M-JP-SAR

Practical Classes

5

8 minimum

24

One 90-minute session per week

36 hours

104 hours

Completion of year one of Jazz & Pop or Composition for Film and Theatre. This subject can only be followed on-campus.

See Competencies Matrix.

Acquiring and developing ensemble playing skills in interdisciplinary working.

Related to the main subject module

How does sound become music? What role does form play when composition happens in real time? SoundArt is an elective course that explores these questions through the use of unconventional and conventional sounds, and improvisation as a method of composing in the Moment.

Form is central to this exploration—not as a fixed structure, but as something emerging and evolving through listening and interaction. We will examine how form can arise from repetition, contrast, density, space, and resonance, and how musicians can shape it intuitively without relying on traditional compositional frameworks. Through improvisation, we will challenge the idea of form as something pre-determined, instead seeing it as a living process that unfolds in real time.

Equally important is the question of how we communicate in music. What happens when musicians rely on deep listening, gesture, or sonic intuition instead of traditional notation? How do we create shared meaning in sound? We will experiment with alternative modes of communication—structured improvisation, graphic notation, resonance-based interaction, and spontaneous decision-making—developing new ways to shape music collectively.

Deeply connected to traditions of new music, experimental music and the avant-garde, this course invites participants to push beyond conventional boundaries, embracing new ways of listening, playing, and composing. By working with unconventional approaches to sound, students will develop a deeper awareness of how form influences perception and meaning inmusic. This course is for those who want to experiment, push their instruments beyond traditional roles, and rethink the way sound is structured and experienced.

Sessions.

n/a

Finding students from other arts forms to join the sessions.

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

Creativity, improvisation, rhythmic idioms, timing and tempo control, musical interaction, intonation, sound, interpretation, form principles, tonal balance, preparation, accompaniment, collaboration with other arts forms 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.