Sound is all around us, whether it’s live performance or recorded music; footsteps in a game, film, or stage production; or the audio of a NASCAR street race. At Columbia College Chicago, you’ll find students in the School of Audio and Music lending their talents to create, manipulate, and amplify music and sound all around campus, whether it’s on stage, behind a mixing board, in a sound studio, or at their laptop. They explore various genres and mediums and master the art of collaboration as they earn degrees in audio arts, performance and songwriting, music production, composition for media, music technology, and sound design for media and theatre. Here are just a few examples of their work.
Kassandra Borah ’25
In this student portfolio, Kassandra Borah, a Sound Design student, shows off her skills in sound editing, sound mixing, and sound design. In clip 1, Borah redesigned the sound, created dinosaur “voices,” added music, background sound, and sound effects. In clip 2, she did the sound editing and mixing. In clip 3, Borah did all the sound design except the dialogue editing. And in clip 4, she edited the video as well as selected and edited the music and edited the audio.
Performed by Columbia vocalists and Columbia’s Jazz Ensemble; Written by U2
Columbia singers are backed by the school’s Jazz Ensemble in this moving rendition of a U2 song.
Written and performed by Danielle Crim ‘24
The song "Unbelievable," written and performed by Danielle Crim '24, provided the soundtrack to the 2024 Manifest Arts Festival.
Performed by Columbia’s Pop Rock Ensemble: Showcase; Written by Pritam (Composer) and Neelesh Misra (Lyrics)
Columbia students performed this popular Hindi song, which was featured in the 2012 Indian film “Agent Vinod.”