Participation and Engagement Tasks:

This component of the class is designed to give a broad overview of the historical use of new technologies in composition, to stimulate discussion and to extend student learning in technical areas.

Listening Task: Students are expected to listen to one or more of the works listed for the week in question. Students write a brief forum post reflecting on the discussion question for that week. The responses should be 200-400 words long. 

Composing Task: Students are expected to post a link to their in-class work that week, demonstrating the techniques taught. The exported work can be as short as 10 seconds. 

Collaborative Feedback Task:  

Work with an assigned group of 3-5 students. Present your Formative Skills Assessment project-in-progress, and provide constructive feedback to fellow group members. You will submit an individual reflection on the feedback session, describing how you will implement the feedback received.

Formative Skills Assessment: 

Compose a 1-minute sound work using only the audio samples provided or recorded in class. You will also be required to reflect on the work during a brief informal discussion with your tutor, in class before submission.

Assessment Detail:

This assessment will allow you to demonstrate your proficiency with recorded sound. Using the samples provided (samples will be made available at the start of Semester), create a short audio-based composition of 1-minute duration displaying skills learned so far. Your work may be in any style, but should show knowledge of basic audio editing, arrangement and mixing, sampling, audio effects, etc. and draw influence from at least one existing electroacoustic work.

Students are required to engage in a brief discussion with their tutor on their work-in-progress, ahead of the submission date. This will take place during tutorials in the preceding weeks. Typically, your tutor will listen to your work and ask you about your creative or technical choices to date. This is also the opportunity to receive feedback on the work.

Creative Audio Assignment: Work-In-Progress Submission:  

Deliver a 2-minute excerpt of your work-in-progress for the class listening party in Week 13. It is not expected that your track will be complete by this point, but the presented excerpt should be a strong draft. Accompanying this, you will provide a 100-200 word program note to be displayed to the class while your track is played. The program note should include a working title, a description of the artistic goals for the work, and a brief description of how it will be improved before your final submission.

Creative Audio Assignment: 

Compose an original creative audio work of 3-6 minutes and submit supporting documentation. 

Assessment Detail:

Students choose from two possible formats for this composition task:

Option 1: Compose an electroacoustic sound work of between 3 - 6 minutes in length. This may include a live instrumental or vocal component, but if so should be accompanied by a score. 

Option 2: Compose up to 6 miniature electroacoustic pieces between 45-60 seconds in length, with the works tied together by a central theme. The collective duration should amount to at least 3 minutes.

Students are also required to submit their complete DAW project file with all external sound files included (see Canvas page for more information), as well as evidence of at least 3 original sounds/recordings utilised.