The nature of the assessed work submitted will be decided through discussion with the module tutors. The possibilities for the work undertaken will depend on interests / skills of the students taking the module. Students will be able to undertake a combination of performance, composition and programming roles, and these should be clearly defined in the commentary. A commentary will lay out the issues tackled, the design process and the individual student's contribution to the group.

Students will collaborate on the production of new pieces for live electronics and solo instrument / voice / small ensemble, which will be performed at the start of summer term (date tbc). In addition, in their independent work, first year students should demonstrate learning outcomes A1-12.

have practical experience on how acoustic instruments and sources can be digitally processed and how human performers can interact with computers to generate creative and cohesive musical results.

understand the potential of using interactive and real-time computer systems to aid and augment musical performance and composition.

be able to utilise live electronics tools and techniques in practice and demonstrate competence in the creation and realisation of aesthetically developed musical/sonic materials.

have good familiarity with the repertoire of contemporary music with live electronics.

have developed an understanding of the main techniques and applications of live electronics in performance, composition and/or programming.This module will be taught jointly by Federico Reuben and Martin Suckling Module learning outcomesīy the end of the taught part of the project all students should: Provisional topics (these may change in advance of the module):

You will therefore be expected to collaborate with your peers and contribute as performer, composer and programmer as your skills and interests allow. No prior experience with programming is assumed – Federico's environment is designed to be accessible to the novice – but there will be plenty of scope for getting your coding hands dirty for those who wish to.Įach week we will take a different topic, examine an example from the repertoire, unpick how the live electronics work, and workshop your own group creative responses to these techniques. The basis for working with live electronics will be Federico Reuben's Radicals system, which runs in the open source Supercollider environment. create new music using these techniques.investigate how a variety of live electronic techniques work.explore the use of live electronics in recent repertoire.Olly Coates, Zoe Martlew, Kerry Andrew, Nadia Sirota, Owen Pallett, Pekka Kuusisto etc.) Live electronics, once something of a novelty requiring specialist hardware, is now within easy reach of non-specialists and their laptops increasingly it is a standard feature of contemporary music events and features heavily amongst the new generation of solo performer-composer artists (e.g. For composers, performers, programmers – and people who combine these roles! Module will run Occurrence Martin SucklingĮxploration and creation of music for instrument(s) / voice(s) and live electronics. Performance, composition and programming with live electronics - MUS00132C

Electronics and live performer