2dmt1314 Brief t3.1

Miskin Theatre Assignment

Assignment Cover Sheet

Assignment Reference: BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Music Technology Brief IV’d By: Andrew Pettitt


Title: Desert Island Discs PASSED /RETURNED

Units: Unit 14 - Listening Skills for Musicians (GC1-4)

Timing within Course: Yr 1, Term 3, 2014


Date Set: 9th May 2014

Submission Deadlines: 23rd May 2014 Special Considerations/ Independent Study is essential. Allow yourself project studio time.Resources: Access To Word Processor, access to internet.


Key Skills Outcomes: This project will go towards covering Key Skills outcomes.

Tutors in charge of Assignment: Matt Power

Relevant Departmental Notes


Assessment throughout this course is essentially formative, therefore company members can re-visit or elect criteria as stated within this brief and from past and future briefs to arrive at their final assessment grades.

1st Year Diploma in Music Technology – TERM 3


The Brief

Desert Island Discs

Anyone working in music needs to have good listening skills. This ability is essential in order to perform, compose or to DJ. As sound engineers you need to be able to recognise and describe the quality of musical and other sounds so that they can balance and creatively adjust them. This project allows you to discuss how certain combinations of sonic and musical elements can create positive, or indeed negative, results.


Though analytical hearing you will learn what to listen out for when comparing and contrasting music. You must discuss three songs as if you were being interviewed on the radio. The songs are your choice, and can be of any genre within the popular music category. This project is particularly helpful as you will be discussing music that is already of high fidelity, giving you clues of the ideals you may wish to achieve with your own recordings. Use your vocabulary to allow other listeners to hear and discover the elements that you find crucial to the enjoyment you find in these recordings.

The fourth song you will describe will be one to which you believe has sonic and musical faults. This could be a live rendition of a track you have previously discussed or indeed one of your own Logic recordings. The important point to the part of the project is that it is clear you can hear something when it isn’t right, and then offer ways


as to correct it.

You will be working in pairs and will take it in turn to be the interviewer and interviewee but will produce two individual programmes. The interviewer will be given some specific scripted questions for you to answer before, after, or during each of your chosen tracks. There can be an element of role-play involved, as you may wish to take on the personality of a successful musician who is talking about the three songs that most inspired them. Lucid responses and a wide vocabulary are desired for your answers. It may also be advisable to pick three different sounding tracks in order to give you more scope for your discussion.


Desert Island Discs 1 - Choose 3 songs and prepare notes about the musical components within each given genre highlighting the important components of each musical ensemble (U14 GC1; U40 GC1) and the sonics and production techniques involved (U14 GC2). 2 - Import the songs into Logic and set up a microphone and pop-shield and record your comments of the songs as if it was a radio interview. 3 – Edit and bounce the finished product,label it clearly, and transfer to the designated itunes folder. (U14 GC1-4 PMD)Evidence – Audio RecordingsGrading Criteria: Pass, Merit and Distinction attainable


Submission Date: 23rd May 2014

Miskin Theatre Grading Criteria Sheet (Please see your brief)

Qualification: Extended Diploma in Music Technology Name:

Project: Unit Title: 40 Working and Developing as a Musical Ensemble


Criteria: 1 (of 4) Initials: MP I.V.: Date:To achieve a pass grade the evidence must show the learner is able to:

To achieve a merit grade the evidence must show the learner is able to:

To achieve a distinction grade the evidence must show the learner is able to:

Evidence

Grade achieved so far

P1 Explain the elements of Musical Ensembles.

M1 Illustrate the elements of Musical Ensembles.

D1 Analyse the elements of Musical Ensembles.




Miskin Theatre Grading Criteria Sheet (Please see your brief)

Qualification: Extended Diploma in Music Technology Name:

Project: Unit Title: 14 Listening Skills For Music Technologists


Criteria: 1-4 Initials: MP I.V.: Date:

To achieve a pass grade the evidence must show the learner is able to:

To achieve a merit grade the evidence must show the learner is able to:

To achieve a distinction grade the evidence must show the learner is able to:

Evidence

Grade achieved so far

P1 listen to recordings or performances and describe the musical components

M1 listen to recordings or performances and explain the musical components

D1 listen to recordings or performances and critically comment on the musical components

2 listen to recordings or performances and describe the sonic components

M2 listen to a recording or performances and explain the sonic components

D2 listen to a recording or performances and critically comment on the sonic components

P3 hear and describe sonic and musical faults in recordings or performances

M3 hear and explain the sonic and musical faults in recordings or performances

D3 hear and comment critically on the sonic and musical faults in recordings or performances

P4 describe the textures of musical instruments and the effect of the acoustic environment on them.

M4 explain the textures of musical instruments and sounds and the effect of the acoustic environment on them.

D4 critically comment on the textures of musical instruments and sounds and the effect of the acoustic environment on them.

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