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Sound Design

Do you have a feel for sound? What if you could use it to tell stories in films? Sounds evoke emotions and add depth. They are invisible, but indispensable. This programme combines art, engineering and technology. You will discover how to use them to create impactful soundtracks.

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Sound: The Secret Ingredient

As a sound designer, you create unique soundtracks that perfectly complement an artistic work. You’ll take charge of everything—from recording and editing to mixing— especially for films, but also for other projects like installations and performances. With a creative approach, you’ll shape every audible element, both on and off the screen. Your work adds emotional and symbolic layers that profoundly affect the audience, often on a subconscious level. Without your input, immersive experiences would simply not be possible.

Collaboration

As a sound designer, you are a vital part of a team, working closely with others. Throughout the program, you’ll participate in exercises and workshops alongside students in Directing, Writing, Production, Cinematography, and Editing. Opportunities to collaborate with students from Radio and Animation Film programs also arise. The shared goal? Creating captivating experiences where image and sound amplify one another.

Your Unique Sound

Creating a soundtrack involves more than technical expertise—it’s an artistic process. During the program, you’ll develop your personal vision and style, ensuring your creations carry a unique and recognizable signature. By experimenting, reflecting, and working on diverse projects, you’ll discover what sets you apart as a sound designer and how to bring your unique sound to life.

→ All classes are in Dutch.

Info sessions

Are you considering a creative education in the audiovisual arts, but still have some questions? Come to one of our many information sessions and hear, feel, or experience what it's like at RITCS.

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First Year

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Foundations of Sound

In your first year, you’ll explore audiovisual fundamentals alongside students from other disciplines. You’ll receive a broad introduction to art and film history, as well as specialized sound design courses in on-set recording, post-production, and audio technology. The year culminates in a personal audio-only project, where you’ll take your first artistic steps.

Second Year

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Deepening and Vision

The second year focuses on reflection and deepening your skills. You’ll work with the three key aspects of a soundtrack: recording, editing, and mixing, for both documentaries and fiction films. Collaborating with directors, you’ll develop a vision for sound design, focusing on tone, drama, and narrative. Your personal style and vision will gain prominence. Courses in Political Theory, Cultural Theory, Film Analysis, and Film History expand your cultural perspective. In the Transversal Workshop, you’ll collaborate with students from other academic disciplines on artistic research in the dynamic setting of Brussels

Third Year

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Professionalizing 

In the third year, you will deepen your expertise in sound recording, dialogue editing and film mixing. To this end, you will be surrounded by state-of-the-art tools and infrastructure. Film practice workshops will refine your artistic and technical skills. You will create soundscapes and experiment with synthesis techniques in a performative context.

Master's Year

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Specialization and Final Project

In the master's year, you will approach sound design from the perspective of foley creation and gain experience with surround sound. Music recording will play a more prominent role in your work. With a keen eye and ear for detail, you will take your work to the next level. From this maturity, you will be guided in the search for your own “sound core”, which sets you apart from your fellow students. This condenses into a final project that you learn to defend before a jury from the professional field. 

You will become a master in what suits you best, while your network grows exponentially beyond the school boundaries. The perfect starting point for a career in sound.

Your programme

If you want detailed info on the subjects (assessment, examination formats...), please visit our study guide where you can find all ECTS sheets of our programmes:

  1. 1 ABA in Audiovisual Arts – Sound Design
  2. 2 ABA in Audiovisual Arts – Sound Design
  3. 3 ABA in Audiovisual Arts – Sound Design
  4. MA in Audiovisual Arts – Sound Design

Admission Test

To start this programme, you must first pass an artistic admission test. The admission test consists of three parts: a dossier, an intake or selection interview and a workshop week. Read more about the admission tests here.

Quality Education

Erasmushogeschool Brussel pursues quality education and continuously develops its programmes to meet (inter)national quality standards.EhB puts maximum effort into developing a culture of quality and uses its own quality direction as a foundation for quality education.

Various instruments guarantee the strengthening and safeguarding of the educational quality of this programme: 

  • In 2024 external peers assessed the quality of this programme. Read the full peer review.
  • The Board of Governors of EhB decided to validate this programme for the period 2024 to 2030 in the validation sheet.
  • The quality file provides an overview of the strengths and growth opportunities of this programme.

The Flemish government's education in figures website provides information on the profile of this programme such as who follows this programme, how long students take to obtain their degree, etc.

Read more about quality assurance within EhB.