There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

The study of lived experience (phenomenology) is a rapidly developing field with significant potential to deepen your understanding of musical experience across performance, composition, sound production and musicology. As a developing professional musician, you will gain the conceptual and reflective tools to examine and articulate the felt, embodied, and relational dimensions of music practice; aspects that are complement traditional analytical or cultural approaches.Through close attention to lived perception, intentionality, embodiment and human relation, you will develop the ability to critically reflect on how music is experienced as a meaningful and dynamic phenomenon. These skills are highly relevant across a range of professional contexts, including performance teaching, community music, composition, sound design, research and interdisciplinary creative practice, where reflective awareness and the ability to communicate nuanced musical experience are increasingly valued.This module positions lived experiences not as secondary to analysis, but as a primary source of musical knowledge. In doing so, it encourages you to connect critical inquiry with your own artistic and professional practice, developing greater sensitivity to how music shapes, and is shaped, by human experience.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Critically evaluate the role of lived experience in music perception, creation, and performance

LO2: Adapt central ideas from phenomenological philosophy to your own creative practice and/or to the exploration of lived experience within a selected musical context

LO3: Analyse and appraise qualitative data found in your own lived experience(s) and/or the experiences of others.

LO4: Synthesise phenomenological methodologies and philosophies to disseminate your findings and encourage experiential resonance