<p>I would like to study the following: critical theory, semiotics, media and cultural studies, sonic art, sound design, and electroacoustic music. I live in the US. Is there any place I can study all these things, or most of them? I’ve had little luck trying.
Thanks</p>
<p>Any good theater/music school should have people interested in this. You probably want a place that is truly focused on those arts. NCArts or Columbia College in Chicago might do.</p>
<p>Look at the New School in NYC, University of the Arts, and Drexel.</p>
<p>Why Drexel?</p>
<p>Will I be unable to find these things in a university or liberal arts college?</p>
<p>Possibly, but there aren’t many places for sound design & sonic arts. Start with the music departments and go from there.</p>
<p>Bard or Hampshire are the best places for that combination of interests. </p>
<p>(disclosure: I’m into that stuff too–I’m an active electroacoustic improvising musician interested in critical theory–but I didn’t do anything like that in college. I went to Williams.)</p>
<p>Doesn’t seem like a weird mix of interests at all. Bard would be a good fit. Also look into Oberlin. And UC Berkeley and Stanford. Possibly CalArts. Maybe UC San Diego. If you’re female, then Mills College. Pauline Oliveros teaches at Rensselaer [BS</a> in Electronic Arts - Department of the Arts - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)](<a href=“http://www.arts.rpi.edu/pl/bs-electronic-arts]BS”>http://www.arts.rpi.edu/pl/bs-electronic-arts) & [Department</a> of Communication and Media](<a href=“http://www.cm.rpi.edu/]Department”>http://www.cm.rpi.edu/)</p>
<p>Drexel has CoMAD, the College of Media Arts and Design. It’s better known for techie stuff, but the arts are there, too.</p>
<p>Right–Oberlin is a great call. I played there myself not too long ago. </p>
<p>Wesleyan is another interesting option: psychoacoustics master Ron Kuivala is there, as is Anthony Braxton (I believe Alvin Lucier has retired?) and critical theory is evident all over the curriculum.</p>