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MUSC 254 Composition in the Sonic Arts Studio Units: 3.00
Students will explore principles of ethical field recording, analog synthesis, physical tape recording and editing, and multi-track recording and spatialized surround mixing, through exploration of work by composers and sound artists from the early 20th century to present.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Laboratory, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Recommended Experience with digital audio is encouraged but not a prerequisite.
Exclusion MUSC 255/6.0*.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze and critique work in diverse areas of electroacoustic music and sonic arts, including each others’ creations, and be able to aurally recognize music technologies and concepts as employed by specific composers.
- Apply specific early electronic music technologies and compositional approaches (tape recording and editing, analog synthesis) and understand their place in the history of electroacoustic music, sound art and related practices in the music production.
- Learn to creatively use the digital equivalents and extensions of these analog studio practices, with Digital Audio Workstation software and other digital audio tools which allow expression “in the box” (laptop studio production).
- Develop a relationship with the practice of field recording, which is an essential element of electroacoustic music practice, through consideration of the ethics and aesthetics of such work on the land, bringing issues such as Indigenous histories to the fore for students who are often unaware of these things.
- Compose, present, and discuss solo and collaborative works for both fixed media and live improvisation for multi-channel performance, in class concerts.