Audio Arts & Acoustics

As practitioners of sound arts and sciences, the faculty members of the Department of Audio Arts and Acoustics at Columbia College are committed to advancing the foundation, practice, and aesthetic criteria necessary to maintain a discipline that serves one of the principal mediums of communication and personal expression.

We are committed to offering our students the tools and the opportunities to build, reinforce, and maintain the fundamental knowledge and skills that are required for a successful career in a technologically intensive environment.

We believe that we must nurture a strong liberal arts component as an integral part of our program. We are dedicated to offering our students every reasonable opportunity to express their creativity in a fashion compatible with and complimentary to the academic standards of our department.

We are committed to our program’s reputation among industry and other peer institutions; it is this commitment that drives our Department’s growth. Hence, we encourage dialogue between our program and the industry, and we foster the growth of interaction between our students and their peers.

We pledge to actively promote the Mission of Columbia College Chicago by engendering an educational climate where the value of social and cultural diversity is recognized.

Audio Arts & Acoustics students, alumni, faculty, and industry colleagues enjoyed two engaging demonstrations of the department’s new DiGiCo SD8 mixing console and its state-of-the art audio technology.  The demo was provided by Matt Larson, Group One, Ltd’s National Sales Manager...

Two back-to-back presentations in September by music engineer and producer, Eddie Kramer, and audio scientist and researcher, Bill Hartmann, highlighted what the Audio Arts and Acoustics Department is all about: the intellectual intersection of audio as art, science, and practice.

Two Audio Arts & Acoustics alumni, Aaron Patkin and Joe Perona currently working with Gand Concert Sound, ran front-of-house and monitor mixes for a recent Smash Mouth concert at the Barrington (Illinois) High School football field.

Audio Arts & Acoustics student Ehsan Ghoreishi and Columbia alum Doug Abram (BA '98) are members of the Black Bear Combo. The group performed with Redmoon Theatre at the 2009 White House Halloween Party & Trick o' Treat in Washington, D.C...

Audio Arts & Acoustics students won seven of twelve scholarships granted in 2009 by the National Systems Contractors Association's (NSCA) Education Foundation and Bosch Scholarship Fund. And the winners are...

A new tenure-track position for Live Sound Reinforcement has been posted and is officially open for submissions...

The band They Might Be Giants built their live sessions for their upcoming US tour using our Department's brand new DiGiCo SD-8 digital desk...

Andrew Gorton, a 2000 alum of the Acoustics Program at the Department of Audio Arts & Acoustics was named in the “40 under 40” list of outstanding professionals...