MSc Audio and Creative Technology

Year 1

Advanced Research Processes

• Module: 7SW023
• Credits: 20
• Period: 1
• Type: Core
• Locations: alsall Campus

This module provides you with the opportunity to build on your research methods training and practice, applying and reflecting upon research skills that are of value for the dissertation.

Audio and Creative Technology Lab

• Module: 7MU020
• Credits: 40
• Period: 1
• Type: Core
• Locations: alsall Campus

A&CT Lab is a design-led module focused on empowering musicians and other users of audio and audiovisual technologies, illuminating audio and audiovisual related activities, and modelling associated perception and cognition. The module will draw on and draw together diverse areas such as musicology, interaction design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and computing. Students will develop individual or small group projects that devise, investigate and evaluate new tools, instruments or systems in a chosen context (studio, live, education, home, etc.).

Audiovisuality and the Soundtrack

• Module: 7MU007
• Credits: 20
• Period: 1
• Type: Core
• Locations: alsall Campus

The module will draw on film, film sound, audiovisual and Expanded Cinema theory to consider not only film and television, but also a wider range of contexts related to new media. You will consider and explore historical and contemporary practices of composing sound for image and of composing image and sound simultaneously including both fixed media (using software such as Pro Tools and Logic) and real-time generation and processing (using software such as Pd/GEM, Max/Jitter or similar).

Masters Project

• Module: 7SW021
• Credits: 60
• Period: 1
• Type: Core
• Locations: alsall Campus

This module is the culmination of your postgraduate study and allows you to demonstrate the depth of your knowledge and understanding gained through your course. In this module you will be required to undertake an extended independent project negotiated with your nominated supervisor. You will produce either a piece of empirical research, professionally related practice or performance related practice depending on your area of study.

Site and Environment

• Module: 7MU021
• Credits: 20
• Period: 1
• Type: Core
• Locations: alsall Campus

The module will consider how practical sonic and audiovisual outputs can relate to the places in which they are produced and/or consumed, or to which they make reference. The module will initially consider a variety of site-specific works before shifting to explore how virtual environments can overlay, augment and interact physical spaces. It will also examine the specificity of platform (i.e. the hardware and software foundations underlying the technology). Throughout the module, students will acquire frameworks for engaging with physical and virtual spaces and produce public-facing work specific/responsive to or informed by a chosen site or environment.

Events in the Digital World

• Module: 7SW018
• Credits: 20
• Period: 1
• Type: Optional
• Locations: Walsall Campus

This module will explore the ways that arts events can be created, performed and engaged with online. Digital policies have become ever-increasingly needed within arts organisations of every size. This module will investigate the elements of digital policy within the industry and will allow you to experiment and be creative around the idea of the digital dissemination of work and the logistics of creating digital events.

Recording and Recorded Music

• Module: 7MU022
• Credits: 20
• Period: 1
• Type: Optional
• Locations: Walsall Campus

This module will develop the theoretical understanding and practical skills needed to record music. While the module will primarily focus on various methodologies employed in the recording stage of audio production, it will also explore mixdown and mastering. Students will conduct research into genre and equipment-specific working practices, then apply this research to the development of their own innovative recording concepts and techniques.