BA Sonic Arts: information for enquirers & applicants

From September 2010, important components of the present BA Sonic Arts course will be offered as a pathway within the BA Fine Art programme and this will provide a unique opportunity for anyone interested in creative work with sound to explore the subject in a broad and well-supported academic context that responds to the increasingly close relationship between the two subjects while preserving their individual identities.

The forthcoming merger of the two programmes (which are also being joined by BA Fine Art & Critical Theory) will offer an exciting and robust strand of studies that is specifically relevant to sound art, accompanied by practical creative activities that will initiate and realise sound-based artworks and theoretical and critical studies that will provide a strong academic context in which these ideas and practices may be developed.

Other unique features of this pathway will include the availability of laboratory, technical and studio resources and spaces for the realisation of works - a range of specialist facilities substantially beyond those offered by other UK sound art programmes.

The programme (whose revalidation will take place in March 2010) lasts three years if taken full time or six if taken part time. The final award will be of BA (Hons) Fine Art, replacing the existing one of BA (Hons) Sonic Arts. With effect from December 1, 2010, all applications to BA Sonic Arts will be transferred to the new programme.

The programme will run at the University’s Cat Hill campus starting in September 2010: in common with other Art & Design programmes at Middlesex, it is expected to relocate to the new Hendon campus in the summer of 2011.

If you would like further information, please contact the Electronic/Sonic Arts Coordinator, Nic Sandiland (n.sandiland@mdx.ac.uk) or the BA Fine Art Programme Leader, John Timberlake (j.timberlake@mdx.ac.uk)

The Sonic Arts Programme Team