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Music as Noise: Making Sound Art (MUSI30246)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5Not available in 2024
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: 11 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: 11 April 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
A short creative recording project
| During the assessment period | 40% |
A piece of written work reflecting on the student's creative project
| During the assessment period | 30% |
3 short written projects (worth 10% each), due in weeks 4, 8 and 12
| From Week 4 to Week 12 | 30% |
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2024
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Last updated: 11 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 Bachelor of Music Course Diploma in Music Breadth Track Popular Music - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Science
- 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.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 11 April 2024