Sound Arts - Sound Arts as Business

Sound Arts as Business (SNDA 2390)

Total Credits: 3
Lecture Credits: 3.00

Description: This course examines the prospect of developing, creating and delivering music and sound art for financial gain, as an independent artist or technician. You will learn to match industry needs to your particular talents and interests, develop a business plan for reaching your goal, perform basic bookkeeping and tax procedures, market your business and protect and profit from your art through copyright and other means. You will leave this course with a better understanding of the business side of the music and sound industry and with practical techniques necessary for working in the area.

Topical Outline:

Learning Outcomes:
1. 1. Relate to ways become more aware, comfortable, and empowered to protect and profit from their work in the field
2. 2. Transform the complex intersection of creative work and market forces into a professional life, by adapting their full range of resources to it
3. 3. Assess the role of Sound Arts in their personal and professional lives, and to identify their next-steps
4. 4. Relate to specific niche businesses in Sound Arts, and the practical concerns involved with them

Prerequisites: 

SNDA 1310 and acceptance into the Sound Arts Program.