Course Objectives
- Develop your compositional and technical skills
- Develop your orchestrational skills for live instruments and the digital world
- Expand your knowledge in screen music composition
- Identify the predominant creative approaches for contemporary screen music.
- Create revisions to your music based on constructive feedback and discussion
- Create professional music and scores utilizing the tools at your disposal. Compose using an efficient, well-defined, and consistent workflow.
Assessment
You are expected to work individually a minimum of 9 hours per week for the 15 weeks of the semester, or the equivalent to 135 hours of work for the whole semester. This work should be in addition to the work done in other classes, even if they are both composition-focused.
In class, you will bring in the projects or compositions you are working on, either from NYU-related projects (program recording sessions, collaborations with film, video game, or journalism schools, concerts, etc.) or projects you are working on outside of the opportunities offered by NYU. In addition, your instructor will assign other work whenever necessary.
You will also be graded on how you compose, prepare, and follow the guidelines for the program recording sessions. For each recording session you are assigned to, select a clip to score and bring a first draft to class with enough time to receive critiques. Then, you will bring revisions, as well as the score and parts to be checked by your instructor. During the recording sessions, you will participate in the experience and provide useful feedback to the producers or the performers.
Professors