School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Principal Studies: Contemporary Music CD Project 6
  • Unit Code

    MUS3132
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Michael Bernard EASTMAN

Description

This unit will concentrate on the completion of an original CD that will represent the culmination of the student's undergraduate studies. The unit will continue the development of the individual performance skills with an emphasis on presentation, critical performance evaluation and critical hearing skills as related to recording, mixing and mastering sound. Students will continue their instrumental studies and performance analysis to further improve their improvisational, interpretive and technical skills.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from MUS3131

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and program the automation features available in advanced audio software.
  2. Analyse the issues associated with producing sound in a specified genre or situation.
  3. Comply with current OSH standards for the music industry.
  4. Demonstrate advanced skills when recording, editing and mixing sound for CD production.
  5. Demonstrate instrumental technique (on their principle instrument) at technical level three.

Unit Content

  1. Advanced editing for music arranging and enhancement.
  2. Advanced recording and mixing techniques.
  3. Advanced software and hardware routing.
  4. Bounce to disk, multi-takes, multi-arrangements.
  5. Interpretive and aesthetic techniques appropriate to the Contemporary Music genre.
  6. Mastering design - selection of appropriate processors with a full understanding of options.
  7. Mastering recordings.
  8. Mixing techniques for a variety of musical styles.
  9. Music and other forms of audio production.
  10. Overdubbing: opening the artist's potential and choosing the best take.
  11. Technical studies - Intermediate Scales, arpeggios and sight reading exercises.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Instrumental lessons, Workshops, Tutorials.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
PerformancePrincipal Study Performance
ProjectCD Production100%
Creative WorkPerformance Critique
TestCompetency Level 3 (Scales and Arpeggios)

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Principal Studies: Contemporary Music CD Project 6
  • Unit Code

    MUS3132
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Michael Bernard EASTMAN

Description

This unit will concentrate on the completion of an original CD that will represent the culmination of the student's undergraduate studies. The unit will continue the development of the individual performance skills with an emphasis on presentation, critical performance evaluation and critical hearing skills as related to recording, mixing and mastering sound. Students will continue their instrumental studies and performance analysis to further improve their improvisational, interpretive and technical skills.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from MUS3131

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and program the automation features available in advanced audio software.
  2. Analyse the issues associated with producing sound in a specified genre or situation.
  3. Comply with current OSH standards for the music industry.
  4. Demonstrate advanced skills when recording, editing and mixing sound for CD production.
  5. Demonstrate instrumental technique (on their principle instrument) at technical level three.

Unit Content

  1. Advanced editing for music arranging and enhancement.
  2. Advanced recording and mixing techniques.
  3. Advanced software and hardware routing.
  4. Bounce to disk, multi-takes, multi-arrangements.
  5. Interpretive and aesthetic techniques appropriate to the Contemporary Music genre.
  6. Mastering design - selection of appropriate processors with a full understanding of options.
  7. Mastering recordings.
  8. Mixing techniques for a variety of musical styles.
  9. Music and other forms of audio production.
  10. Overdubbing: opening the artist's potential and choosing the best take.
  11. Technical studies - Intermediate Scales, arpeggios and sight reading exercises.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Instrumental lessons, Workshops, Tutorials.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
PerformancePrincipal Study Performance
ProjectCD Production100%
Creative WorkPerformance Critique
TestCompetency Level 3 (Scales and Arpeggios)

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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