Manifesto for electronic music as the messenger of change and utopia

Teacher: Morten Carlsen & Eva Brandt

Business as usual no longer works. We must use electronic music as a moral act – as a cry for change. No more indifferent aesthetic wrapping and dystopia. We must knock on the gate of inequality and expansion. We will create a work that focuses on the paradoxes and dilemmas of humanity, and that reaches beyond a Covid-19 and the next financial crisis.


PREREQUISITES

No subject specific prerequisites.


LEARNING OUTCOMES
  • At the completion of the module the student must:
    be acquainted with the disciplines (taxonomy) of electronic music with special focus on computer music, vocal processing and synthesis, spectral analysis, machine learning AI, interactive programming, and not least, knowledge of the participants’ top competences

CONTENTS
  • We work with the following areas:
    The students and teachers bring together working methods and knowledge, use the social and intellectual resources in the creation of a ‘gesamtkunstwerk’, in which the whole is always more than the individual parts. Inspiration can be drawn from ancient Greek tragedies, Mozart’s operas, cartoons, contemporary history, SciFi, – you name it. The voice is used as an instrument for more than reciting and singing. for example in electronic processing and voice synthesis. All tools are received with open arms: analog and digital synth’s, circuit bending dims, software like maxMSP, Supercollider, Kyma (yes, RMC has one), DAW’s plugs, knobs’ sliders.

TEACHING AND WORKING METHODS

Teaching and working methods
Group teaching
Cooperation
Exchange
Dialogue
Self studie


GROUP FORMATION

Group size, normally 5-8 students.


ASSESSMENT

The project is presented as audio montage / podcast.


REFERENCES
REGISTRATION

If you wish to participate in one of the TVAERS courses, you must enter up to 3 priority course requests. You can wish max. 2 courses and you will receive a reply no later than the 10th of August on whether you have a place on a course.

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TIME

One semester BA. 10 x 1,5 lessons. Expected Wednesdays or Fridays (not scheduled yet).

PLACE

Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium

ONLINE

NO

LEVEL

BA-level

ECTS

2,5

LANGUAGE

Danish – English if required by participants