In this course students will create unconventional sound designs, musical scores, and voice-overs for found footage, experimenting with compositional techniques that are irreducibly audiovisual. To stimulate this work, we will critically examine a number of ideas, films, and sound art projects including: the audio-driven film essays of the Black Audio Film Collective, the soundwalks of Janet Cardiff, theories of audiovisual montage from early Soviet cinema, and Jean-Luc Godard’s complex and musically constructed histoire(s) du cinema. One of the course’s central objectives will be to identify, question, and sonically disrupt some of the social and political assumptions embedded in mainstream uses of sound, and to think about new audiovisual possibilities in the online environment. As the class will not involve technical instruction, students must already have experience using at least one sound and/or video editing program such as Premiere, Final Cut, iMovie, Ableton, ProTools, or Logic.