Electroacoustic Composition 3 (U02752)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : ACE-3-U02752

An introduction to the creation and performance of electroacoustic music. The course combines applied studio work and electroacoustic music performance praxis with a contextual study of both the historical and aesthetic background of electroacoustic music. Grounding in basic web page creation in HTML will also be given. The numbers admitted to this course are limited.

? Keywords : electroacoustic composition music

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Composition 2

? Costs : Purchase of recording and backup media.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Music, (School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Schedule A)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 16 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 5 hour(s) per week for 1 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	14:00	15:50	Central

? Additional Class Information : Seminars in Weeks 1-5 and 7-11. Other required attendance - electroacoustic music performance (diffusion) workshop.

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

+ Understand the historical and aesthetic contexts of electroacoustic music.
+ Produce creative work in the electroacoustic medium.
+ Operate an electroacoustic music studio with technical confidence and overcome the common technical problems which may present themselves therein.
+ Perform electroacoustic music on a typical multi-loudspeaker diffusion system.
+ Present sound and visual work on the web through a strong grasp of basic HTML.

Assessment Information

- One electroacoustic composition, not less than 5 minutes in length, presented on audio CD [20%]
- One electroacoustic composition, not less than 10 minutes in length, presented on audio CD [40%]
- Final electroacoustic music performance [20%]
- Individual web-based soundwalk project [20%]