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Students will develop their skills in live performance with electronics, through preparing and realising a performance either solo or as a group.

2 hour seminar followed by fortnightly guidance meetings

Mandatory Entry Requirements: Standard entry to Masters at College level and entry to the MMus Sonic Arts

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Students will develop and undertake a live performance of ca. 15 minutes (80%), with accompanying reflective commentary of ca. 1000 words (20%). This may be realised as a solo or as a group performance of longer duration; in the case of a group performance, each individual will provide their own reflective commentary, which must include a detailed analysis of their own contribution.

The overall aim of this course is to examine the implications of performing with audio technology. In particular the course aims to:

■ Enhance students' practical performance skills

■ Explore live performance with technology as an experimental practice

■ Engage with the implications of deploying live performance technology, examining issues of liveness, space and media

■ Confront the practical and aesthetic problems that live performance presents

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ devise and realise a performance oriented around the use of sound technology

■ identify and resolve practical and aesthetic issues in live performance

■ organize, manage and promote their live performance

■ demonstrate awareness of the implications of space, venue and approaches to spatial sound reproduction

■ apply critical reflection to their performance

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.