BA (Hons) Music Performance & Production Bachelor's degree at East London

This module is taken by all music students at UEL and teaches you the basics of sound recording in our studios. The module enables you to collaborate with students from our other BA music courses.

This module is split into the Music Production and the Music Cultures section. It's a six hours module taught over two days by different lecturers. Music production teaches you the use of a DAW (mainly Logic Pro) and how to combine audio recordings with MIDI sequencing. The Cultures aspect of this module investigates genres and styles, and explores your identity. This is a core module for all UG music students at UEL.

This module teaches you basic music theory (rudiments of music) and looks at your playing/singing techniques and keyboard skills. Guided listening to original songs and their cover versions to help you understand music theory by focusing on differences in pitch, rhythm, structure, timbre, and texture.

This module is also split into the Music Production and the Music Cultures sections. It's a six hours module taught over two days by different lecturers. Mixing and Mastering will teach you how to make your demos and music sound professional, and how to prepare your music for a commercial release. This is a key module and we expect your music to sound professional from here onwards. Cultures looks at music in the social and historical context and is taught to all UEL music students.

This module explores improvisation and collaboration in music. It covers areas not addressed in other modules, including: 20th–21st Century Western Art Music, Music from Non-Western Traditions, Free Improvisation, Electronic Experimental Music. Students will also develop: Collaboration Techniques such as working with graphic scores, instruction pieces, modal and free improvisation, Performance Skills like creating musical textures (e.g., drones, pulses), synchronising and un-synchronising with o

This module is for all UEL music students and will provide you with the opportunity to identify the skills, competencies and experience required for success in a range of potential future career areas. This may include entrepreneurship, employability, critical and creative thinking, and the techniques of your specialism. You will work with UEL Career Zone and formulate a working CV, you will learn professional etiquette and attitude. Furthermore we will look into performance techniques, technica

This module establishes your skills in composition and a solo performance. You will be using advanced musical concepts and techniques to create an original composition for solo performance.

This module is split into songwriting and the music cultures sections. It's a six hours module taught over two days by different lecturers. In songwriting you will learn lyric writing, harmony, melody, rhythm, phrasing, structure, production with logic. The cultures section of this module explores music, sound and meaning.

In this module you will create a public project, which can be composing for media in collaboration with students from games, or media with the aim to showcase your work in a public setting at the end of the semester. Technical aspects of this module include sound creation (synthesis) and music compositional techniques for media, such as adverts, games, stings. Programme and empathetic music.

This module establishes your skills in composition and group performance. Composition, improvisation, multidisciplinary performance, non-conventional techniques. Using advanced musical concepts and techniques to collaboratively create two original compositions for a group performance.

This module will provide you with the opportunity to apply skills, competencies and experience required for successful development and a range of potential future career areas. The focus is on areas of enterprise and employability for professional life. This may include creating business plans, planning, and producing events, pitching, and presenting project ideas. The music industry – music release plan, digital distribution, artwork and social media presence. You will also engage with UEL's ca

In this module you will extend your exploration of creative practice in relation to people and places, communities, and the public sphere. You will apply creative production work in your discipline with consideration of its connections to social and political issues. You will develop approaches to audiences and participants exploring the challenges of engaging diverse groups. Alongside professional creative activities you will further build understanding of ethical practice in relation to commun

In this module you will collaborate with students from other courses in creative projects that model professional practice and introduce multidisciplinary practice. You may collaborate on projects with disciplines within the department, school, and wider University. Collaborative projects in this module will develop a final creative output, which may include public performances, productions, compositions or installations.

In this module you will explore the key skills and approaches of entrepreneurial practice including project proposals, pitching, event management, producing, and live events. You will be introduced to market and audience research and development, programming, curation and evaluation, as well as artist liaison. You will explore approaches to establishing a creative identity including social media and online presence for networking and promotion.

In this module you will develop and apply advanced skills in professional creative activities to project work in your discipline. You will explore subject-specific methods of making, developing and presenting your work with close reference to industry standards. Live electronic music – solo / Creating and performing an original solo piece for instrument/voice and live electronics (using software such as Ableton Live or Logic Pro - Live Loops).

In this module you will use research methods to explore a chosen topic related to creative practice, developing a review of literature or relevant practice-research resources to build an independently defined project. There are two pathway options within this module; a practice-research approach in which you will undertake your research using making and doing in combination with reading, analysis and writing; and a written research approach in which your work will build towards an extended piece

This module builds on from your work in Research Project 1 to continue to develop your advanced creative practice and research skills. You will extend your ability to pursue an independent project idea culminating in an outcome specified by your course. Through this process you will activate rigorous approaches to delve into and articulate concepts, methodologies and theories in relation to your course disciplinary specialism.

In this module, you will deliver a performance project within your specialist area. Supported by your tutors and peers, you will create, develop, refine, rehearse and publicly present work that showcases your skills and creativity. Having established skills, techniques and approaches throughout your degree, and in Final Performance Project 1, you will draw on your advanced abilities to produce work that will form part of your showcase. Live electronic music – group / collaboratively creating two

This module will provide you with the opportunity to apply the full range of skills, competencies and experience required for successful development in a range of potential future careers. Students will advance the areas identified at level 5 for their own personal professional development (including emotional, social, physical, cultural and cognitive intelligences) through taught and workshop activity. All students will undertake a professional practice placement of 20-50 hours to build their t