KMB317 Music Creation 3

Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Overview

This unit aids you to refine your creative strengths in a focused area of practice connecting these strengths with the development of a professional and artistic identity. It enables you to identify an individual specialisation and demonstrate your musical skills through the creation of new works. You will situate your practice within a well-defined artistic and professional field and realise musical outcomes through engagement in authentic learning and assessment activities. Professional musicians must develop a critical understanding of the relationship between their music making, its artistic contexts and audiences. This unit draws on the practical skills gained in the previous two Music Creation units, advancing on the development of more focused areas of musical expertise and specialisation. As the third of four units, the unit provides you with an opportunity to envision and realise a deep engagement with specific areas of creative practice.

Learning Outcomes

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

1. Apply creativity and technical proficiency within a specific area of musical practice.
2. Conceive, develop, and realise new musical works, individually and in collaboration with peers, that define 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 effectively communicate this to audiences.
4. Demonstrate a broad knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts that situates your musical creative practice in a particular field.

Content

Learning Approaches

During this unit you will engage in both online and face to face contexts, with teaching staff whose areas of expertise span a wide range of established and emerging practices. Development of more advanced practical skills in, and knowledge of, 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 in person and online learning activities
• 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

This unit requires you to demonstrate evidence of developing knowledge, skills and self-direction in music making. The first assessment item is a research project (40%) where you provide thorough contextual reviews of your individual field of professional practice. The second assessment item asks you to demonstrate advanced level creative skills in your field through a portfolio of creative work (60%). The portfolio is developed progressively throughout semester and informed by your research for the first assessment item.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Project (research)

You are required to submit a contextural review of a field of professional practice relevant to your creative and professional ambitions.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Assessment: Portfolio of creative works

You are required to submit a portfolio of creative works that are informed by the contextual review undertaken in assessment item 1. The portfolio should demonstrate convincing artistic and musical outcomes in your individual field of 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 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