last featuring a new chapter on Costume Crafts which includes information on millinery shoes fabric dyeing fabric modification distressing masks armor body padding and accessories. Also included is an expanded discussion on sound props rigging safety production management and projection design new information on digital theatre new end of chapter exercises additional information on US/UK standards and an emphasis on diversity and inclusion. Each chapter features exercises discussion questions and study words to help the teacher and student review the content before moving on to the next topic. Stagecraft Fundamentals Fourth Edition is the must-have introductory theatre production book for Stagecraft Technical Theatre and Theatre Production courses. A companion website (www. StagecraftFundamentals. com) features additional articles and information downloadable images and paperwork chapter quizzes and an instructor’s manual. | Stagecraft Fundamentals A Guide and Reference for Theatrical Production

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Audio Metering Measurements Standards and Practice

In this comprehensive guide Brixen takes the reader through the complex and confusing aspects of audio metering imparting the knowledge and skills needed to utilize optional signal levels and produce high-quality audio. Covering all aspects of this fundamental subject Audio Metering: Measurements Standards and Practice begins with the basics such as audio definitions and digital techniques and works up to more complex topics like hearing and psychoacoustics. This revised and expanded third edition includes: Updated information on loudness metering covering both existing and new standards. Definitions of terms such as LKFS LUFS gating LRA. Explanations of signal types and musical sounds and structures. Further details on immersive audio. Skills needed for both small-room acoustics and large auditorium sound design without loss of sound quality. Descriptions of measurement signals and systems for audio and acoustic sound. A chapter on listening tests from small set-ups to large-scale comparisons of PA/SR-systems. Packed full of valuable information with a wide range of practical applications this is the essential reference guide to audio metering for technicians engineers and tonmeisters as well as sound designers working with acoustics electroacoustics broadcast studio recording sound art archiving audio forensics and theatrical and live-audio setups. | Audio Metering Measurements Standards and Practice

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Soundwalking Through Time Space and Technologies

Soundwalking brings together a diverse group of contemporary scholars artists and thinkers in one of the first comprehensive studies of soundwalking – the practice of moving through space while carefully listening to what it has to say – to address urgent challenges and concerns of an environmental ethical social and technological nature. Besides gaining insight into the historical development of soundwalking as a scholarly method and artistic genre the reader will have a chance to learn from emerging voices concerned with this practice of many different backgrounds and positionalities. Soundwalking demonstrates how attentive listening and walking might help with more careful and responsible navigation through the complex dimensions of our shared environments and entangled histories often imperceptible on a day-to-day basis. The book encourages scholars artists and also those unfamiliar with the concept to engage with it in their respective fields and subjects of interest as an interdisciplinary method of critical inquiry and a creative mode of communication. This book inspires readers to discover anew the potential of walking and listening and will be of interest to students researchers and practitioners in the areas of studies directly concerned with sound and beyond including environmental humanities arts design landscape architecture media and cultural studies. Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Soundwalking Through Time Space and Technologies

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Innovating the Design Process: A Theatre Design Journey

Doing Research in Sound Design

Small Signal Audio Design

Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design Sound Design and Audio Implementation for Interactive and Immersive Media

Small Signal Audio Design

Multimedia Foundations Core Concepts for Digital Design

Dance and Light The Partnership Between Choreography and Lighting Design

Bringing Set and Costume Designs to Fruition Made by Teams

Contemporary Dance Lighting The Poetry and the Nitty-Gritty

Sound for Moving Pictures The Four Sound Areas

Game Audio Fundamentals An Introduction to the Theory Planning and Practice of Soundscape Creation for Games

Sound Reinforcement for Audio Engineers

The Creative Electronic Music Producer

Mastering in Music

The Game Audio Strategy Guide A Practical Course

Performing Electronic Music Live

The Body in Sound Music and Performance Studies in Audio and Sonic Arts

Women in Audio

Sound Inventions Selected Articles from Experimental Musical Instruments

Sound and Image Aesthetics and Practices

18th Century Male Tailoring Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c1680 – 1790

New Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles Re-Fashioning Pedagogies

Stagecraft Fundamentals A Guide and Reference for Theatrical Production

Audio Metering Measurements Standards and Practice

Soundwalking Through Time Space and Technologies

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