Building A
T. +41 (0) 22 558 66 43
Wednesday to Friday: 9.00-12.30 and 13.30-17.00.

The image-sound Pool is a place for students from all departments of HEAD – Genève to create audio and visual projects. In its cross-curricular role, it provides students with the tools required to achieve their projects, from elaboration of an idea to final realisation, with technical and conceptual support, and access to video workstations and sound studios. It also provides technical equipment and can help with some of the filming. The Pool offers a programme of courses, including introductory and advanced technical courses, and responds to requests from the departments by organising workshops.

Its main roles are:
to impart audiovisual skills and critical knowledge of their uses in contemporary art and design
to meet the needs of students and teachers
to support the audiovisual documentation of work and modes of dissemination

The teaching team:
responds to the demand of students who develop art or design projects involving video and/or sound
offers a programme of practical teaching (introduction and improvement)
offers material, technical, and conceptual support for projects

The technical team/assistants:
manages the scheduling of video workstations and sound studios
helps with certain video shoots.
manages the provision of technical equipment
responds to students’ needs

Infrastructure and equipment:
Room 1.11 is equipped with 10 computer stations with the Adobe suite (Premiere-After Effect, Photoshop, In Design, etc.) and DAW software and specific plugins (Ableton live, ProTools, Adobe audition, gr-mtool). The room is equipped with an ambisonic sound system with 16 speakers. A video station with mini DV acquisition equipment and a control monitor is also available in the room.
A broadcasting room (a 20m2 studio) dedicated to sound mixing in stereo and quadraphonic is available. DAW software and specific plugins are available (Ableton live, ProTools, Adobe audition, waves plugins, gr-mtool, Arturia suite). A modular system and various MIDI interfaces are available for sound research.

Heads: Claude Piguet and Swann Thommen

Cross-curricular teaching team:
Maëlle Gross: assistant
Daniel Zea

See the Image-sound pool website for details of projects, and to register for teaching opportunities