Course Description:
This upper-level undergraduate course is an introduction to electroacoustic music repertoire, composition techniques, and overall creative process. Students will learn through hands-on experience, technical skills development, listening exercises, critical listening and analysis. The course explores self-reflective topic discussions to help develop entrepreneurship skills, personal artistic identity and allow students to create a personalized creative toolbox.
Learning Outcomes:
- Develop sound design and electroacoustic composition skills
- Develop a personal creative toolbox and workflow
- Produce compelling and personal sounds
- Outline personal artistic identity and creative process
- Develop effective presentation skills
- Adopt musicianship skills to identify common composition techniques, and threads in acoustic and electroacoustic music
- Implement critical thinking skills, develop the ability to articulate thoughts and participate in discussions
- Develop active listening skills