Last modified: 01 Jul 2020 09:15
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.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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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:
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 70 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 19 | Feedback Weeks | 21 | |
| Feedback |
Instructor’s oral and written feedback |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | Be able to have a practical knowledge and understanding of electronic music making |
| Reflection | Create | Be able to create and perform live electronic music using prepared sound materials and/or through live coding techniques |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 19 | Feedback Weeks | 21 | |
| Feedback |
Instructor’s oral and written feedback |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | Be able to have a practical knowledge and understanding of electronic music making |
| Reflection | Create | Be able to create and perform live electronic music using prepared sound materials and/or through live coding techniques |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 49 | Feedback Weeks | 51 | |
| Feedback |
Instructor’s written feedback |
Word Count | 4000 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Evaluate | Be able to have a practical knowledge and understanding of electronic music making |
| Reflection | Create | Be able to create and perform live electronic music using prepared sound materials and/or through live coding techniques |
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