KMB109 Creative Practice in Music

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Overview

This unit establishes a community of practice with an emphasis on collaborative music-making that you can draw on to inform your own work. It introduces you to a range of music contexts, concepts and techniques to help you better understand your practice and that of your peers, and to be better positioned and equipped to respond as appropriate. Successful musicians need to form and negotiate their creative practice within a complex professional environment. They need critical, technical, conceptual and communication skills to understand their music in context and how it can be connected to an audience. This unit introduces you to the fundamental concepts and approaches to develop your practical skills in the creation and presentation of new music. It provides an opportunity for you to explore and present creative ideas collaboratively with peers in a professionally engaged environment.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Apply basic creative approaches to build your technical proficiency across a range of creative musical practices and develop your team-building and collaborative music-making skill.
2. Create and realise new musical works.
3. Critically reflect on your own work and that of your peers in order to inform your own musical creative practice.

Content

Learning Approaches

During this unit you will engage with teaching staff whose areas of expertise span a wide range of established and emerging practices. Development of the foundation of practical skills in, and knowledge of, a range of music practices are at the core of this unit. In addition to this, you will work with and critique the work of peers. The unit combines supervised learning approaches and authentic tasks.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:

• feedback from staff and peers through a series of presentation formats
• a range of formative exercises discussed regularly in class
• comments on summative assessment work communicated to you via your unit Canvas website
• criteria sheet grading.

Assessment

Overview

The first assessment item is designed to help inform and guide your progression throughout the semester through staff assessed work-in-progress, and values the ability and importance of you and your peers in being able to critical analyse, provide feedback and measure your and other's creative practice. Assessment two is where you present musical works that have been instigated, developed and completed in response to a brief and guided by feedback throughout the semester.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Work-in-progress

During the semester you will present work-in-progress in specified formats and contexts. You will receive feedback from staff and through peer review, and you will peer review the work of others.

Assessment: Portfolio of creative works

A series of recorded/rendered creative works and/or live performances. This portfolio will contain mandatory items in addition to student negotiated works.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.

Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Requirements to Study

Requirements

All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.

This unit also requires a Tier 2 Health and Safety Induction

Resources

Risk Assessment Statement

For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.

Excessive noise in confined spaces can damage hearing. Exposure to such noise should be brief and controlled. Personal injury is possible from incorrectly lifting heavy electronic or acoustic instruments or equipment.

The physical demands of playing instruments may cause injuries such as repetitive strain injury. If in doubt consult a physician.

The use of electronic instruments and equipment may cause electrocution if handled incorrectly or an electrical fault occurs. Always ensure your equipment has been regularly tested by a qualified electrician.

Musical, electrical and computer equipment is prone to failure. Any loss of time for such failures should be accounted for in your planning.

Safety of data storage can never be fully guaranteed. You are required to take all steps necessary to ensure continuity of your data.

Course Learning Outcomes

KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts

1. Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
   Relates to: ULO1
2. Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO2, ULO3
3. Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
   Relates to: ULO1
4. Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO1
5. Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
   Relates to: ULO2
6. Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
   Relates to: ULO3