Jason Sidney Sanford integrates various forms of visual, sculptural, sonic, performing, and composing arts. He makes sculptural musical instruments, and then uses them to develop unique compositions, which he performs live and records. He also develops interactive sonic situations, frequently collaborating with dancers, or making interactive sound-art installations.
ARTS 4118 - Visiting Artist Program
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Spring 2019
Artists of national and international reputation, interacting with graduate and advanced undergraduate students, discuss their studio work at seminar meetings and at public lectures or events. Provides continuous input of significant developments and a comprehensive view of contemporary issues in the arts. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department enforced prerequisite: portfolio review. Same as ARTS 5118.
ARTS 5118 - Visiting Artist Program
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Spring 2019
Artists of national and international reputation, interacting with graduate and advanced undergraduate students, discuss their studio work at seminar meetings and at public lectures or events. Provides continuous input of significant developments and a comprehensive view of contemporary issues in the arts. Same as ARTS 4118.
CMDP 3600 - Media Practices II
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Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Focus on developing an understanding of the principles, forms and aesthetics of media production. Working in design groups on small-scale media preproduction and production exercises, screenings and critiques, students learn creative solutions to problems in realizing expressive media projects. Formerly CMDP 2600.
CMDP 3840 - Sound Practices
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Spring 2020
This course serves as the gateway to the Sound Practices concentration. Explores the aesthetics of sound through the study of sound art and sound culture. Reading and discussion covers theories technologies, and histories that drive the medium. Students apply concepts by designing and building their own soundscapes, Class will be organized around hands-on activities, lectures, and discussion of readings.
CMDP 3880 - Hearing Image, Seeing Sound
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Spring 2025
Explores how artists, filmmakers, composers, and others have forged connections between sound and image, and how we might learn from them to create our own meaningful creative work. Readings and screenings will dig deep into the geneologies of film sound, and students will create their own imaginative combinations of sound and image throughout the semester.
CMDP 4870 - Sound and Technology
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Fall 2019 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
Exploration of issues, techniques and tools of music and sound technology. Topics vary and may include: interactive systems for performance; music and mobile media; electronic music instrument design; digital synthesis and signal processing; music in multimedia; sound practices and analysis. Lecture during work sessions will support student projects.
CMDP 4900 - Media Practices Capstone
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Spring 2025
This Media Production capstone course explores the application of new media technologies in depth and engages students in an ongoing dialogue about the cultural context of new media technologies and their own work. Students will produce a major media project that synthesizes methods of media making into modes of communication and expression. Students are encouraged to take this course during their final semester.
CMDP 4931 - Internship
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Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2024
