Course content

Practical, theoretical, musical, aesthetic, ethical and artistic issues that are dealt with in the perspective of artistic development.

Research, development of ideas and planning of artistic projects

Exploration and description of related artists’ work and work methods

Experimentation, trials, work in progress with audience, response and evaluation

Final presentation and report with documentation

The course can be connected to ongoing freelance projects.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

The candidate

• Has knowledge about theoretical, musical, aesthetic, ethical and artistic issues recognized in own and other’s artistic work
• Has knowledge about how to plan and develop an artistic project
• Has knowledge about how to seek inspiration from other sources and implement in own work
• Has knowledge about creating situations for exploring, discussing and evaluating as part of an artistic process
• Has knowledge about documenting and sharing

Skills

The candidate

• Can recognize and reflect on relevant issues in own artistic work
• Can initiate, plan and lead artistic project work
• Can develop and form a project through experiments, process sharing and evaluation
• Can contribute to discussions of various artistic project
• Can document and share project work

Learning methods and activities

Project work related to or relevant to (parts of) the master project. Cooperation in groups is possible. Compulsory seminars and group discussions in combination with individual work. Independent work between seminars is core activity. Courses and activities at other parts of NTNU and/or outside of the institution that fits the project can be part of /replace selected compulsory activities.

Compulsory assignments

• Satisfactory participation in compulsory instruction.

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

Requires admission to Master' Degree Programme in Music Performance.

The course is based on group discussions and will need a minimum of 3 students to run.