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MU4027: BEEPS AND BLIPS: A WORLD OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC (2020-2021)

Last modified: 01 Jul 2020 09:15


Course Overview

This course offers an excellent introduction to the world of electronic music, not only from the academic, contemporary electronic music, but also from more commercial and underground noise music scenes that have thrived over the last several decades since the 1980s. It is a compositional course where students will learn how to make beeping and blipping, high pulse electronic music or gently sweeping ambient music using contemporary music technologies.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 4
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Suk-jun Kim

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Undergraduate Programme
  • Programme Level 4

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This composition course focuses on students to create electronic music that lives both in academic and commercial music scenes. Using state-of-the-art music technologies and software, students will learn how to prepare sound materials for both composition and live performance situations. The essential perspective that students are advised to have for this course is experimentalism in listening to sounds, prepare sound materials for composition, and deliver electronic music that pushes the limits of their own listening and music making habits.

After the successful completion of the course, the students will:

  • Be able to have a practical knowledge and understanding of electronic music making;
  • Be able to create and perform live electronic music using prepared sound materials and/or through live coding techniques.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

A portfolio of compositions - project

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 70
Assessment Weeks 19 Feedback Weeks 21

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Feedback

Instructor’s oral and written feedback

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateBe able to have a practical knowledge and understanding of electronic music making
ReflectionCreateBe able to create and perform live electronic music using prepared sound materials and/or through live coding techniques

Live Performance - project

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
Assessment Weeks 19 Feedback Weeks 21

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Feedback

Instructor’s oral and written feedback

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateBe able to have a practical knowledge and understanding of electronic music making
ReflectionCreateBe able to create and perform live electronic music using prepared sound materials and/or through live coding techniques

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks 49 Feedback Weeks 51

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Feedback

Instructor’s written feedback

Word Count 4000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateBe able to have a practical knowledge and understanding of electronic music making
ReflectionCreateBe able to create and perform live electronic music using prepared sound materials and/or through live coding techniques

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