Requisites: AND Pre-requisite: HND in music performance, composition or technologies AND AND Pre-requisite: [Module MUS08121] Recording Studio Theory & Practice 2 AND Pre-requisite: [Module MUS08152] Music Technology and Live Performance

This module will consolidate and enhance your technical and problem solving skills in performance, composition and production. You will explore utilisation of technical skill when meeting parameters surrounding creative parameters that take in:1/ Scene – For example enhancing atmosphere and/or sense of time, place, and action through music2/ Narrative – For example telling story and complementing its development through music3/ Perspective – For example emphasising and arguing a point of view, theme, or opinion through music4/ Abstraction – For example interpreting an idea or stimulus through music5/ Distortion – For example twisting and deforming a theme or idea through musicAt the beginning of the module you will determine the balance of your focus and assessment, in 1/3 blocks, across these three disciplines (performance, production, composition) *. You may focus on one or two of these disciplines. You will hone specific skills relating to the discipline or disciplines on which you have chosen to focus and demonstrate these when meeting set parameters for a creative end goal.Bi-weekly lectures and/or workshops will explore musical concepts, taking into consideration the interaction and connectivity of composition, production and performance. These will alternate with discipline specific seminars or tutorials, whichfocus on student led explorations of applied technique when realising parametersexplored in the previous week. Attendance at discipline-specific tutorials will be determined by the balance of focus and assessment you have negotiated at the beginning of the module.* Note that students wishing to receive 1:1 tuition for performance specialisms (drums, bass, voices, keys, or guitar) must have focused on principal instrument studies in performance based modules on this program or equivalent levels of study. They must weigh performance as their primary focus, with a minimum of 2/3 if focusing on two disciplines.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Determine and demonstrate the use of discipline related techniques when working to meet set creative parameters in music production, composition and/or performance.

LO2: Critically reflect on the use of discipline related techniques, and evaluate end product, when working to meet set creative parameters in music production, composition and/or performance.

LO3: Realise creative output through synthesis and application of knowledge and skills.

LO4: Challenge, through self-inquiry, the use of technique when working to meet set parameters in music production, composition and/or performance.