Music Technology

Course Structure

1. Advanced Audio Skills
2. Music Technology Project
3. Composition Techniques
4. Advanced Accoustics and Psychoacoustics
5. Found Image, Found Sound
6. Popular and World Music
7. Collaborative Project
8. Music in Education
9. Cinema for the Ears: Composing with Sound and Space
10. Dissertation
11. focus on the use, development and implementation of technology within the wider musical context
12. provide analysis and also take into account major musical developments over the past few decades
13. provide knowledge and skills in technological and/or practice-based research, in the form of advanced application of music technology ability and outlook
14. give you experience of current research practices in various areas of critical and analytical thinking surrounding music
15. develop your work through individual enquiry, as well as sharing and critiquing ideas through group seminars, designed to provide a forum for debate, as well as practical instruction
16. draw on staff interests and expertise in various areas of music technology and provide significant opportunity for collaborative and interdisciplinary work, taking into account other arts subjects at Medway and Canterbury
17. allow for the combined development of generic and subject-specific acumen: a module in Dissertation and Research Methods, leading to the development of an independent research proposal, will run in parallel with the Programming and Production Techniques modules. Thus you will develop your own advanced use of technology and software within the wider contemporary musical context, including recent histories, key concepts and aesthetics
18. let your technological output live in the real world. To this end, it will be expected that you demonstrate your work in the public domain, send work to postgraduate conferences and help with staging events at the University of Kent.
19. a systematic understanding and a critical awareness of key issues and/or new insights in music technology, much of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of research and practice
20. a comprehensive understanding of techniques and hardware/software systems relating to your own advanced practice
21. a critical appreciation of the wider cultural context for music technology.
22. the ability to critically evaluate and analyse music technology, using specific terminology and employing a range of methodologies
23. the ability to deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively, developing appropriate and innovative solutions
24. the ability to continue to advance your knowledge and understanding and to develop new skills to a high level.
25. producing, developing and exploring music technology systems (synthesis, sound processing, spatialisation, recording, etc), demonstrating self-direction and originality in your own practice
26. working on a large-scale music technology project over an extended period of time, drawing on existing skills and developing new ones
27. presenting and disseminating work to specialist and non-specialists audiences using appropriate terminology.
28. the ability to exercise initiative and personal responsibility
29. the ability to develop clear concepts and ideas when presented with complex situations and conflicting information
30. the capacity to communicate and express arguments with conviction, referring to key issues and relevant questions.