Music Production and Performance (Including Foundation Entry)
Entry requirements
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Entry Requirements for Foundation year are 64 UCAS points.
About this course
This is a multi-disciplinary applied music production and performance degree. It uniquely caters for aspiring music performers, producers and composers who seek to develop and manage their music production, performance and composition skills to align with the modern day music industry. The study of music in academic contexts is continuously changing in response to external developments, particularly in the music industry, music technologies, and the practice of music performance and production. Given the ever-changing nature of the field, we encourage a focus on building a research community within the Music Production and Performance course. This will enable students to maintain an awareness of current trends, and create original research and practice portfolios that take into consideration new practices in music and audio. We will develop students’ ability to approach their careers in unique ways, and demonstrate the various ways in which music production and performance skills can be utilised outside of the normal studio-based contexts to generate multiple income streams.
Modules
Level 4 Professional Performance Context Music Composition Disciplines in Live Audio Music Production Principles Music Production Practice Level 5 Professional Performance Practice Studio Production Techniques Studio Production Process Experimental Music Composition Production Analysis Audio Production Techniques: Live Level 6 Professional Performance Management Production Company Project Dissertation Live Show Design
Assessment methods
Creative projects, often assessed by a mixture of continuous assessment, documentation and final presentation. Essays and other coursework that tests your ability to investigate a topic and organise their material and ideas to a prescribed deadline. Extended dissertations, individual projects and portfolios as products of advanced understanding, knowledge, research skills and/or creative achievement. Reports on empirical work, which may take the form of fieldwork or laboratory experiments. Group and individual portfolios of written work and audio content that will include research, pre-production, production and post-production work submissions. Critical self-evaluation and role analysis in the form of individual reflective written evaluations. Peer evaluation in the form of discussion of work in groups.
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