MUS2086 : Composing with Technologies (Inactive)

Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 1 Credit Value: 10
Semester 2 Credit Value: 10
ECTS Credits: 10.0
European Credit Transfer System

Aims

To explore creative ways of making music/sound art through practical engagement with a range of methods and approaches selected from a plurality of repertoires.

To facilitate understanding of recent trends in contemporary and experimental musics including online music making and broadcasting.

To encourage and develop individual and group creativity.

To promote active engagement with a variety of recent creative approaches and styles.

To lay the foundations for further study in experimental musics, informed by creative practices in the last century up to the present day.

Outline Of Syllabus

This module will help you engage with a range of current techniques of music making, and will combining theoretical understanding with practical application and an appreciation of contemporary repertoire from a range of more-or-less experimental approaches. Each lecture will introduce an approach, leading in to a practical assignment that will be developed in subsequent seminars/workshops. Where possible completed assignments will be realised by the students themselves, either alone or working collaboartively in small groups. The use of Sibelius software may be required for some aspects of the module, as may DAWs and/or live electronic programmes such as Max/MSP or P-d, Youtube and Twitch.

The approach will be broadly-speaking "experimental", though in the present day situation of music making this covers a very wide range of styles.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Structured Guided LearningLecture materials48:0032:00introduces and sets projects (online asynchronous)
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesSmall group teaching132:0026:00student led work on group projects (online synchronous/asynchronous/PiP depending on circs)
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesWorkshops181:0018:00supervised workshops. Online synchronous or PiP depending on circumstances
Guided Independent StudyIndependent study1124:00124:00individual composition, portfolio preparation, written commentaries, etc.
Total200:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Lectures will introduce projects, give basic starting skills, and outline conceptual and technical considerations.

Workshops provide supervised practical sessions, usually but not exclusively in small groups, supporting students experimentation and providing on-the-spot guidance. These may be delivered online synchronous, online asynchronous, or PiP depending on circumstances.

Student-led small group sessions afford experience in unsupervised collaboration, and also peer evaluation
independent study allows for indiviudal compositional projects, as well as preparation of assessed materials and scholarly research where relevant

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Portfolio1A50to include written commentary and documentation of work undertaken as appropriate to each project
Portfolio2A50to include written commentary and documentation of work undertaken as appropriate to each project
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The two portfolios evidence completed work undertaken. Materials may include written scores, audio or video recordings of performances, or other suitable documentation to be agreed with module leader as projects develop.

Written aspects of the portfolio will be determined according to the nature of the different projects undertaken, and will evidence conceptual understanding, technical realisation (where appropriate) and contextual knowledge of repertoires associated with each project.

Reading Lists

Timetable