Modules
This module creates the opportunity for you to consider the nature of the performed musical event and associated professional practices. You will develop skills to analyse the evolution of the performance event, the development of a musician’s performance persona and the impact of video technology in the field. You will also reflect on your existing skillset and hone your professional competencies and skills in readiness for careers in the creative industries. You will consider how best to promote yourself, through the development of an employability portfolio most appropriate to their career trajectory, which may include, developing websites; content and profile creation for the use of social media, and writing and developing curriculum vitae and cover letters.
This module aims to introduce you to practical aspects of industry standard session work, focussing on the skills needed to become a working musician or engineer, either in recording or live context, typically via a simulated real session environment.
This module gives you the opportunity to identify and independently pursue a suitable research area and integrate this within your own portfolio of work. You will apply appropriate methods and theories within your own writing style to undertake a substantial body of musical composition within your own area of specific interest.
This self-directed module allows students to initiate and develop their own major project ideas appropriate to their discipline of study. Students at this point in their studies are often very focussed on their ultimate work aspirations, and this module helps them to gain 'graduate trajectory' to enable them to better move into their chosen profession as seamlessly as possible when they have finished their studies.
In this module you be guided in your development of a professional regime of practice on your instrument or voice through a series of masterclasses. You will focus on the development of an advanced performative and professional self-awareness culminating in a professionally aware performance.
This module aims to introduce you to practical aspects of industry standard session work, focussing on the skills needed to become a working musician in a live context, typically via a simulated real session environment.