AF23011D (PRM): Module Guide
Module Title: Production and Recording for Musicians
Module Code: AF23011D
Location of Delivery: Cambridge
Pathway: Creative Music Technology
Workshop/Lecture: Hel 035.
Module Leader: Miguel Mera, Tutor: Gareth Stuart.
Cambridge / Helmore Building / Room -
Extension: -
Email: gareth@zigzagmusic.com
Module Description
Production and Recording for Musicians is a module aimed at the aspiring musician rather than at the recording engineer. Students learn to operate recording software while exploring its creative possibilities in a range of musical situations. The computerised control of sound-processing is based on practical work undertaken by the students. Recording approaches to a key number of musical situations are examined together with the creative use of microphone placement and an understanding of particular aspects of voice recording. Tracking, editing and mastering techniques, including normalising, compressing and the use of gates, are examined to enhance rhythmic recordings. The importance of these techniques is integral to the presentation of the final task outcomes. Students will be able to work collaboratively by forming and recording musical ensembles or soloists, with the intention of realising particular recording/production scenarios. Assessment is via a portfolio of relevant tasks with specific musical goals.
Intended Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the student will be expected to be able to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the workings of the computer as a recording studio.
2. Understand the musical demands of studio and location recording aided by knowledge of computer music resources.
3. Develop the ability to work as part of a team in music recording projects.
4. Demonstrate detailed editing and final mastering skills in the computer music studio.
Outline Delivery
All details of the delivery, content and assessment are detailed on the AF230011D ARU lesson plan 09-10
Attendance Requirements
Students are expected to attend all teaching sessions on the courses for which they have registered. Practical projects, rehearsals and ensemble performances are collaborative in their nature and require full attendance. Students taking practical and performance modules should be aware that at certain times a more intensive commitment is required which must be balanced against other life and work commitments. You will be notified of these extra rehearsals as far in advance as possible.
If you need to be away from classes for an extended period, it is very important that you inform your Student Adviser, and that you complete a ‘mitigating circumstances’ form.
Please see the notes on ‘Attendance’ in the Anglia Ruskin Undergraduate Student Handbook for full University regulations.
To be effectively prepared for a teaching session, you should:
- have completed all the set reading or other prescribed work as described in the course handbook or as set by your lecturer
- have your own copy of the required text or other material
- bring adequate writing materials for taking notes
- be wearing appropriate clothing, especially for rehearsals and performance workshops
- arrive mentally and physically prepared for the session
Attending all your classes is very important and one of the best ways to help you succeed in this module. In accordance with the Student Charter, you are expected to arrive on time and take an active part in all your timetabled classes. If you are unable to attend a class for a valid reason (e.g.: illness), please contact your Module Tutor.
Anglia Ruskin will closely monitor the attendance of all students and will contact you by e-mail if you have been absent without notice for two weeks. Continued absence can result in the termination of your registration, as you will be considered to have withdrawn from your studies.
International students who are non-EEA nationals and in possession of entry
clearance/leave to remain as a student (student visa) are required to be
in regular attendance at Anglia Ruskin. Failure to do so is considered to
be a breach of the immigration regulations. Anglia Ruskin, like all British Universities, is statutorily obliged to inform the Border and Immigration Agency of the Home Office of significant unauthorised absences by any student visa holders.
Attendance for Group and Collaborative Work
For modules that include collaborative practical work, especially those leading to live performance events, there is an especial necessity for full and punctual attendance. Poor attendance and/or engagement inevitably has a detrimental affect on the work of your fellow students and will hinder their achievement, as well as your own.
If you are unable to attend a particular rehearsal, class or workshop you should inform your Module Leader or the Department Administrator immediately, and in advance of the class wherever possible. All members of staff have voicemail and email. You will then be entered on the register as an ‘explained absence’. Failure to do this will mean that you will be marked ‘unexplained absent’.
Absence for reasons of external work commitments, timetable clashes or time mismanagement will not be accepted.
You should be aware that poor attendance and/or lack of commitment will inevitably affect your ability to meet the module learning outcomes to a satisfactory standard, and consequently your mark may be affected.
Assessment
In order to pass this module, students are required to achieve an overall mark of 40%
In addition, students are required to (a) for each element of fine graded assessment listed above, achieve a minimum mark of 30% (or higher – see Module Guide) and (b) pass any pass/fail elements
Please note, the following assessment elements are subject to approval from the external examiner.
Your final submission consists of:
Portfolio comprising original recordings, edit work and mastering accompanied by a reflective and critical Internet blogs
Your final date will be:
Wednesday 12th of May 2010, before 5pm at the i-Centre of the Cambridge Campus (on the ground floor of Rackham building, opposite the garden square between Helmore and the Library).
The portfolio will contain:
Five assessments
The weighting of items within the portfolio will be:
100% (all tasks to be weighted equally)
The Marking scheme will be:
0-100, you need 40 or above to pass.
The tasks from which you will choose your representative portfolio items are briefed in class according to the lesson plan above, here are the briefs again:
Task 1: Edit – create a newly edited playlist from the sound file provided.
Task 2: Voice Over – from a given script and sound effects provided, produce a spoken word recording (using two voices).
Task 3: Stereo Mic Technique – produce a total of 9 recordings, 3 of each instrument, demonstrating various stereo techniques, using AB technique as a ‘constant’.
Task 4: Multitrack Recording – produce a ‘band’ recording (musical style irrelevant) demonstrating your grasp of multi mic recording techniques and multitrack production techniques.
Task 5: Multitrack Production – a technique and production based exercise drawing on technical and musical knowledge to ‘showcase’ all techniques covered during the year.
Tasks will be handed in for discussion on the classroom server DEPOT. At the end of the year, a final safety copy should be compiled at the end of the module and handed in as detailed in the lesson plan. Please make sure you are very familiar with the outline programme lesson plan above. The tutor will aim to provide constant feedback on the tasks handed in.
The final portfolio must be submitted by Wednesday 12th of May 2010, before 5pm at the i-Centre of the Cambridge Campus (on the ground floor of Rackham building, opposite the garden square between Helmore and the Library).
Feedback
You are entitled to written feedback on your performance for all your assessed work. For all assessment tasks which are not examinations, this is provided by a member of academic staff completing the assignment coversheet on which your mark and feedback will relate to the achievement of the module’s intended learning outcomes and the assessment criteria you were given for the task when it was first issued.
Anglia Ruskin is committed to providing you with feedback on all assessed work within 20 working days of the submission deadline or the date of an examination. This is extended to 30 days for feedback for a Major Project module (please note that working days excludes those days when Anglia Ruskin University is officially closed; e.g.: between Christmas and New Year).
At the main Anglia Ruskin University campuses, each Faculty will publish details of the arrangement for the return of your assessed work (e.g.: a marked essay or case study etc.). Any work which is not collected by you from the Faculty within this timeframe is returned to the iCentres from where you can subsequently collect it. The iCentres retain student work for a specified period prior to its disposal.
For modules where elements of assessment are submitted via WebCT, your feedback for those elements will be provided electronically, via WebCT. Where portfolio submissions are also made via the iCentre, tutors will return your coversheet, indicating your mark for the work, together with all media, via the usual return procedures.
To assure ourselves that our marking processes are comparable with other universities in the UK, Anglia Ruskin provides samples of student assessed work to external examiners as a routine part of our marking processes. External examiners are experienced academic staff from other universities who scrutinise your work and provide Anglia Ruskin academic staff with feedback and advice. Many of Anglia Ruskin’s staff act as external examiners at other universities.
On occasion, you will receive feedback and marks for pieces of work that you completed in the earlier stages of the module. We provide you with this feedback as part of the learning experience and to help you prepare for other assessment tasks that you have still to complete. It is important to note that, in these cases, the marks for these pieces of work are unconfirmed as the processes described above for the use of external examiners will not have been completed. This means that, potentially, marks can change, in either direction! Marks for modules and individual pieces of work become confirmed on the Dates for the Official Publication of Results, which can be checked at www.anglia.ac.uk/results.
7. Assessment Offences
You are reminded that any work that you submit must be your own. All suspected assessment offences will be investigated and can result in severe penalties. Please note that it is your responsibility to consult the relevant sections of the Academic Regulations (section 10 – see www.anglia.ac.uk/academicregs) and the Student Handbook.
When you are preparing your work for submission, it is important that you understand the various academic conventions that you are expected to follow in order to make sure that you do not leave yourself open to accusations of plagiarism (eg: the correct use of referencing, citations, footnotes etc.) and that your work maintains its academic integrity.
Plagiarism is theft and constitutes the presentation of another’s work as your own in order to gain an unfair advantage. You will receive advice and guidance on how to avoid plagiarism and other elements of poor academic practice during the early stages of your studies at Anglia Ruskin.
A Guide to Academic Integrity and Good Academic Practice
A primary purpose of a University education is to instil in each student an understanding of, and a capacity for scholarship, independent judgment, academic rigour, and intellectual honesty.
It is the joint responsibility of university teachers, support staff and students to work together to foster these ends through relationships which encourage freedom of inquiry, demonstrate personal and professional integrity, and foster mutual respect.
Good academic practice refers to the process of completing your academic work independently, honestly and in an appropriate academic style, using good referencing and acknowledging all of your sources.
To demonstrate good academic practice you must:
- develop your own independent evaluation of academic issues;
- draw upon research from academics in your field of study;
- discuss and evaluate existing concepts and theories;
- demonstrate your understanding of the key literature;
- develop your own arguments.
To support your own good academic practice you will need to develop
- study and information skills (eg. reading, note-taking, research etc);
- skills of critical enquiry and evaluation (eg. taking a balanced opinion, using reasoning and argument);
- appropriate academic writing skills (eg. for essays, reports, dissertations etc);
- referencing skills;
- examination techniques (eg. preparation and timing etc).
Achieving good academic practice is not as complicated as it may appear. In a nutshell, you need to:
- know the rules;
- make sure you reference all sources.
Poor academic practice or academic dishonesty (plagiarism, cheating, fraud etc.) is sometimes caused by insecurity as to what is expected and what is allowed. If you are in any doubt you should talk to a librarian and/or your module or personal tutor.
Our Expectations of Students
The Student Charter (available at: http://web.anglia.ac.uk/anet/students/pdfs/ 11473_Charter_16ppA5.pdf) requires you to ‘be aware of the academic rules relating to your studies’, p9). We expect you to agree that you will:
i) ensure that you are familiar with the academic conventions regarding the citing (acknowledgement, referencing) of the work of others (see http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/referencing.htm for assistance);
ii) only hand in your own original work for assessment;
iii) correctly reference all the sources for the information you have included in your work;
iv) identify information you have downloaded from the internet;
v) never use another student’s work as if it were your own work;
vi) never use someone else’s artwork, pictures or graphics (including graphs, spreadsheets etc. and information from the internet) as if they were made by you;
vii) never let other students use or copy from your work;
viii) work through ‘PILOT’, the online tutorial available on the University library website (http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/pilot/). PILOT addresses a number of study skills which will help you develop good academic practice.
Assessment Criteria and Marking Standards
Anglia Ruskin University Generic Assessment Criteria
Please consult your student pathway handbook for details about Anglia Ruskin’s generic assessment criteria and policy. This information can also be found under the Student section of ANET.
Module Specific Assessment Criteria
In addition to Anglia Ruskin’s generic assessment criteria, your work will also be marked against module-specific assessment criteria. Assessment tasks for this module will be marked against the marking criteria for Artefact Creation and Written Work, which are available under the Student Resources section of the departmental web site at: www.anglia.ac.uk/mpa.
Assessment Offences
You are reminded that any work that you submit must be your own. All suspected assessment offences will be investigated and can result in severe penalties. Please note that it is your responsibility to consult the relevant sections of the Academic Regulations (section 10) and the Student Handbook.
Module Definition Form
The Module Definition Form for Production and Recording for Musicians
AF23011D can be found by clicking MRF AF230011D Production and Recording
Learning Resources
All details of the learning resources for this module are given in the Resources section of this web site.
Report of Last Delivery of Module
The report of the last delivery of Production and Recording for Musicians
AF23011D can be found by clicking MRF AF230011D Production and Recording
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