KMB327 Music Creation 4

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Overview

This unit consolidates your music creative skills in an individually defined area of practice within the broader field of music professions. It develops and refines works and performances in an authentic and professional context and fosters greater entrepreneurial awareness through activation of professional networks and consideration of a sustainable career. This is the capstone unit for the BFA (Music) degree. It draws on your experience from all previous Music Creation units. You will lead and participate in individual or collaborative projects to produce the most fully realised portfolio of work in your degree. The portfolio will demonstrate that you have developed a sophisticated and professional voice over the years of your study. It will also demonstrate a high level of professional activity and engagement. It will be launched to a public audience and demonstrate the highest professional values and an awareness of global potentials in your area of specialisation.

Learning Outcomes

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

1. Apply a range of creative approaches to demonstrate your refined technical proficiency within a specific area of creative musical practice.
2. Conceive, develop, and realise new musical works individually and in collaboration with peers, that defines you as a unique creative practitioner.
3. Critically reflect on your own work and that of your peers in order to manage and refine your musical creative practice and successfully communicate this to audiences.
4. Apply an understanding of historical and contemporary cultural contexts to situate your musical creative practice in a particular field.

Content

Learning Approaches

During this unit you will engage with lecturing staff whose areas of expertise span a wide range of established and emerging practices. Development of advanced practical skills and confidence in your own area of specialisation is 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 peers during seminars
• a range of formative exercises demonstrated and discussed in class
• feedback on your portfolio of work as the semester progresses
• comments on assessments communicated to the cohort via your Canvas unit website
• feedback via criterion-based grading sheets.

Assessment

Overview

In order to demonstrate your established and refined creative capabilities, and depth of knowledge and skills regarding music creation at this point in your degree, you are required to complete two assessment items for this unit. The first is an oral presentation (20%) outlining the findings from research into professional practice. This forms the basis of your work in the next assessment which is a portfolio of professional standard creative and critical work published online (80%). The portfolio will be built up progressively over the semester, and you will receive feedback on this as you progress over the semester.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Prof Practices Presentation

A presentation demonstrating an understanding of professional practices as a method of inquiry situated within the broader field. This presentation will inform the final semester portfolio of works.

Assessment: Portfolio of works

For this assessment you are required to submit an online published portfolio of creative works. The portfolio will demonstrate high quality creative outputs situated within a broader professional practice.

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.

Resources

Risk Assessment Statement

All students and staff are required to complete the Tier 1 CIF General Health and Safety Induction and Tier 2 KG Studios induction for access to campus buildings and facilities. This must be completed online.

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: ULO4
2. Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO2
3. Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
   Relates to: ULO2
4. Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO1
5. Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO3
6. Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
   Relates to: ULO1
7. Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO2
8. Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
   Relates to: ULO3
9. Demonstrate respect for cultural and social differences, and work with integrity across creative practice networks.
   Relates to: ULO4
10. Operate with initiative, ethical judgement and professionalism in creative practice, both alone and in groups.
    Relates to: ULO4