BA (Hons) RADIOModule Outline

MD6402 Experimental Audio 2014-15Semester 2

Module tutor: Jim Beaman jbeaman@glos.ac.uk

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Module DescriptorModule TitleExperimental Audio

Module CodeMD6402

Module TutorJim Beaman

SchoolMedia

CAT Points15

Level of Study6

Pre-requisitesNone

Co-requisitesNone

RestrictionsCannot be counted with RAP303Available only to Radio Production, Popular Music, Creative Media, Media Production and Journalism students

Brief DescriptionThis module explores the idea that there are a variety of 'radios' that include audio/radio art, montage, and soundscapes. It encourages innovation, experimentation and creativity.

Indicative SyllabusFrom exploring audio portraits, through soundscapes to examining radio montage, this module expands your understanding of the radio aesthetic and encourages you to integrate theory and practice in a critical way. In doing so, your understanding of radio will move beyond the more obvious commercial, community or public service models, and the aesthetic forms and genres that serve them, into understanding radio's imaginative/creative potential.

Learning OutcomesA student passing this module should be able to: 1. Develop and deliver a short, innovative and experimental radio/audio montage. 2. Critically evaluate the radio art form. 3. Integrate theory and practice and critically reflect upon their own production in written work 4. Integrate theory and practice in the recording, selection and editing of audio material for a rhetorical/emotive effect 5. Apply audio technologies to produce innovative material.

Learning and Teaching ActivitiesScheduled Contact Hours: 36Independent Learning Hours: 114

Assessment (For further details see the Module Guide)001: 60% Coursework: Individual, other: Duration subject to negotiation with tutor 002: 40% Coursework: Individual, standard written: 1500 Words.

Special Assessment Requirements

Indicative ResourcesThe Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.

MD6402 Experimental Audio

Tutor: Jim Beaman

Week by Week

Week 1 Introduction to the module. Exploring Sound. We will create sounds out of things in our pockets.

Week 2 Audio Portraits and Soundscapes. We take a Listening Walk. We discuss how to construct sound. Listen to some examples and critically evaluate them. Diegetic and non-diegetic sound.

Week 3 Primary Codes of Radio - Voices, Sounds, Music and Silence. Getting the ingredients right. Keeping notes and sketches. Collect a selection of man-made and a selection of natural sounds.

Week 4 Initial Ideas and Approaches to production The Corridor groups exercise

Week 5Preparing for Assignment come prepared to discuss your ideas either skeletal or full bodied. Application of Oblique Strategies to help creativity.

Week 6 Experimental Progress to date

Employability & Enterprise Week

Week 7 Workshop

Week 8 Workshop

Easter Holiday

Week 9 Workshop

Week 10 Progress to date group seminar

Week 11 Submit montage assignment during session

Staff & student Research Conference

Week 12 Submit Essay & Notebook assignment / Playback and discussion

Throughout the module you will be taking part in individual and group formative exercises with the aim of encouraging insights and developing your abilities to assist in production of your assessed assignment.

A Reading List for this module is available by accessing the Library Catalogue online.

Assessment Briefs

1. Module Code and Title

MD6402 Experimental Audio

2. Module tutor

Jim Beaman

3. Tutor with responsibility for this Assessment

Jim Beaman jbeaman@glos.ac.uk

This is your first point of contact

4. Weighting, Type and Size of Assessment001: 60% Coursework: Individual, other: Duration subject to negotiation with tutor

You will be penalised according to the Academic Regulations for Taught Provision if you exceed the size limit.

5. Submission Deadline

001: 30th April 2015

Your attention is drawn to the penalties for late submission; see Academic Regulations for Taught Provision

6. Arrangements for submission

By in-class electronic transfer to the designated folder on the teaching computer no later than 4pm on the date stated above.

Your files must be labelled following this format: Forename Surname MD6401 Ass 001.

7. Date and location for return of workYou will receive feedback via email no later than:

1st June 2015

8. Disabled Students

Alternative assessment arrangements may be made, where appropriate, for disabled students. However, these will only be implemented upon the advice of the Disability Advisor.

Disabled students wishing to be considered for alternative assessment arrangements must give notification of the disability (with evidence) to the Disability Adviser by the published deadlines.

9. University Regulations for Assessment

All assessments are subject to the Academic regulations for Taught Provision. These include regulations relating to Errors of Attribution and Assessment Offences. In exercising their judgment, Examiners may penalise any work where the standard of English, numeracy or presentation adversely affects the quality of the work, or where the work submitted exceeds the published size or time limits, or where the work fails to follow normal academic conventions for acknowledging sources

Careful referencing of sources is vital when making use of the work of others. You are expected to employ the referencing conventions recommended in the Course. These conventions apply to information taken from internet sources, as well as books, journals and lectures. If you are unsure of the way to reference properly, seek advice from a member of staff before you submit the assessment. These are some of the points you should check before submitting your work: are all direct quotations, from both primary and secondary sources, suitably acknowledged (placed in quotation marks or indented)? have you provided full details of the source of the quotation, according to the referencing convention used in the Course? have you acknowledged the source of ideas not your own, even if you are not quoting directly from the source? have you avoided close paraphrase from sources? (Check that you are not presenting other peoples words or phrasing as if they are your own.) if you have worked closely with others in preparing for this assessment, is the material you are presenting sufficiently your own?

10. The requirements for the assessment

Sound Montage

Individual production of an audio portrait of a person known to you, or a soundscape of a real place in the form of a recorded sound montage. Your production should be made up of original actuality in the form of voices, sounds and music collected by you, not harvested, and used in a creative and imaginative construction but without the use of a storytelling narrator. Duration of the piece should be minimum of 0:04:00 minutes to a maximum of 0:08:00 minutes.

11. Assessment criteriaThe work submitted will be marked according to evidence of: The application of technical skills and techniques. Imaginative approach to produce innovative content. The production of an original piece of work within the time constraints and format restrictions. Coherent and concise presentation of creative ideas.

Assessment Feedback 001

Student . Assignment 1 (Montage Production) 1st 2:1 2:2 3rd F Comments and suggestions

Work submitted in correctly formatted and labeled

Application of technical skills

Choice of subject matter

Quality of production

Originality of material

Originality of production

Editorial and creative approach

Note: The above is not intended to be a mechanistic measure, but rather as an indicative guide for assessment.

General Feedback

Final agreed mark, subject to confirmation by assessment board.

1st Marker

2nd Marker

1. Module Code and Title

MD6402 Experimental Audio

2. Module tutor

Jim Beaman

3. Tutor with responsibility for this Assessment

Jim Beaman jbeaman@glos.ac.uk

This is your first point of contact

4. Weighting, Type and Size of Assessment002: 40% Coursework: Individual, standard written: 1500 Words.

You will be penalised according to the Academic Regulations for Taught Provision if you exceed the size limit.

5. Submission Deadline

Thursday 14th May 2015

Your attention is drawn to the penalties for late submission; see Academic Regulations for Taught Provision

6. Arrangements for submission

Physical Submission to the Assignment Room or to one of the physical 'drop-boxes' located on campus. Details of opening times and locations are available here: https://infonet.glos.ac.uk/departments/registry/assignments/Pages/default.aspx

Your submission must be accompanied by an 'Assessment Coversheet'. These are available viathe Student Records Onlineportal by following the 'Assessment, Feedback and Results' link and then selecting 'My Assessments'.

7. Date and location for return of workYou will receive feedback by email no later than: 12th June 2015

Your work will be returned via the Park Assignment Room.

8. Disabled Students

Alternative assessment arrangements may be made, where appropriate, for disabled students. However, these will only be implemented upon the advice of the Disability Advisor.Disabled students wishing to be considered for alternative assessment arrangements must give notification of the disability (with evidence) to the Disability Adviser by the published deadlines.

9. University Regulations for Assessment

All assessments are subject to the Academic regulations for Taught Provision. These include regulations relating to Errors of Attribution and Assessment Offences. In exercising their judgment, Examiners may penalise any work where the standard of English, numeracy or presentation adversely affects the quality of the work, or where the work submitted exceeds the published size or time limits, or where the work fails to follow normal academic conventions for acknowledging sources

Careful referencing of sources is vital when making use of the work of others. You are expected to employ the referencing conventions recommended in the Course. These conventions apply to information taken from internet sources, as well as books, journals and lectures. If you are unsure of the way to reference properly, seek advice from a member of staff before you submit the assessment. These are some of the points you should check before submitting your work: are all direct quotations, from both primary and secondary sources, suitably acknowledged (placed in quotation marks or indented)? have you provided full details of the source of the quotation, according to the referencing convention used in the Course? have you acknowledged the source of ideas not your own, even if you are not quoting directly from the source? have you avoided close paraphrase from sources? (Check that you are not presenting other peoples words or phrasing as if they are your own.) if you have worked closely with others in preparing for this assessment, is the material you are presenting sufficiently your own?

The requirements for the assessment

Reflective Essay, and notebook

Write 1,000 words analysing and commenting on the development of your montage and the creative process adopted to achieve the production referring to academic and industry writing on the subject of experimentation, creativity, sound and audio montage production. Do not simply describe what you did through the stages of production, but explain the thinking behind your editorial decisions and make reference to your notes kept during the on-going experimentation and development of the work.

Your original notebook and any other research must also be included in your submission.

11. Assessment criteriaThe work submitted should demonstrate: Written communication and skills. Effective use of notebook. Application of research findings. Insight into and critical analysis of the experimental audio process. Correct Harvard referencing within text and bibliography

Assessment Feedback 002

Student.

Assignment 2 (Essay & Note Book)12.12.23FComments and suggestions

Understanding of genre/format

Precision of academic referencing

Explanation of approach and technique

Depth of analysis of work produced

Clarity of presentation of ideas

Use of English, grammar, spelling etc.

Note: The above is not intended to be mechanistic measure, but rather as an indicative guide for assessment.

General Feedback

Final agreed mark, subject to confirmation by assessment board.

1st Marker

2nd Marker

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