Music Production and Recording II (MPR504)


Course description for study year 2025-2026

See course description and exam/assesment information for this semester (2024-2025)
Facts

Course code

MPR504

Version

1

Credits (ECTS)

30

Semester tution start

Spring

Number of semesters

1

Exam semester

Spring

Language of instruction

English, Norwegian

Offered by
Time table

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Content

This course covers aspects of music production and recording, building on the knowledge gained in MPR 503 Music Production and Recording I. 

Students will work with a wide variety of concert and studio recordings, including their own projects. Students will participate in group projects and assignments.

Learning outcome

Students completing MPR504: Music Production and Recording Practice II will have gained a variety of practical experience and advanced knowledge of music production and recording, enabling them to enhance their professional careers.

Knowledge and understanding

  • Students can understand and reflect upon artistic practice, concept development and project management, and can identify artistic and technical challenges in relation to music production and recording.

Skills

  • Students can communicate and discuss issues relating to music production.

  • Students will master music production-related methods, tools and modes of expression, and general skills relating to professional practices within music production and recording.

  • Students will evaluate and choose between the discipline's methods and tools, and propose new expressions and solution models based on artistic aesthetics.

  • Students will have a good understanding of entrepreneurship, as well as best practices, within the music production industry.

Competencies

  • Students can manage complex situations that require creative technical and artistic solutions.

  • Students can take independent responsibility for their own professional research and development. 

Required prerequisite knowledge

MPR503 Music Production and Recording I

MPR503- Music Production and Recording I

Exam

Form of assessment Weight Duration Marks Aid
Portfolio 1/1 Passed / Not Passed

Students are required to do a 1 hour presentation of an individual project along with supporting documentation.Students are required to deliver a portfolio of 8-10 completed music productions and project reports at the end of the semester. All materials shall be delivered via https://filesender.sikt.no.

Coursework requirements

Students are required to attend lectures, participate in ongoing classroom discussions, and actively practice their music production and recording techniques by working with self-selected and assigned projects. 

Course teacher(s)

Course coordinator:

Mark William Drews

Study Adviser:

Lena Crosby Haug

Method of work

Individual study supported with individual guidance, group lectures, and master classes.

Guided and independent production and recording of concert and studio productions.

Overlapping courses

Course Reduction (SP)
Music Production and Recording Research II (MPR502_1) 15
Music Production and Recording Practice II (MPR542_1) 15

Open for

Music Production and Recording - Graduate studies

Course assessment

The faculty decides whether early dialogue should be conducted in all or selected groups of courses offered by the faculty. The purpose is to gather feedback from students for making changes and adjustments to the course during the current semester. In addition, a digital evaluation, students’ course evaluation, must be conducted at least once every three years. Its purpose is to collect students` experiences with the course.

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