The BA Honours Creative Music Technology degree builds on many years of experience in electronic, electroacoustic and computer music at Anglia Ruskin University. The focus is strictly musical, although the degree structure introduces you to a wide range of technological applications within computer music composition. A 'hands-on' approach is adopted at all times and a variety of creative outputs and performance opportunities are encouraged.
Your work will be carried out in the outstanding facilities available within our purpose-built Music Centre. As well as lecture rooms, practice rooms and a recital hall, we have an extensive suite of computer music studios, which include workstation laboratories, digital editing studios and recording facilities. Exposure to this state-of-the-art equipment will ensure you become familiar with the kind of technology currently used within the industry.
This degree will certainly provide intellectual stimulation, exposing you to a range of musical experiences, challenging your preconceptions of what music is. Lectures and seminars will provide you with the necessary theoretical background, and in workshops and studio time you will put this theory into practice.
The Department of Music and Performing Arts is especially proud of its extensive and stimulating programme of public concerts, theatrical performances and workshops. On campus, we host a series of weekly lunch-time concerts given by professional musicians, and visiting artists and performers are regularly invited to give master-classes and workshops across the degree programmes. Large-scale orchestral and choral concerts are mounted at venues throughout the city, together with a variety of smaller ensembles, from the Rhythm Ensembles to the live laptop ensemble, MEME.
Course overview
The BA Honours Creative Music Technology degree builds on many years of experience in electronic, electroacoustic and computer music at Anglia Ruskin University. The focus is strictly musical, although the degree structure introduces you to a wide range of technological applications within computer music composition. A 'hands-on' approach is adopted at all times and a variety of creative outputs and performance opportunities are encouraged.
Your work will be carried out in the outstanding facilities available within our purpose-built Music Centre. As well as lecture rooms, practice rooms and a recital hall, we have an extensive suite of computer music studios, which include workstation laboratories, digital editing studios and recording facilities. Exposure to this state-of-the-art equipment will ensure you become familiar with the kind of technology currently used within the industry.
This degree will certainly provide intellectual stimulation, exposing you to a range of musical experiences, challenging your preconceptions of what music is.
Lectures and seminars will provide you with the necessary theoretical background, and in workshops and studio time you will put this theory into practice.
The Department of Music and Performing Arts is especially proud of its extensive and stimulating programme of public concerts, theatrical performances and workshops. On campus, we host a series of weekly lunch-time concerts given by professional musicians, and visiting artists and performers are regularly invited to give master-classes and workshops across the degree programmes. Large-scale orchestral and choral concerts are mounted at venues throughout the city, together with a variety of smaller ensembles, from the Rhythm Ensembles to the live laptop ensemble, MEME.
When you graduate you will be able to:
display an appropriate degree of technical ability and a mature understanding of the use of technology in creative music applications
display the confidence to create your own work through composition, recording and programming
demonstrate an insight into the culture, theory and practice of a range of electronic music styles.
Module guide
Course content will vary depending on the choice of available options. As a guide, modules might include:
Year one
Fundamentals of Electronic Music
Sound Design and Composition
Laptop Musicianship
Introduction to Creative Music Programming
Notations
Musical New Media
Year two
Production and Recording for Musicians
Creative Music Programming
Music for Digital Media
Acousmatic Composition
Electroacoustic Ensemble
Electronica
Performance Technology
The Practice of Music Education
Year three
Major Project
Enterprise in the Creative Arts
Sensor Technology
Sonic Art
Radiophonica
Advanced Creative Music Programming
Intertextuality in Music
Arts Administration
Principles of Music Therapy
Art, Music and Performance
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Associated careers
The Creative Music Technology degree prepares students for a range of employment opportunities in the digital age. Through its unique synthesis of technological understanding and proficiency, musical awareness and creative application, our graduates are well equipped for careers as sound designers, multimedia artists, programmers, performers, teachers and composers, among others.
Assessment
Assessment is chiefly via coursework collected into portfolios. Portfolios will include compositions, software development, critical evaluations, reports and other musical items and technological products.
200 - 240 tariff points at A Level or equivalent. Required subject(s): A Level Music or Music Technology or related subject at grade B. Applicants may be required to submit a portfolio of work For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
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Advice on courses and careers:-
The Creative Way IAG team provides a specialist service for anyone
interested in finding out about courses and careers in the creative and
cultural industries. We can provide information direct to Students,
Parents/ Carers, Tutors and Careers Advisers via email, phone or organised
workshops and 1 to 1 sessions.
To find out more, visit our IAG page on this site on
http://www.creativeway.org.uk/IAG Or contact one of our career advisers: Matt Ball 07889 001764
m.ball@uel.ac.uk or Sarah
Comerford 07515 051509
s.comerford@uel.ac.uk