MUSIC

BACHELOR OF MUSIC PRODUCTION

Level 5

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE - CC500

Credit Points: 30
This 36-week course provides a platform for engagement with transferable skills via collaborative
client projects which may include contracted roles within projects of more advanced student
groups. With a key focus on employability in Aotearoa/New Zealand students engage with
professional practice situated in the holistic ideals of Te Ao Maori. Students conduct peer review
via the Transferable Skills Matrix in an effort to foster and develop employability skills.

HOUSE - MP501

Credit Points: 15
This project introduces students to an essential range of music production tools and techniques
with a central focus on House music and related genre families. Composition, production and
mixing techniques are discussed and explored, with practical outcomes being the production of
two music projects using Ableton Live software.
Students will be creating musical compositions based on personal research into the genre of
House music. Research and critique skills will be developed and assessed leading towards a final
creative output.

HIP HOP - MP502

Credit Points: 15
This project furthers the concept of genre families with a focus on Hip Hop. Composition and
production techniques common to sub-genres of Hip Hop are discussed and explored, with
practical outcomes. Students will be creating musical compositions based on personal research
into the genre of Hip Hop music. Research and critique skills will be developed and assessed
leading towards a final creative output.
DOWNTEMPO - MP503

Credit Points: 15
This project furthers the concept of genre families with a focus on Downtempo. Composition and
production techniques common to sub-genres of Downtempo are discussed and explored, with
practical outcomes. Students will be creating musical compositions based on personal research
into the genre of Downtempo music. Research and critique skills will be developed and assessed
leading towards a final creative output.

HUNTER-GATHERER - MP504

Credit Points: 15
This project requires the student to deliver a recorded composition that offers a recombination of
elements which could include compositional techniques, instruments, media, production
techniques and traditions, language and location. Includes a reflective blog that discusses the
elements recombined, their technological and/or historical backdrop and the techniques used to
achieve the hybrid.

PIONEER - MP505

Credit Points: 15
This project requires students to identify a key practitioner and explore their innovative practice as
a contribution to the music production community. Students develop an audio production that
emulates the qualities of the identified practice. Additionally, this course requires students to write
an essay and deliver a seminar presentation to reflect the engagement with historical traditions
and the implications in a contemporary setting

TIROHANGA - CC506

Credit Points: 15
Requires groups to produce a suite of outputs that display an individualised integration of
production techniques acquired over the previous courses. Includes a reflective blog on the
multiple ways such integration occurs and the effectiveness of such.

Level 6
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 2 - CC600

Credit Points: 30
This 36-week course provides a platform for engagement with transferable skills via Work-
Integrated Learning and collaborative client projects which may include contracted roles within
projects of more advanced student groups. Students will accumulate 40 hours of Work-Integrated
Learning via professional industry placement. Students and WIL clients conduct peer review via
the Transferable Skills Framework in an effort to foster and develop employability skills.

RECREATE: RECOMPOSE - MP601

Credit Points: 15
ReCreate/ReCompose, otherwise known as Akaaka, further explores the concept of genres
through the creation and manipulation of musical material. This course will introduce you to the
MIDI programming and remixing techniques. Using various MIDI programming and music
production skills you will recreate and recompose a song of your choice and create your own
assets to achieve multiple stylistic outcomes. The sonic outputs will be subject to peer analysis
and critique and discussed in terms of technical proficiency, sonic attributes and genre
implications. Experiential learning and reflection will be the basis of the project- based learning
experience.

ZEITGEIST - CC602

Credit Points: 15
In CC602 Zeitgeist students will examine the relationship between social and technological context
and creative outputs. Students will choose a heritage screen or sonic product to explore and
reflect upon its cultural/historical backdrop. Students will compose/produce a replica to meet the
genre and/or stylistic characteristics of the original, and give consideration for how that product
can be re-contextualised in a modern era.

MUSIC COLLABORATION: AOTEAROA 1 - MP603

Credit Points: 15
Students engage with the history of Aotearoa New Zealand music and its current industry.
Examining multiple genres and relevant practice, students will create a music production that
either artistically or critically responds to a cultural aspect of an Aotearoa New Zealand music
aesthetic. This is a collaborative project co-taught with MP703, the students of which will assign
production roles, deadlines and deliverables.
FUTURIST/ANARCHIST - CC604

Credit Points: 15
Identify a current published writer/producer in the context of Futurist- Anarchist. Explore and reflect
upon their most impactful work. Produce a screen or sonic output displaying a range of avant-
garde compositional and production techniques. Create a reflective blog discussing the tools and
techniques developed and applied.

KO TE AO WH?NUI: MUSIC - MP605

Credit Points: 15
Given the need for practitioners to have a global view and an appreciation of wider cultural
practice, MP605 provides an opportunity for students to not only express their personal culture but
also to gain insight into cultures less familiar to them. A contemporary World Music project:
students research and reflect upon representation of culture in international audio-visual works
and relevant industry practices by region. Students produce an audio/visual output offering insight
into previously unfamiliar cultural practice. Reflective content is included within the work.

PRODUCTION PROFILE - CC606

Credit Points: 15
Students provide technical production crew support for those enrolled in Level 7 interdisciplinary
collaborative course CC705 Fundamental Project Production. Students enrolled in CC606 will
pitch for the various production roles on offer and under Facilitator supervision, Level 7 students
will assign production roles and together groups will develop and deliver approved creative
research-informed sonic-screen projects. The key focus is effective engagement with assigned
responsibilities, deadlines and deliverables in a group dynamic.

Level 7

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 3 - CC700

Credit Points: 30
This 36-week course provides a platform for engagement with transferable skills via Work-
Integrated Learning and collaborative client projects which will include assigning roles to and
evaluating the performance of less advanced student groups. Students will accumulate 40 hours of
Work-Integrated Learning via professional industry placement. Students and WIL clients conduct
peer review via the Transferable Skills Framework in an effort to foster and develop employability
skills.

Tuakana-Teina project
Level 7 and 5 students are partnered in an informal facilitated mentor programme. The Tuakana
(mentor) provides leadership and assistance for the Teina (mentee) and includes the mentee in
the culture and community of the Level 7 projects.

TE AO M?ORI - CC701

Credit Points: 15
To engage with and critically reflect upon the unique cultural landscape of Aotearoa and to
personally reflect upon its values and meaning. Visits to places of cultural significance and
engagement with local iwi will underpin facilitated studio sessions. Students will collaboratively
produce an audio-visual product to holistically represent and reflect chosen aspects of this.

CREATIVE MUSIC SPECIALIZATION - MP702

Credit Points: 15
In a specialisation relating to music production, students nominate a topic for further study and
conduct supervised research through collaborative creative practice. This framework will be used
to develop a project proposal. The project proposal will outline a creative project that they will
undertake in the second half of the course.

MUSIC COLLABORATION: AOTEAROA 2 - MP703

Credit Points: 15
Students engage with the history of Aotearoa New Zealand music and its current industry.
Examining style and genre students will create a music production that either artistically or critically
responds to a cultural aspect of Aotearoa New Zealand music aesthetic. This is a collaborative
project co-taught with MP603, the students of which will be assigned production roles, deadlines
and deliverables. In this course students will be developing and overseeing the creation of a
musical compilation (EP) that responds to a cultural aspect of an Aotearoa New Zealand music
aesthetic. Level 7 students will be guiding the level 6 students to produce content that aligns with
the vision for the musical compilation.
FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT DESIGN - CC704

Credit Points: 15
In this design phase that informs CC705 Fundamental Project Production, students collaboratively
develop and pitch multiple sonic-screen project briefs viable for delivery within the CC705
timeframe. Peer review, critique, reflection and industry practitioners pitch sessions inform the final
project focus, technologies, methodologies and delivery modes. The scope of the project should
be finely tuned with creative and production duties defined and assigned.

FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT PRODUCTION - CC705

Credit Points: 30
A single trimester interdisciplinary collaborative course for Level 7 Screen, Audio and Music
Production students, with production crew support from Level 6 students enrolled in CC606
Production Profile. Under Facilitator supervision, groups develop and deliver approved creative
research-informed sonic-screen projects. The key focus is the assignment, management and
review of project partner work responsibilities, deadlines and deliverables. A key driver is the
critical engagement with the context of interdisciplinary research by creative practice, as opposed
to the duration of work

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