Sound creation and composition
Objectives
a) Develop technical skills and tools for musical composition for instrumental ensembles;
b) Develop musical composition techniques and strategies according to different genres (e.g. contemporary and experimental; electroacoustic music; soundscape; jazz, pop-rock, songwriting)
c) Know the implication of musical writing in performance;
d) Master fundamental techniques and practices of music creation in the studio, as well as their appropriacy in diverse musical media and genres
e) Acquire technical skills and tools for sound and music creation in the studio, directed to specific media and diffusion as well as directed to particular functions (e.g. television, cinema, advertising, performing arts)
f) To experiment with creation in the context of sound spaces (e.g. soundscape, ecology).
General characterization
Code
02113165
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Isabel Maria Antunes Pires
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
- COLLINS, N. (2020). Handmade Electronic Music. Routledge.
- DYSON, F. (2009). Sounding New Media. Immersion and Embodyment in the Arts and Culture. University of California Press.
- Han, J. (2919), An Introduction to Modern Music Creation: Music Composition and Production with Technology, LLC.
- MAZZOLA, G.; PARK, J. & THALMANN, F. (2011). Musical Creativity, Strategies and Tools in Composition and Improvisation. Springer.
- Adler, S. (2016). The study of orchestration. W. W. Norton & Company.
- Collins, D. (2012) The Act of Musical composition: studies in the creative process, Ashgate.
- Braae, N., Hansen, K. A. (2019). On popular music and its unruly entanglements. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Groth, S. K., & Schulze, H. (2020). The Bloomsbury handbook of sound art. Bloomsbury.
- Droumeva, & Aboujieb. (2019). Sound, Media, Ecology. Springer.
- Zager, M. (2015). Writing music for commercials : television, radio, and new media. Rowman and Littlefield.
Teaching method
Theoretical-practical classes. Presentation and discussion of techniques and theories related to the field of study; listening and discussion of sound art and musical works; creative practice in laboratory and collective discussion of the works of the students.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - Public presentation of the students' projects(20%), Realization of two projects (sound art and/or musical composition)(65%), Successful completion of practical exercises in class(15%)
Subject matter
1.Composing music for various media (e.g. film, radio, advertising and television);
2.Fundamentals of music composition and instrumentation, including extended techniques;
3.Music creation and experimentation;
4.Electronic music;
5.Practices of creation in a popular music genre (e.g. Jazz or pop-rock).
6.Soundscape and sound ecology
7.Sound spaces and performance;