BATH SPA UNIVERSITY / Courses BA (Hons) Creative Music Technology
Creative Music Technology
UCAS CODE: J931 Institution code: B20 Typical offers:
Creative Music Technology fuses composition and the creative exploration and use of audio technologies and wider digital media. Our programme seeks to extend your individual creative voice, your technical knowledge and develop a range of skills required by the creative industries. Why choose this course? Our programme is clearly focused on the creative application of technology within a wide range of music, sound, broadcast and multimedia contexts. Our students enthusiastically share a common commitment to exploring and harnessing personal creative outcomes and developing innovative approaches to their work. You’ll no doubt be obsessively interested in music technology. You’ll work and learn with students who share your commitment, and be taught by staff team with very high levels of specialist professional practice and expertise. You will have access to superb resources and facilities, and benefit from being part of a vibrant community of students and staff collaborating across subject boundaries. About the course Current and emerging techniques and technologies are studied within the context of their creative applications. Intended primarily for aspiring creative users of these technologies, the programme is ear-led. We do not describe music in ‘traditional notation’ terms. Though many students will
have high levels of instrumental skills and accompanying theory, others will view software and hardware as their ‘instrument’. You will be encouraged to question assumptions, work across media, formulate independent judgement in an environment that supports and values personal creative development. In the first two years the modules are compulsory and create a shared content from which to navigate the final year. Year 3 offers several pathways from which you may select a specialised route, and you will be supported in managing a larger scale project of your choice. Across a three-year trajectory, you will acquire a rich understanding of both music technology and interdisciplinary multimedia. Sample modules: Year 1: Synthesis and Sampling; Creative Practice; Critical Theory; Sound Design for Moving Image. Year 2: Digital Audio Techniques; Sonic Art; Digital Signal Processing; Multimedia Studio; Professional Development.
Year 3; Devised Project, Game Audio, Audio Programming, Interactive Multimedia in Performance, Composer Project, Composition for Broadcast Media, Production Techniques, Audio Post for Moving Image, Sonic Performance. Careers We aim to develop creative and technically skilled graduates for employment within the composition, recording, entertainment and new media industries. We don’t consider ourselves a programme of ‘training’, but we encourage students to be clearly focused on developing a wide range of employability skills. Employment possibilities include production, performance, composition, recording, software development, game, mobile and web technologies, specialist publishing, education… it’s a long and ever changing range of opportunities relevant to a mobile employment landscape in which self-employment and entrepreneurship are likely to feature strongly.
280–340 UCAS Tariff points including A-level Music Technology at minimum grade B or equivalent award in Music Technology or a closely related subject. If your application supports the above criteria you are likely to be invited to interview. Your interview will require you to access an audio portfolio to demonstrate current experience and future potential. See page 25 Location: Newton Park campus Length: 3 years full-time Tuition fee (2013): £9,000 per year (subject to annual inflationary increase) No. Of applicants (2012): 285 No. Of places (2012): 36 Assessment: Largely through coursework, such as portfolios of creative and practical work supported by some written evaluation. Some timed or multiple choice examinations. More information: www.bathspa.ac.uk
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