Screen Music Forum

Catalog description

This large discussion and exploration lab is designed to be taken by the first and second year MFA composers together in each of the first four semesters, exploring the larger connections and implications embodied in media music (historic, aesthetic, business/financial, etc.) and how they manifest and overlap in the actual working processes and resulting works of media art and entertainment. Topics and areas covered over a two-year span include analysis of visual media works and their use of music; various creative work techniques and their connections to the final result; contracts, production budgets and other business considerations, their integration into the creative work flow, and their effect on the artistic results; exploration of the interpersonal aspects of our art and craft, from collaborative strategies to networking; self-marketing and branding, and the connections between publicity and the creative work. Topics will often be approached first hands-on in work groups, and then put in a larger context in discussion with the whole group. Visiting artists and guest speakers round out the two-year experience.