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Music as Noise: Making Sound Art (MUSI30246)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Overview
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The notion of noise as potential music has been an enduring preoccupation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Various contexts for noise-based music include performance works, recordings, installation artworks/sound sculpture, radiophonic works and online. This subject looks at noise art's development from the Futurists through to Cage's and Oliveros's experimentalism, to contemporary postmodern sound art and into the current post-postmodern era. Students will learn how to create a short sound art work in a style of their choosing, and to contextualise their creative approach within the genre's history.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the subject, students should be able to:
- understand and critically evaluate the history and aesthetics of the phenomenon of noise-as-music
- demonstrate basic skills in sound art creation
- articulate and situate their creative endeavours in this area
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, students should possess:
- a capacity to apply and extend existing skills and knowledge to new expression in creative musical practice.
- the ability to engage with new ideas and respond to them in a thoughtful, critical and presonal way, in both written and creative platforms.
- The ability to communicate effectively.
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Assessment
Additional details
- A short creative recording project (of 5 mins), due at the end of semester (40%)
- A (1,600 word) piece of written work reflecting on the student's creative project, due at the end of semester (30%)
- 3 short written projects (300 words each, worth 10% each), due in weeks 4, 8 and 12 (30% total)
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Linda Kouvaras Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising one 1-hour lecture per week and one 1-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age (Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT Ashgate, 2013)
Other readings, available through Readings Online via LMS
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Diploma in Music Informal specialisation Performance/ Composition/ Musicology/ Ethnomusicology Specialisation Breadth Track Popular Music - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 27 April 2024