Course Details - 'The Science of Sound'

Duration - Ideally the course spans 6 weeks at one and a half hours per week. However this can be altered to suit the timetabling of individual schools.

Class Size - At present the maximum number of students we can accommodate on the course is 10.

Hardware Requirements - The course is fully portable and doesn’t require the installation of any software onto a school’s computer network. All that is required is the use of a computer cluster with machines that have soundcards installed and a spare USB socket for the pen drives from which the software runs. We are yet to find a school which has computer’s not meeting these minimal requirements.

Staffing Requirements - It is required that a member of staff be present for the sessions.

Course content -

Week 1 and 2

*An experimental demonstration using a hardware synthersiser, slinky spring and drum skin is used to explain the academic concepts covered.

Week 3

* Electromagnetic induction is demonstrated experimentally, this leads to the conclusion that a speaker and microphone are essentially mechanically identical. The pupils prove this by using their headphones to record their voice into the sequencer.

Week 4 and 5

* The academic content covers the key theory that digital signals are more resilient to noise than their analogue equivalent.

Week 6

*The pupil’s tracks are mixed to CD so they can take a copy away with them.

To book the course for your organisation please email - Info@futuresoundstudios.co.uk