This unit replaces 101095 - Music Composition. This unit provides students with a firm grasp of and practical experience in the range of compositional techniques and skills required as a composer within a range of commonly-employed artistic media and genres. These skills will provide the basis for professional compositional activity. Students will cover issues at a theoretical level through lectures and tutorials, and in a practical fashion through assigned composition exercises and collaborations with musicians.

This unit replaces 101092 - Music Performance 4: The Composer-Performer. Students are required to both perform and compose in this unit. While students may choose to perform their own work, this unit also offers the opportunity for students to experience the particular challenges and rewards offered by the close collaboration entailed in both sides of the composer/performer interface. Each student will choose a balance of performance and composition tasks appropriate to her/his specific musical path. The unit presents basic compositional techniques and canvasses issues regarding the composer/performer relationship through a series of lectures, tutorials and workshops. Students will also continue to develop their event administration skills.

This unit replaces 101096 - Music Composition Advanced. This unit extends on the practical experience in the range of compositional techniques and skills in the preceding unit Music Composition: Concepts and Creativity. Students will work in a wide variety of commonly-employed artistic media and genres at a higher level than in the preceding unit. They will acquire the ability to write for larger instrumental and vocal groups and be encouraged to undertake projects that interact with other media. Theoretical issues will be presented in lectures and tutorials, and in a practical fashion through assigned composition exercises. Students will undertake collaborations with musicians and/or practitioners in other art forms.

This unit replaces 101145 - Digital Musics 6: Performance Contexts. This unit is the final stage in the Composition and Sound Technologies sub-major sequences. The unit is also available to Media Arts Production students. The unit aims to prepare students creatively and technically to undertake self-directed sound composition projects for screen media. The areas to be examined include: sound studio techniques, mix processing for compact disc and DVD, an introduction to surround audio techniques, sound composition (score-based and/or sound-scape) for screen, film spotting for sound, audio-visual interactions, and professional communication/pitching of sound composition proposals. Each student produces a complete sound-composition for screen package (including sound composition, compact disc recording, DVD product, and promotional documentation and samples