HEAD Campus / Building A / room 1.11
Route des Franchises 2 
Geneva

The Image-Sound Pool is a creative space for audio and video projects that is accessible to students from all faculties at HEAD – Genève. In its cross-disciplinary role, the Pool offers courses, introductions and further technical training, and meets the demands of the faculties through workshops or specific courses throughout the year. It also assists students with their projects at all levels by offering technical and conceptual support, access to workstations and specialised rooms as well as to specific technical equipment.

Main Roles:

• Teach the technical and conceptual basics in the field of video and sound through introductory and advanced courses
• Expand the field of knowledge through a professional approach
• Monitor student projects involving the use of video or sound production techniques through to their final realisation
• Consider the documentation of work and its forms of dissemination
• Respond to any requests from students who wish to practise video and sound art
• Manage the schedule of use of the video workstations and the use of the rooms linked to the Image-Sound Pool
• Provide more specific technical equipment related to the field of video and sound
• Provide technical support to students according to specific requests
• Organise workshops at the request of the various option Heads
• Provide more specific technical material related to the field of video and sound
• Offer individual meetings to discuss technical and conceptual aspects and to provide support for individual student projects

Infrastrucutre & equipment

• Room 1.11 is equipped with 10 computer workstations with the Adobe suite (Premiere, After Effect, Photoshop, InDesign, etc.) and with various MAO software and specific plugins (Ableton live, Pro Tools, Adobe audition, gr-mtool). The room is also equipped with an ambisonic sound system with 16 speakers
• Room 3.12 is a 20m2 studio dedicated to sound mixing in stereo and quadraphonic. Various MAX software and specific plugins are available (Ableton live, Pro Tools, Adobe audition, waves plugins, gr-mtool, Arturia suite). A modular system and various MIDI interfaces are available for sound research.
• The Greybox room is a 50m2 room designed for multi-channel video broadcasting. It is equipped with three wide-angle projectors that allow the broadcasting of 1 to 3 video channels, a 4.1 sound system and a MacPro computer with MadMapper software to determine the shape of the projected images with precision.

Staff:
Coordinators: Claude Piguet & Swann Thommen
Teaching staff: Claude Piguet, Swann Thommen & Daniel Zea
Assistant: Samuel Cardoso

See the Image-Sound Pool website for details of the projects and to register for the various courses on offer.
The five pools – centres of production and expertise – provide both educational and technical resources and lie at the heart of HEAD – Genève’s cross-disciplinary approach. Integrated into the teaching of all the faculties at different levels, the pools are also places where students can benefit from technical assistance and professional advice in the realisation of their most varied and innovative projects. The support, from concept to realisation, is focused on the acquisition of know-how and the autonomy of the students. It combines technical, artistic/design, sustainability and methodological (project management) issues.
Each pool is made up of a team of professionals (technicians and teaching artists/designers) and is equipped with extensive production and design workshops, offering students the use of specialised state-of-the-art equipment.