Soundscape is, for better or worse, ubiquitous. It exists in coffee shops, dentist's offices, clubs and concert halls and can be anything from ambient forms, urban hip hop and Drum n' Bass, or compositions by Brian Eno or John Cage. Soundscape is multi-formal, from the musical to the cinematic, from the architectural to the biographical. This production course both creates and theorizes soundscape through Soundstaging, which is both the projection of sound into space and the creation of space in sound, each process reciprocally informing the other, in both aural (production) and scholarly work. Production emphasis during the course will be on soundscape design and creation and students are expected to complete projects, using digital audio workstations and multi-track recorders, audio sampling technologies, sequencing and digital audio software. Production work will be accompanied by related readings, and in-class work is divided among listening/analysis and playback/criticism. Readings will include texts by practitioners and scholars such as Bachelard, Cage, Chion, Derrida, Hal Foster, Merleau-Ponty, Schaefer, Paolino Accolla, Norbert Bolz, and Marc Holthof.