Students in this co-major will be able to take a variety of Sound focused courses from our Interactive Arts and Sound Art curriculum with an eye towards allowing the student to decide how they want to navigate the sound courses. Through the study of the sonic arts at MICA, you will develop an understanding of the countless ways musical composers, sound artists, and visual artists can conceive of and develop sound as a unique and powerful work of art.

Equipment, Facilities and Resources 

Students will learn to use a range of software and hardware used in connected workflows. By taking Animation and Media Arts Studio electives, CMP students will develop, build and sharpen their technical expertise.

The Animation and Media Arts Department––Students will work with software platforms including the Adobe Creative Cloud suite (Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate, Audition), DaVinci Resolve, DragonFrame, Maya, Unity, Rhino, Ableton Live, Apple Logic, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, TV Paint Animation, iZotope RX, Capture One, Unreal Engine, Touch Designer, Maxon ZBrush, Soundly, Madmapper and more.

Students will have access to an array of equipment such as professional video and stills cameras, lighting setups, audio recording and post-production equipment, digital fabrication tools (like laser cutters, 3D printers and CNC routers), microcontroller systems and more. Students can borrow equipment cages from the Art Tech Center, JHU-MICA FIlm Centre equipment cage or the MICA Photo program cage, depending on the courses they take.

Facilities include dedicated spaces for animation, recording, production, interactive art, game design, and a large sound stage, editing suites, and post-production facilities at the JHU-MICA Film Centre, as well as darkrooms and printing labs. Students also have access to various fabrication studios across campus.