Sound Design – Carleton College

Since 2012, Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies Jay Beck has taught a course on Sound Design. Students enrolled in the course are asked to select an artwork from the Carleton Art Collection and interpret it through sound. Periodically, these projects are displayed in campus exhibitions.

Spring 2025

Fifteen student soundscapes from the Spring 2025 Sound Design course

In a black and white photograph, four African men pose in front of a painted landscape mural. One man is being fitted for a suit coat.

Winter 2023

Projects from the Winter 2023 Sound Design course were featured in an exhibition in the Weitz Center’s Hamlin Creative Space.

Lithograph of a farm scene, with a man pumping water as a fire burns in the background

Spring 2022

Projects from the Spring 2022 Sound Design course were featured in the exhibition Curious Objects.

Tanja Softic print of underwater creatures

Spring 2015

Projects from the Spring 2015 Sound Design course were featured in the exhibition Sets, Series, Sounds.

Oil painting of grain elevators and railroad tracks