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Music as Noise: Making Sound Art (MUSI40094)
HonoursPoints: 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 this subject, students should be able to:
- understand and critically evaluate to a sophisticated level 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;
- demonstrate the ability to evaluate and criticise the different ways in which people write about noise as music.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject students should possess:
- a capacity to make critical, informed and sophisticated responses to new musical ideas, methodologies and theoretical frameworks
- 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: 31 January 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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
A short creative recording project
| End of semester | 30% |
A piece of written work reflecting on the student's creative project
| End of semester | 40% |
3 short written projects (3 x 10% each)
| From Week 4 to Week 11 | 30% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2024
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Last updated: 31 January 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 Graduate Diploma in Music Informal specialisation Composition Informal specialisation Performance Informal specialisation Musicology/Ethnomusicology - 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: 31 January 2024