Desktop Music Production 2 - AIM2214

Assessment 1: Other

Other

Assessment 2: Project Work

Produce a piece of music (4-5 minutes) that demonstrates creative application of taught production techniques.

Project Work

Assessment 1: Project Work

A task (e.g. sample-pack, song, short piece, remix etc.) demonstrating use of taught production techniques.

Building on the skills and knowledge acquired in Desktop Music Production 1 or AFM1208 Technology for Music, this module will provide further study of the techniques of computer-based music production. Techniques examined in-depth will include synthesis, sequencing, sampling, editing, processing and mixing techniques, as well as their creative application. Issues of pre/post production and arrangement will also be explored. You will also continue to study musical arrangement within a computer-based production context. You will explore these topics through practical technical and creative work that will improve your techno-fluency and abilities in detailed critical listening. Seminars will support the application of production techniques and ideas.

School of Arts and Humanities

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Burgess, Richard J. The art of music production: the theory and practice, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013.
Cunningham, Mark, Brian Eno, and Alan Parsons. Good vibrations: a history of record production, Sanctuary, London, 1998.
Katz, Robert A. Mastering audio: the art and the science, Focal Press, Abingdon, 2015.
Izhaki, Roey. Mixing audio: concepts, practices and tools, Focal, Amsterdam;London;, 2013..doi:10.4324/9780240525891.
Moorefield, Virgil. The producer as composer: shaping the sounds of popular music, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass; London, 2010.
Pejrolo, Andrea, and Richard DeRosa. Acoustic and MIDI orchestration for the contemporary composer, Focal Press/Elsevier, Oxford, 2007.
Roads, Curtis. The computer music tutorial, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass; London, 1996.

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Music

AIM2214 - Desktop Music Production 2

Desktop Music Production 2

will have an understanding of how music production techniques can shape musical materials.

be able to create sophisticated musical materials, productions and arrangements using a range of learned techniques.

be able to work with an increasing degree of independence, making increasingly sophisticated use of a range of resources (e.g. manuals / on-line tutorials etc).

will have an understanding of the principles of synthesis, sequencing, sampling, editing, processing and mixing.

will have an understanding of different contemporary and historical approaches to production.

be able to use technology creatively and with sensitivity to musical style/context.

be able to employ critical listening in order to evaluate technical and creative results.