BSc (Hons) Music Production with Foundation Year Bachelor's degree at the University of Derby

The Creative Studies module encompasses a wide range of skills that will help you look, record and translate visual information. A variety of drawing and/or recording methods will be used ranging from precise drawing techniques to more experimental mark-making or performative skills using a wide range of media; this will be approached through a variety of structured workshops. These will enable you to develop your skills and techniques in areas such as printmaking, life-drawing, still-life, observational drawing, design drawing, collage and photograms, performance and recording. You will also choose an area or movement in art and design or media and/or performing arts that particularly inter

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The interpretation of the visual world around us and the ability to capture and manipulate images through photo-based processes are fundamental skills in creative practice. This module introduces you to a variety of processes and allows you to explore the many possibilities for creating images that technologies provide. The module allows you to explore and create images using the notion of collage, narrative content, sequence and serialisation. Module Learning Outcome Demonstrate an ability to control processes within areas of image capture, manipulation, and/or performance and reproduction Demonstrate an ability to use relevant technologies for creating meaningful images or recording perfor

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This module will introduce you to the fundamentals of performance-making through text, devising, design and in the disciplines of music and drama. Through individual practice the module will encourage the exploration of how performance is created reviewing and exploring key practitioners and texts.

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This module allows you to consolidate and develop a range of subject-specific and transferrable skills by designing and realising a project based on a specific brief. This will allow you to gain skills relevant to your chosen programme but will also enable you to consider how you can work with students from other subjects and disciplines to create innovative and creative approaches to a particular project brief. While you will be able to exercise a considerable degree of freedom over the way you interpret the project brief, you will be supported and guided in your work through a series of seminars, workshops and tutorials. Module learning outcomes On successful completion of the module, you

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This module is designed to encourage the exploration and development of practical skills through the combination of various visual media, including but not limited to graphic design, photography, illustration, fine art, and 3D modelling. Students will engage with the creative process, experimenting with interdisciplinary techniques to expand their artistic vocabulary and deepen their understanding of visual communication. Through workshops, critiques, and practical projects, students will refine their technical abilities and conceptual thinking, preparing them for further study or practice in creative arts disciplines. Module learning outcomes On successful completion of the module, you will

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This module will introduce you to the academic skills needed for study at undergraduate level and enable you to plan for your future study and career, including research skills, critical thinking, self-reflection, and independent and collaborative working. In doing so, it aims to set the groundwork for your success on the remainder of your programme. Module learning outcomes On successful completion of the module, you will be able to: Identify key resources and techniques applicable in the context of university-level research Communicate knowledge, understanding and arguments effectively Reflect on learning and identify areas of strength and weaknesses Demonstrate the ability to utilise a ra

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Opportunities to investigate multiple perspectives in musical design, that have impacted upon the composition of commercial music, are offered within this module. The ideologies of dominant styles and antecedents will be investigated and you will be encouraged to directly participate in creative and re-creative activities particularly in areas less familiar. You will explore theoretical constructs in music, their relevance and significance to the modern commercial sector, considering expression, aesthetic, stylistic and contextual aspects of your own creative work. Module learning outcomes Identify creative potential and consider novel possibilities by confronting, exploring and assimilating

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This module will provide an introduction to the academic study of popular music and to the discourses of popular music culture. It will supply you with the conceptual tools for engaging with popular music in a scholarly fashion. Familiarity with these critical perspectives and debates will enable you to build an understanding of the historical, cultural, social, economic, technological, and aesthetic developments that have shaped popular music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This module will familiarise you with key issues, theories, and approaches as it focuses on how popular music texts are created, circulated, and consumed. It will explore the relationship between the music,

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Modern music recording and production is a highly technical process involving sophisticated integration of technology and musicianship. Successful producers maintain both a clear working knowledge of technology as well as a fundamental analytical understanding of music, instrumentation, associated terminology and language of communication, and critical listening skills. This module allows the development of music theory knowledge and production skills appropriate for application in a modern recording and performance environment. You will explore fundamental production techniques and applicable music theory through analysis, listening and re-creative technical activities within common musical

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Studio Production Techniques enables you to develop practical and technical knowledge of modern recording studio practice. The module provides an opportunity to manage a recording studio session, explore and apply fundamental recording concepts with confidence, and deploy core post-production techniques. Utilising industry-standard software you will acquire understanding of the operational features employed in computer-based recording systems. Interpersonal skills are developed within the module through group work activities resulting in a portfolio of recorded material. Module learning outcomes On successful completion of the module, you will be able to: Demonstrate team-working and time-ma

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This module aims to enable the you to develop your creative awareness, aesthetic sensibilities and production techniques through the composition of solutions to a variety of given and negotiated musical scenarios. Incorporating an exploration of composition as both a creative and re-creative activity, study will focus upon the theory and practice relating to production, instrumentation, form and arrangement associated with significant commercial musical genres considering authenticity, listener coherence and the graphical representation of musical structure. You are encouraged to draw upon your own experiences of music performing and listening, participating in collaborative music making and

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The music industry is constantly evolving to meet the challenges that advancing technology and the changing needs of the music consumer brings. Consequently, it is essential to have a clear understanding of this business. This module explores this and associated industries and develops a comprehensive understanding of the business and potential careers for the music graduate. This module will also provide the opportunity to relate academic knowledge and vocational skills to the professional work environment. This module has a research focus for the essentials that are needed to understand and work in the music industry.

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This largely practical module aims to provide the next generation of sound composers and music producers with the necessary appreciation of multi-channel audio techniques and concomitant perceptual effects. Virtual reality ‘sound-and-vision’ artificial environments are proliferating in usages such as cinema, education, computer games, data representation, and acoustic modelling, providing many new opportunities for virtual reality audio content-producers

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This module forms part of the placement year typically completed between the second and final stage of a degree programme. The module provides a framework for the development of reflective skills appropriate to all areas of professional practice including for example aspects of problem solving such as objective setting, planning, negotiating, demonstrating, and reflecting. The emphasis in this module is on the analysis and evaluation of work completed within the organisation and future employability planning. During the module students will develop a reflective portfolio where they record the skills, knowledge and experience developed during the placement experience and evaluate how this wil

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The module takes the form of a structured, student-managed commercially orientated project enabling development of personal creative interests and abilities, and provides students with the opportunity to convey personal expression and imagination in practical music making through employing appropriate technical and interpretative means. The musical and technical objectives of the project are negotiated as appropriate with the tutor and need to be of relevance to the experience and expertise of the student as a distinct component of their final year studies consolidating the development of an individual music personality through advanced technical skills and deeper levels of interpretive insi

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The Research Project module is a significant element of specialist degree programmes, requiring initiative, resourcefulness, time management and professionalism. The module aims to develop students’ abilities to work independently, objectively researching an individual topic in appropriate academic depth using relevant concepts and techniques. The process is intended to allow students to develop skills particularly relevant to a career in their specialist area, demonstrating how knowledge and understanding interconnects with other disciplines in the arts, humanities, social and physical sciences as appropriate. Students will collect, analyse and apply information, and exhibit skills such as

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