Further Information
The purpose of the Department of Sound Technology and Musical Instruments is to provide a high level of technological education, with the purpose of creating scientists with a high level of knowledge, skills, and competences concerning the science and technology of sound and musical instruments.
Specifically, the Department's curriculum serves the following purpose:
- Provide quality higher education, in accordance with the internationally accepted standards.
- Ensure the technological direction of studies, focused on laboratory training, in combination with quality theoretical education.
- Keep up with the latest developments in research and technology, and adjust its educational subject to them.
- Cultivate skills to its graduates, which shall enable them to cope (a) with a competitive work environment, (b) with postgraduate studies, and (c) with the need to keep up with the developments of research and technology.
- Formulate a suitable educational environment through volunteering and extrovert services provided by T.E.I. Ionian Islands, so that the graduates, apart from their technological education, formulate into complete and socially sensitive personalities.
Apart from the above, the Department of Sound Technology and Musical Instruments participates in research and development programmes, offering its students educational consulting, which is specifically focused on postgraduate studies, while developing the educational role of information technology and supporting actions for mixed learning.
The orientation, focus, and main cognitive subjects of the Curriculum:
The curriculum supports 47 courses of which compulsory is 36. Elective is 8 and optional courses 3. The elective and optional courses are distributed in two non-statutory Directions:
a) Sound Technology
b) Musical Instruments Technology
Based on the above non-statutory Directions, the undergraduate course of the Department of Sound and Musical Instruments Technology focuses on the following general principles:
- The application of modern technology in recording, analysis, synthesis, production and management of sound.
- In the arts and techniques relating to the design, construction, repair, conservation and restoration mainly stringed instruments.
- In audio applications, the design space, musical instruments, to measure environmental noise.
- The development and management of entertainment products and television production.
Key knowledge areas of the curriculum include, inter alia:
Cognitive special infrastructure objects and specialization such as:
Mathematics, Physics – Mechanics, Informatics, Informatics Special Applications, Recording Techniques, Digital sound and signal processing, Digital sound composition, Post-processing and mastering,
Sound support of events, Electronic Sound System, Electroacoustics, Technology Spectacle, Musicology, Applications Acoustics and Sound Design, Designing acoustic spaces, Design of Musical instruments using isotropic and anisotropic materials.
Relation To Employment
The graduate of the Department of Sound and Musical Instruments Technology works for the private and public sector, either in collaboration with other scientists or freelance, doing research and applying technology to the modern and specialized sectors of Music Technology.
He/she carries out researches into the establishment of units related to Music Instruments Technology, their organization and function as well as their production control.
The graduate of the Department can work as teacher exclusively on Music Schools, teaching Music Technology.
In addition, the Department's Graduate can respond comprehensively to the needs of the monitoring of research development and innovation of technology and lifelong learning.
He/she can also extend and refine the knowledge of the field by conducting postgraduate studies to obtain post-graduate academic degrees (M.Sc., Ph.D.) at the Universities of our country or abroad.
Transitions
Access to this type of qualification have those who have completed at least the secondary education (level 4).
Holders of such qualifications gain access to study programmes at the same level or at level 7 or 8.
Ways To Aquire
Qualifications of this type are acquired via formal education.