In Focus: Music and Impact
This module explores how music and sound has and can be used as a medium for impact
This module explores how music and sound has and can be used as a medium for impact.
Taught sessions will cover a range of political, social, and cultural movements in which music has played a role in driving change.
Students will explore how to apply this knowledge to global challenges.
The Arts for Positive Change
Students will explore avenues to create real-life impact through musical projects and they will be carrying out their own impact project. They will also learn how to evaluate their impact through relevant frameworks.
This module encourages students to consider the difference they can make to society through their musical practice, whether as a performer, composer, educator or organiser.
Opportunities include:
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'Teaching in schools
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<Community music
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ÉMultimedia composition
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FOrchestral work
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ÄInstrumental teaching
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?Music therapy
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)Composition work
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ÄMusic GCSE coaching
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3Beatbox workshops
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4Choir coaching
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}Instrumental performance
Student Projects
What have our students gained from their involvement?
- Large professional CVs
- Insights into professional working practice which feeds into modular study and their professional outlook
- Professional references
- Assistance in further education application
- Prestigious performances with valuable network opportunities
- Professional etiquette
- Professional advice from industry contacts
- Professional confidence
- Wages (Some students have earned a thousand pounds plus, because of their involvement with our opportunities)
- Employment whilst studying, or upon leaving the °µÍø½âÃÜ.
- An advantage over many of their peers
Community industry partners
We work with a number of different partners including:
Academic staff
Nuria Bonet, leads this module and has practical experience as a composer and a project manager for community arts events such as the f.ex. Back to Music project which brought together disabled musicians and Music students.
The sounds of Queen Canute
Former ICCMR PhD student, Nuria Bonet, now a Lecturer in Music at the University talks about her project on musification of data her composition Queen Canute, for seagulls and clarinet.