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MUS-20082 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 21 December 2024

MUS-20082 - Augmenting Live Performance
Coordinator: Tim Canfer
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 5
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733147

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

In this module you will have the opportunity to learn leading-edge modern live music performance techniques, to build your own digital performance devices and to apply them live. You will explore current and historic issues in the area of liveness and learn the semiotics of performance. This is our critically engaged, digital performance playground; come join us!

Aims
To establish an awareness of liveness as a critical factor in modern music performance event production.
To explore current and historical performance and production practice in the context of musical expression and semiotics.
To develop the music production concepts and techniques needed to augment a live performance event.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate a critical awareness of liveness and musical-visual agency in modern music performance events: 1
Critically analyse examples of creative practice showing different approaches to liveness and musical-visual agency in modern music performance events: 1
Apply music production concepts and techniques in augmenting a live performance event: 2
Demonstrate an awareness of musical-visual agency in augmenting a live performance event: 2

Study hours

Active Learning Hours:
12 hours of lectures, seminars and demonstrations
12 hours of workshops
6 hours of small group tutorials
Independent Study Hours:
30 hours of preparation for workshops, group work and tutorials
90 hours of preparation for the summative assessment

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Report weighted 40%
Case Study Report


2: Performance weighted 60%
Augmented Live Performance


The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 21 December 2024