MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN STUDIO

SOUND

Application Deadline: January 10

For application requirements, visit saic.edu/sound

saic.edu/sound

Graduate Admissions36 South Wabash Avenue, suite 1201Chicago, IL 60603Phone 312.629.6100 / 800.232.7242 Fax 312.629.6101 gradmiss@saic.edu

One of the few programs in the country that considers sound outside a strictly musical context, SAIC’s MFA in Sound program pushes students to extend and explore the medium, considering its experimental, aesthetic, critical, and conceptual dimensions. The Sound department’s interdisciplinary approach to making sound includes analog and digital studio-based audio craft, computer programming, performance (improvisation and repertoire), sound installation, hardware design, text-based sound work, songwriting, and radio.The nature of work produced through the program is entirely dependent upon a student’s own processes, interests, and obsessions.

Sound students routinely invent new tools and processes—building hardware and programming software to generate music and sound art, and designing and building acoustic and electronic instruments.

Our world-renowned faculty include audio artists, performance artists, composers, instrument builders, improvisers, and authors, who provide a distinctive curricular mix of music and sound art, analog and digital technologies, recording studio technique and live performance.

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DEPARTMENTAL HIGHLIGHTS � Professor Nicolas Collins performed in the southernmost arts festival in the

world, in Punta Arenas, Chile.

� In spring 2013, Professor Shawn Decker’s sculptural sound installation “Prairie” exhibited at the Chicago Cultural Center, and has been touring internationally since.

� Adjunct Associate Professor Eric Leonardson was a Copeland Fellow living at Amherst College in 2013. He also co-edited Ways of Listening, Figures of Thought: A Festschrift for R. Murray Schafer On the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, which collects statements from 25 internationally esteemed authors, composers, and researchers as a tribute to the famous Canadian composer and founder of acoustic ecology.

� Assistant Professor and Graduate Coordinator Lou Mallozzi presented two new sound performances Decades (for MM) and Talk to the wall at The Arts Club, Chicago in April 2016. He was also interviewed and gave a performance on Radio France, Paris, in May 2016. He performed La patria partorisce padri partiti for voice and microphone and presented the paper An Architectonics of Public Speech at the conference Transitions des artes, transition esthétique, St-Denis, France, in March 2015. His multi-channel text/sound installation Trois espaces deux temps was presented at BIG Festival, Geneva, Switzerland in June 2015.

� The Sound Department hosts a regular series of lectures, critiques and residencies by Visiting Artists specifically designed to engage graduate students in a substantive critical discourse about their work. These have included David Behrman, Anri Sala, David Grubbs, Pamela Z, Jaap Blonk, Charlotte Hug, Jenny C. Jones, Samson Young, Rodrigo Sigal, Annette Krebs, John Butcher, Thomas Ankersmit, Mats Lindstrom, Elliott Sharp, Charlemagne Palestine, Olivia Block and many others.

� The department solicited and accepted the donation of a Yamaha Disklavier computer-controlled acoustic piano from a private donor and built a new small studio to house it.

FULL-TIME FACULTYNICOLAS COLLINS

SHAWN DECKER

LOU MALLOZZI

CREDIT HOUR SUMMARY

Studio - MFA 6009 Graduate Projects, Seminars and/or a maximum of 12 credits of 3000-level and above studios

39

Art History - ARTHI 5002 Graduate Survey of Modern and Contemporary Art

3

Art History Electives at the 4000 level or above

9

Electives - Any course in any area at 3000 level or above

9

Participation in four graduate critiques

Participation in the graduate exhibition or equivalent

Total Credit Hours 60

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For complete faculty listing visit: saic.edu/sound

FACILITIES Five sound studios and four work stations, each equipped with:

� High-quality analog and digital mixers

� Pro Tools digital editing systems

� Vintage MIDI synthesizers and samplers

� Vintage and contemporary analog synthesizers and signal processors

� Several rare signal processors

� A variety of outboard processing gear

� Studio microphones

� Performance controllers

� MAX/MSP

� SuperCollider

� IRCAM Tools

� Purpose built labs for software and hardware design and development, and instrument construction

� Several workstations for graduate student use, including a small studio with a Yamaha Disklavier computer-controlled acoustic piano

� An inventory of portable equipment, including systems for high-quality digital recording on location

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