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Creative Coding II - MUS00112I

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• Department: Music
• Module co-ordinator: Dr. Tom Collins
• Credit value: 20 credits
• Credit level: I
• Academic year of delivery: 2021-22
  • See module specification for other years: 2022-23 2023-24

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Module will run

Occurrence	Teaching period
A	Spring Term 2021-22 to Summer Term 2021-22

Module aims

Subject content

• Programming skills for music interfacing and creative coding
• Introduce students to different interface technologies involved in music making and audiovisual work.
• Introduce students to the issues surrounding the design of musical interfaces and context of existing work in the field.
• Give students hands-on experience of contemporary technologies and approaches to interfacing for music applications.

Academic skills and qualities

• Cultivate technical problem solving skills
• Encourage digital creativity
• Independent research
• Critical analysis (quality of algorithms, code, control and sound)

Module learning outcomes

Subject content

• Understand technologies and techniques related to both the academic study of new musical interfaces, creative coding practice and the commercial arena including relevant software and hardware.
• Be able to use different protocols to allow different software and hardware to communicate.
• Know a wide variety of existing work in the field.
• Be able to create their own musical interfaces.

Academic and graduate skills

• Technical writing
• Coding/programming
• Independent research
• Technical presentation

Assessment

Task	Length	% of module mark
Essay/coursework Questions on programming	N/A	30
Essay/coursework Software	N/A	30
Essay/coursework Technical report	N/A	30
Oral presentation/seminar/exam Presentation	N/A	10

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task	Length	% of module mark
Essay/coursework Questions on programming	N/A	30
Essay/coursework Software	N/A	30
Essay/coursework Technical report	N/A	30
Oral presentation/seminar/exam Presentation	N/A	10

Module feedback

Written feedback with mark to student within 20 working days of submission.

Indicative reading

p5.js, an online resource for learning JavaScript
https://p5js.org/

The Coding Train, videos to accompany learning JavaScript with p5.js
https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman

W3Schools, an online resource for learning web technologies
https://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp

Shiffman, Daniel (2015) Learning Processing, (2nd ed.). Morgan Kaufmann.

Turner, W., & Leonard, S. (2017) JavaScript for Sound Artists: Learn to Code with the Web Audio API. Routledge.

Cooper, A., Reimann, R., Cronin, D. and Noessel, C., 2014. About face: The essentials of interaction design. John Wiley & Sons.

Krug, S., 2013. Don't make me think: A common sense approach to web usability. New Riders.

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