M-JP-EBDLGW

Practical Classes

4

5 to 12 students.

30 - dependent on group size

minimum 60 minutes - maximum dependent on group size

32 hours

79 hours

Admitted to year 2 Jazz & Pop or, after audition, Composition for Film and Theatre. This subject can only be followed on-campus.

NOTE that selecting one elective band is compulsory in the second year Jazz & Pop. In years 2, 3 and 4 students Jazz & Pop can select up to two elective bands per year in total.

See Competencies Matrix.

The students will develop an idiosyncratic artistic voice and gain experience in the broad field of experimental music.

This module is related to the main subject module.

In these lessons the students will play and create work within the broad field of experimental musics, exploratory, progressive artistic expressions. As a band they will be working on developing an idiosyncratic artistic expression of their own. For reference: the programming of Utrecht-based festival Le Guess Who?

If they are very pro-active, this band can submit their work to make a chance at playing in the side-program of Le Guess Who? festival in november.

Creation, feedback, playing together, and performances.

Handed out by the instructor (where applicable).

Creating & organizing project / artistic material, making it happen into performance.

Assessment by the band instructor at the end of each semester.

Creativity, improvisation, timing and phrasing, musical interaction, interpretation, form awareness, tonal balance, preparation, performance, active participation and attitude.

The student has completed this module if being awarded a minimum grade of 5.5 at the end of the second semester.

Written assessment by the instructor at the end of both semesters. Assessment at the end of the autumn semester is formative and expressed in terms of satisfactory/unsatisfactory. It indicates a student's progress in this module. No ECs are awarded and there is no resit. Modules can only be absolved, and ECs awarded, after the end of the spring semester. The end-of-semester assessments comprise evaluations of students' performance during the rehearsals and public performances.

See the Education and Assessment Plan.