Music as Noise: Making Sound Art (MUSI30246)

Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5Not available in 2024

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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 personal way, in both written and creative platforms.
  • the ability to communicate effectively.

Last updated: 9 April 2025

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: 9 April 2025

Assessment

DescriptionTimingPercentage

A short creative recording project

  • 5 minutes
During the assessment period40%

A piece of written work reflecting on the student's creative project

  • 1600 words
During the assessment period30%

3 short written projects (worth 10% each), due in weeks 4, 8 and 12

  • 300 words (each)
From Week 4 to Week 1230%

Last updated: 9 April 2025

Dates & times

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Last updated: 9 April 2025

Further information

Last updated: 9 April 2025