Certificate in Contemporary Music 2016 For International Applicants

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1 Certificate in Contemporary Music 2016 For Internationa Appicants Quaification Certificate in Contemporary Music Performance Programme eve: Leve 4 Length: Start dates: Study options: One year 15 February Fu-time Fees: $19,200 Additiona costs: $300 approximatey USB Data Drive (min 500GB), USB stick (Min 2GB) and bank CDs, DVDs) Tota number of credits: 120 Cass times: Individua study hours: Location: Contact: Casses are schedued Monday to Friday between 9.00am and 3.00pm 15 hours per week Napier Campus The Internationa Team Emai: internationa@eit.ac.nz This 34-week programme studies popuar music with an emphasis on ive performance. Students form bands performing and earning about a variety of different music styes throughout the year such as homegrown, bues, reggae, hip hop/r&b, rock and pop. This is a Music Audio Institute of New Zeaand quaification that is deivered at EIT. Graduates of this programme are abe to: Demonstrate proficiency on their speciaist instrument. Perform within an instrumenta ensembe to an industry standard commensurate with paid performance work at sma to medium-sized venues as are commony found in the New Zeaand music industry. Deveop skis in the use of music theory, anaysis and technoogy to effectivey communicate musica ideas. Have knowedge of the music industry and the business of music. Have the skis and knowedge to be abe to participate successfuy in the music industry as fu-time or part-time professiona performers and composers of origina music and/or to move on to further training in the areas of audio engineering, music event management or other careers in the creative sector. get our app search ideaschoo facebook.com/ ideaschooat cataogue.ideaschoo.ac.nz ideaschoo - arts & thinking

2 Study pathways Subject areas Live sound Recording techniques Performance Composition and arranging Music theory Listening anaysis and music appreciation Music industry studies Music computer software Commercia composition Scoring for fim The Certificate in Contemporary Music Performance can ead onto further study in: (MAINZ) Certificate in Audio Engineering - Leve 4/5 (Auckand) (MAINZ) Dipoma of Contemporary Music - Leve 5/6 (Auckand and Christchurch) (EIT) Dipoma in Screen Production - Leve 6 (Hawke's Bay) Entry requirements Seection process Appicants must be abe to pay a musica instrument and/or sing confidenty and competenty in front of others. A short written questionnaire wi determine computer iteracy at the time of the audition. Standard entry Appicants must attend an audition interview. Preference is given to appicants who demonstrate musica abiity and have NCEA Leve 2 or equivaent, or a work history indicating reiabiity and motivation. Appicants shoud have studied music or have performance experience. Stricty imited paces. Non-standard entry If you are over 20 and do not meet the criteria above, you may sti appy but your acceptance on the programme wi be at the discretion of the Programme Co-ordinator, who wi be ooking at evidence of abiity to succeed, e.g. maturity, ife and work experience, succeed in other study. Programme dates Semester one Programme starts Monday 15 February 2016 Easter hoidays March Term one hoidays 15 Apri - 29 Apri Term two starts Monday, 2 May ANZAC Day Monday, 25 Apri Queen s Birthday Monday, 6 June Semester one ends Friday, 24 June Mid year hoiday 27 June - 15 Juy Semester two Appicants Pease compete your enroment form and a witnessed copy of your Passport or Birth Certificate (i.e. photocopies must be signed by a JP or an EIT Facuty/Registry administration staff member stating that the origina Certified Birth Certificate / Passport has been sighted). Engish anguage entry requirement Students are required to have attained an acceptabe eve of Engish anguage fuency. This may be demonstrated in a variety of ways, incuding successfu study in Engish, competion of a New Zeaand Certificate in Engish Language (Leve 3), approved scores on IELTS tests (5.5 Academic with no band score ower than 5.0), competion of accepted internationa equivaents, or competion of an EIT Hawke s Bay assessment. Entry with credit For information and enquiries about Recognition of Prior Learning and Cross Credit pease contact Trent Mabbett, teephone (06) , ext This quaification has been approved by the New Zeaand Quaifications Authority. Programme starts Monday, 18 Juy Term three hoidays 26 September - 7 October Term four starts Monday, 10 October HB Anniversary Day Friday, 21 October Labour Day Monday, 24 October Programme ends Friday, 25 November ideaschoo - arts & thinking

3 Faciities EIT s brand new music department offers two band sized rehearsa rooms which can be converted into ive recording studios, aong with an isoated voca recording booth. Recorded projects can then be mixed and edited in the main Appe Macintosh suite using state of the art software (Pro Too, Abeton Live, Garageband) with professiona monitoring systems and hardware. Sound insuated rooms mean students can rehearse and practice under fu performance conditions without fear of disturbing other casses on campus. Job opportunities Music Performer Music Producer Session Musician Speciaist Instrument Tutor Assistant Recording Engineer Assessments Theory components wi be assessed by written/mutipe choice assessments. Practica assessments wi be given throughout the year and on-going assessments are done during practica exercises. Assistant Performance Engineer Academic staff ideaschoo is headed by Chris Verburg. Chris has a background in sound engineering, and brings over 20 years experience in the New Zeaand fim industry to his roe. The Programme Coordinator is Tom Pierard. We vaue our partnership with students and aim to provide quaity education in a supportive environment, encouraging persona growth and professiona deveopment. Students wi be encouraged to assist in oca music productions as opportunities arise. Name Tom Pierard Quaifications BMus (Performance) Tom s career as a professiona percussionist has seen him perform and tour extensivey both nationay and internationay. He has given master casses and run workshops throughout the word, and has twice participated and performed at the prestigious Taiwan Internationa Percussion Convention invitationa. Primariy a drumset speciaist, the ast few years have seen him work as a session payer in Weington - you can hear his work with such names as Rhian Sheehan, Strike Percussion, The Famiy Cactus and many more. Matiu Whiting Matiu Whiting studied Jazz and Cassica at the New Zeaand Schoo of Music where he attained an honours degree in Music Performance. He has spent time paying with various Orchestras around the country as we as various theatre productions and with numerous smaer groups paying genres and styes as disparate as Latin america, Rock, Gipsy, Jazz and Hip Hop to name a few. Sarah Terry BMus (Sonic Arts) After studying at the Neson schoo of Music, Sarah competed a degree in Sonic Arts with Victoria University. Since then she has produced two studio abums, and performs reguary around NZ as a versatie singer/songwriter. Part Time Lecturers Winston Pitt, Anton Wuts, Nick Bow and Karyn Briggs. Guest ecturers from the music industry wi aso make presentations (2-3 per year). ideaschoo - arts & thinking

4 Internationa Appication Process 01 Compete and sign our internationa student appication form 02 Attach certified copies transated into Engish of your: Passport or birth certificate Proof of name change (if appicabe) Evidence of your Engish anguage proficiency ie. IELTS or equivaent Academic transcripts and quaification certificates Pease note that some programmes may require you to submit additiona documentation such as your Curricuum Vitae, portfoio or references. Pease check our website for any programme specific documentation required. 03 Send your appication to us The easiest way is to send it by emai to We d aso be happy to accept it by post. You can aso now appy onine at 04 We wi assess your appication and et you know the outcome as soon as possibe If you are accepted we wi send you an Offer of Pace aong with detais of the fees payabe. If you do not meet a of the entry criteria we may issue you with a Conditiona Offer of Pace. You wi need to meet a of the conditions as set out on your Offer of Pace before you can appy for your Student Visa. 05 Pay your fees and appy for your Student Visa Discaimer. Information contained in this pubication is correct at the time of printing, but may be subject to change. Whie a reasonabe efforts wi be made to ensure isted programmes/courses are offered and reguations are current, the Institute reserves the right to change content or method of deivery, to withdraw any programme or course of study, or to impose imitations on enroment, shoud circumstances require this. Some programmes/courses mentioned in EIT pubications are offered subject to fina approva and accreditation or to efficient enroments being received. For the atest information visit our website. ideaschoo - arts & thinking Once you have accepted your offer to study with us and paid your fees, we wi send you a receipt that you wi need to submit when appying for your visa. Detais on appying for your Student Visa are avaiabe on the Immigration New Zeaand website 06 Let us know your arriva detais Once your visa has been approved you can then book your fights. Pease et us know your arriva detais whether you be iving in EIT accommodation or not. If you are staying in EIT accommodation, we wi arrange for you to be coected from the Napier airport for FREE. Pease note that you must be 18 years of age or oder when you begin your studies at EIT.

5 Course descriptions Course No. Brief Description No. of Credits NZQA Leve CCM4.01 Music Knowedge Aim: To provide students with an understanding of music concepts incuding written musica notation, pitch, rhythm and harmony. Demonstrate an understanding of standard forms of written musica notation Demonstrate an understanding of pitch in music Demonstrate an understanding of rhythm in music Demonstrate an understanding of harmony in music CCM4.02 Music Knowedge Aim: To buid on the skis and knowedge from Music Knowedge 1 so that the students wi have the skis and knowedge to anayse music styes and to compose music in a range of styes. Anayse popuar music styes Compose music in a range of popuar styes Produce an Extended Pay CCM4.03 Music Performance Aim: To provide students with the skis to perform before a ive audience on a chosen instrument. Prepare a persona earning pan for deveoping musica skis and technique on a seected instrument Impement a persona earning pan for deveoping musica skis and technique on a seected instrument Perform two prepared musica pieces on a seected instrument before a ive audience CCM4.04 Music Performance Aim: To buid on the performance skis from Music Performance 1 so that students are abe to perform a variety of songs as part of a band, in a variety of musica styes. Perform a series of mini concerts in a range of styes and genres as part of a band before a ive audience Range: at east four songs (incuding one origina) in at east eight musica styes, totaing 32 songs. ideaschoo - arts & thinking

6 Course No. Brief Description No. of Credits NZQA Leve CCM4.05 Music Technoogy 24 4 Aim: To provide students with knowedge reated to the technoogica aspects of sound. Describe the nature of sound and its movement through air and other media Describe the harmonic series Describe the enveope of a sound Demonstrate an understanding of human hearing Demonstrate an understanding of ive sound equipment Use muti-track recording equipment to record a ive band performance Describe the music recording and production process Record ive music in a studio setting Compose music for a specified genre or appication using MIDI hardware and software CCM4.06 Working in Music 10 4 Aim: To provide students with skis and knowedge required to work in the music industry. Demonstrate an understanding of the music industry and key approaches for the dissemination and distribution of music Deveop a media package for promoting a music artist or group Deveop a written touring pan for a music artist or group Demonstrate an understanding of Music Copyright Demonstrate an understanding of managing the finances of a sma business in a music context Deveop a simpe pan for running a sma business in a music context Register with music royaties distributor APRA Buid an Artist presence using socia media and other onine toos CCM4.07 Communications 6 4 Aim: To provide students with skis in effective communication incuding ora, written, eectronic and muticutura. Communicate effectivey in speech Communicate effectivey in writing Demonstrate effective use of information and communication technoogy Demonstrate an understanding of communication in New Zeaand s muticutura society Deveop a persona earning pan for successfu study and sef management Tota ideaschoo - arts & thinking

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8 Certificate of Contemporary Music Performance 2016 Additiona Information Appicant Name: Pease ist any reevant interests, hobbies, experience: Pease give a statement (3-5 sentences) outining why you have chosen this particuar programme. Appicant Signature: Date: Thank you for providing these extra detais NB. This is not an enroment form but a form to provide us with additiona information. Pease compete this page in your own handwriting and incude it with your enroment form