Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module students should be able to:
- Demonstrate detailed engagement with stylistic, aesthetic, and artistic concepts and practices in contemporary music composition and/or performance, situating either your own compositional practice, or that of chosen composers/performers, in a broader context.
- Draw critically on relevant published scores, recordings, research or primary sources, and present the findings of independent work with clarity and refinement.
Indicative Module Content:
1. Introduction & analytical tools
2. Race in new music
3. Appropriation and/or using pre-existing sources
4. The New Discipline
5. Mainstream contemporary music
6. The internet and Ai as creative tools
7. Gender & sexuality in new music
8. Group feedback session-presenting work in progress
9. Minimal music & sonic healing
10. Artistic voice
11. New music and the environment
12. Revision class & group feedback session