WAAPA Music : Composition : WAAPA Musicians Blog

Not to be missed, this work live, performed by WAAPA staff and students co-ordinated by honours student, Callum Moncreiff. 3pm this sunday 2nd Spetember.

leading Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin is coming to speak to the students in a question-and-answer session which is run by Dr Jonathan Marshall on this coming Fri 31st of August, 3:30 PM til about 4:30 PM, location 17.103. I urge all students to go along as Lucy has worked with Australian composers such as Darrin Verhagen and Frank Tetaz.

Lucy will be in town to present her show Love Me at PICA http://www.pica.org.au/art07/loveme.shtm… for which PICA are kindly offering a student discount.

these are being looked at by the WAAPA lawyers and will be up here soon

Martijn Tellinga - sonic arts
PERFORMANCE: THE BAKERY, 8PM 20TH AUGUST

ARTIST TALK: WAAPA, 1.220A, 12.30 - 2PM (FREE)

Martijn Tellinga is a composer and sound-artist in the field of new electro-acoustic music and sonic arts, and a recent graduate of a Masters degree in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory The Haque in Netherlands. His work shows a great care for textural qualities, an eye for compositoric detail, and seeks its identity in the overlap of formalised form and intuitive musicmaking. More than relying on melody, harmony and rhythm, these works are constructed from what Martijn calls the fundamental building blocks of music: timbre, texture, volume and time-elapse.

Tellinga’s work has been performed and exhibited across the globe, he has been commissioned by such labels as Korm Plastics (Hol), Spekk (Japan), Cronica Electronica (Portugal) and Stichting Mixer (Hol), and has collaborated with numerous filmmakers, video-artists and autonome artists, providing soundtracks for animated and short films. His ongoing project  ‘Boca Raton’ particularly deals with the synthesis between concrete unstaged sound and synthetic sonorities. As it has never shown any steady state, the project develops over time according to the composer’s ideas and capacities.

Graduate Diploma of Music – Screen Composition
Masters of Music – Screen Composition
Honours – Screen Composition

WAAPA Is pleased to offer this new suite of courses suit students with an undergraduate degree in a related area of study.
In the screen composition course, students study film music, installation, music for games, internet, TV, video and electronic arts.
WAAPA’s close affiliation with the Screen Academy, film and video school, game design department and industry bodies facilitates collaborative projects and skills relevant to this competitive workplace.
Students should have some music composition experience prior to entry, and admission is subject to interview.

The Bachelor of Music (Music Technology)
Course Description

The Bachelor of Music (Music Technology) is a music course designed specifically for committed students seeking to become music producers, electronic music performance or installation artists, and electronic music composers. Students study a core of music units common to all Bachelor of Music students, plus a sequence of specialist and lab based units that include conceptual, practical and historical overviews of creative technologies and their role in modern music practice. This will be supplemented by visiting artists contributions, mentorships and a composer in residency program.
This course offers a formal music training to students wishing to work with music technology, creating graduates that are able to use technologies for creative means. This addresses a need in the workplace for quality producers, creative music programmers, electronic music performers and composers with a consolidated music training in addition to a working knowledge of current technologies. It is not a sound engineering course.
WAAPA is ideally placed to teach this course with its state of the art computer labs, up to date software and multi disciplinary arts environment. It maintains a close relationship with the electronic arts and game design departments within the Faculty.
Students are expected to have some degree of music training prior to entry, and to have experience on any music-making instrument, which can include electronic instruments such as laptops and DJ set ups. There are frequent performance opportunities within the university as well as in the public domain, and there is a strong emphasis on composition throughout the course. There are electronic music ensembles where students may create works to perform and perform seminal electronic works.
All styles and genres will be studied, however the course focuses on skills related to the 21st century, reflecting demands on electronic musicians and producers in the workplace. Students will be able to access opportunities throughout WAAPA which include composing and recording music for the Screen Academy, film, video, dance and theatre. Performance is an integral part of the course until the third year when students may specialise in other aspects of ensembles; such as production, recording, composition, interactivity, design etc.
Final year students will graduate having completed a major composition, production or interactive project, installation, major film score or live performance. Graduates work as music producers, electronic performers, composers for screen, mixed or digital media, music software developers, DJs and mixers.
The degree will lead high ranking graduates to Honours, post graduate diploma and masters level studies in any area of music technology study.

TO APPLY

Students apply by presenting a folio of work (which may be written or recorded material), a short audition on their instrument, and an aural test. Students are expected to have some degree of music training prior to entry, and to have a high standard on either voice or any music making instrument, which can include electronic instruments such as laptops.

More Information on the course as a whole is here.

The Bachelor of Music (COMPOSITION)

The Bachelor of Music (Composition) is a 3 year music course designed specifically for students seeking to become composers in any media. Students study a core of music units common to all Bachelor of Music students, plus a sequence of specialist units which include conceptual, analytical, practical and historical overviews of composition and its role in modern music practice. Students are able to study composition in their field of specialisation which may include western art music or jazz, and go on to specialise in creating pure music, music for film or other applied composition. Students wishing to specialise in electroacoustic or other electronic composition may wish to consider the music technology major. The course is supplemented by annual artist in residence program, and has a focus on local as well as Australian composition practice.
All styles and genres will be studies, however the course focuses on skills related to writing music in the 21st century, reflecting demands on composers in the workplace. Students are expected to participate in WAAPA’s composer performance ensemble, Axis 21, where appropriate. Students will be able to access opportunites throughout WAAPA which include the composers server(where students host web sites and file sharing facilities), as well as composing and recording music for the Screen Academy, video, visual art, dance, theatre and contemporary performance.
The emphasis on composition at WAAPA is on the performance of work as well as its construction: your final year assessment is a recital of your works in addition as a folio. There are many performance opportunities throughout the course.
Students are expected to have some degree of music training prior to entry, and to have a high standard on either voice or any music making instrument, which can include electronic instruments such as laptops.
Graduates work as pure music composers, composers for theatre and dance, composers for screen and mixed or digital media, music software developers.
The degree will lead high rating graduates to Honours and postgraduate studies.

Audition: short interview with  folio and/or CD submission of work (compositions, recordings etc), 2 page CV, short aural test.

Your composition studies are supplemented with music technology modules in the first year, and composers workshop is a  weekly practical forum throught the couse where composers try ideas. All composition students do music techniques, history, communications and extension studies along with the entire music cohort.

Details on the whole course structure are here