University degrees: Postgraduate
Course city: Louvain-La-Neuve
This 60-credit Master is organized for graduates in Sound Baccalaureate who wish to complete their training with a specialization.
The training alternates between collaborations and autonomous work.
The programs include general courses, technical courses and artistic courses.
General courses target an approach to the legal contexts in force in the field of the performing arts.
The technical courses aim to specialize students in the two streams available to them.
The artistic courses are divided into workshops to perfect the artistic creation process.
The two options of this Master are:
– the sound system for concerts
– mixing and musical mastering.
The sound system for concerts.
The objective: to train sound engineers capable of putting the most modern tools and techniques at the service of public address systems.
Students take highly targeted courses which prepare them for their artistic workshops
Concert production seminar
Processors and control
Prediction software
Analysis software
Mixing consoles
Then they take part in several training workshops:
Live mixing (simulation)
Acoustics and diffusion theory
Integration of mixing tools (complex management)
Radio frequency transmissions
Returns management
Taking his battery
Live mixing pilot
Concert recording
Implementation of broadcasting system
Concerts reception
Mastering Pub musical production workshop
Management of concert production
Plateau management
Some of these workshops take place in public as part of concerts, specially organized for training.
This master is organized thanks to a partnership set up with Ferme du Biereau, which hosts public concerts in which students mix live sound.
Mixing and musical mastering.
The objective: to train sound engineers capable of mastering all the stages that lead to the final mixing of a musical piece.
Students take very targeted courses which prepare them for their artistic workshops:
In-depth theory of mastering
Mastering techniques
Hardware and software tools and patent
Then they take part in several training workshops:
Taking his battery
Trigg-Time streching workshop – Elastic
Correction Workshop – Trueness – Melodyne
Application Implementation and Melodyne
Electronic Music Creation and Mixing Workshop
Electronic music mixing application
Mixing on analog console
“In the box” mixing
“In the box” mixing application
Coaching workshop – Artist direction
Recording technical workshop
Mastering Pub musical production workshop
Practice of mixing techniques (Masterclass)
To then carry out their recording, mixing and mastering work at the end of the cycle
In each of the fields, the students have highly qualified technical infrastructures.
Workshops alternate with evaluated training modules.
At the end of the cycle, the students create a personal and complex creation, involving technical and artistic processes requiring high qualification.
At the end of this training, the students are ready to assume their responsibilities independently within professional structures, and to formulate in this framework original artistic proposals related to the fields of musical mixing or the sound system of concerts.