COURSE DETAILS
The degree is aimed at songwriters, producers and DJs, and those wishing to run small record companies or to stage live events. You will work with UWS staff and visiting lecturers, who are themselves practising music industry professionals, and you'll make key contacts across the music industry.
Whether you are interested in a career in music promotion, tour management, sound engineering and production or performance, this degree will prepare you for success in the fast-changing modern music business.
Hello (It Isn't Me You're Looking For)
White Lies
Creative Music Project is a level 10 Module, which encourages students to explore, develop and deliver an informed and substantial creative work.
The module recognizes the hybrid nature of BA (Hons) Commercial Music, providing an opportunity to produce work that develops the range of themes and skills previously explored through the optional and core modules of the degree working towards a fully realized expression of students personal and creative identity.
Projects fall into a range of disciplines including;
Performance
Production
Cultural Entrepreneurship
Participatory Arts
Creative Music Project is also intended to contribute to students general portfolio of work, encourage them to operate out with the cultural “mainstream” and to impress upon future employers the value of artistic creativity as one of the most important key skills.
Here are some highlights of student works in progress...
‘I Consumed the Earth’ is a 5 track EP to be released on Band Camp under the name MEG.
The project inspiration comes from Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, about the siege of Leningrad, and David Attenborough’s documentary ‘A Life on Our Planet’, which he describes as his ‘witness statement’.
The EP will take the structure from Shostakovich’s symphony: War (Allegretto), Reminiscence (Moderato), Home Expanse (Adagio) and Victory (Allegro non troppo). This is as well as using Attenborough’s ‘witness statement’ to form a narrative for the siege of Leningrad as a metaphor for climate change.
Birdsong is a songwriting project which explores personal narratives through the story of birds
PBDIAB is a project aimed at Primary age children which will give them the tools to practice pipe band drumming in the classroom. Each pack will contain materials and lesson plans with fun and easy to learn drumming patterns.
Optic Noise is a visual, collaborative project which aims to celebrate and promote the need for creativity in contextualising experiences and events. Using music as a catalyst for inspiration, the project will showcase the many ways music can be perceived and interpreted, creating various artistic and creative outputs. Optic Noise strives to celebrate those working in the creative industries by showcasing the work of multiple creative sectors such as, music, art, photography and dance, all in one place. Each featured creative will be given the same song to interpret and create something that tells their own story of being a creative today, highlighting the importance of creativity in the modern world.
Triumph
Strangers
The First Bell
Haunted is about a situation where you have been feeling trapped for a long time, and looking out the other side to where it will get better.
Credits:
Rebekah Kirk (writer, performer), Paul McInally (Producer, Sound Engineer)
“They’ll Never See” is an Indie/Celtic big chorus anthem with political themes of social injustice. Released in 2019, the song proved popular, gaining over one thousand streams in its first few days.
Credits:
Niall Gibson
"Our latest single, Pomposity, is a song that reflects on past situations and returning to the same relationship that I know I shouldn’t get involved with. Dwelling on these old scenarios can often be a bad thing, but the song tries to look at it in a positive way and poke fun at the feelings I had in that time. It is great to be back in the studio after months away and it is a fresh sound we are pursuing, which has spent time evolving in the covid stricken background."
Credits
Writer - Grant Scott. Artists - Grant Scott, Calvin Smith, Harvey Boyle, Russell McInnes. Producer/Engineer - Jamie Holmes.
Creative Music Product Design is an introduction to the creative skills and techniques required for a holistic / corporate approach to music product design and development.
With an emphasis on design of a product and appropriate promotion to suit an opportunity students identify in the marketplace, CMPD encourages multifaceted project management skills to ensure that each aspect of the product displays a corporate identity appropriate to the target market.
Due to the Covid-19 crisis this module has been facilitated predominantly online with the students developing innovative entrepreneurial practice in order to produce in this unique environment.
Below are some of the ongoing music products students are working on.
Confetti
Online
Can't Keep Promises