Getting started with UCAS

This week we are focusing the following:

Register with ucas.com - your year of entry will be 21/22 (you can defer later if you want), the buzzword is westking2021 and you need to specify me as your tutor when that option comes up. I will guide you through the sections like finance and education in tutorials. If you are unsure then leave it out! I will help you. There are also little question marks next to most bits that will give you help.

When you are asked for your ULN (unique learner number), you can probably find it on ProPortal and the new system but I can give it to you later if you can't find it now.

I advise taking the ucas buzz quiz to gain some insight into what may work well for you. Do not take the results literally - it is simply an activity to help you think.

NB - please only register and complete the Personal Details, Additional info and Employment sections until we do the rest in tutorial.

In your free time, have a look at courses - in your tutorial, I will show you how to navigate the UCAS course search but you must also look at the course page on the university website. Try these universities to get going:

https://www.acm.ac.uk/campus-acm-london/
https://www.icmp.ac.uk/
https://www.gold.ac.uk/
https://www.herts.ac.uk/
https://www.bimm.co.uk/
https://www.mdx.ac.uk/
https://www.lcm.ac.uk/
https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/
https://www.hud.ac.uk
https://www.uel.ac.uk/
https://www.uwl.ac.uk/

For now, don't think too much about the location but see what the modules they offer are. Once you know what's out there then you can search more specifically by location.

Make notes about courses and what the entry requirements are - please also submit this on classroom (there is an assignment question).  If I know what you want to do and what you need in order to be able to do it, I can help you more.


4) Potentially, book careers meeting - if you also want to look at alternatives to university, or even studying abroad, they can help you. http://www.careerswkc.com


If you want to study at a conservatoire then please read this guide and let me know ASAP - https://www.ucas.com/conservatoires

COVID and the music industry

The music industry has been massively affected by COVID. Festivals, gigs, recording sessions, rehearsals and video shoots all had to be cancelled. For freelance musicians/promoters and small venues, this meant that they had no way to earn a living or progress what they do. Some events were postponed. Some people managed to record and release at home. But many couldn't. Every aspect of the industry has been affected and had to adapt.

What have you noticed about how industry has been affected? How have you been affected? 

Please do some research and read these articles to start you off:  

Can the music industry survive COVID? (Independent, April 2020)

IFPI music industry response to COVID

Coronavirus Might Kill The Music Industry. Maybe It Needed To Die (Esquire magazine)

Social Distancing Festival 

You have 30 minutes to think, research and add your ideas to the jamboard before we reconvene to discuss.

Bandlab

 Whilst some fo your classes will be online, we will be using Bandlab so that you can work from home if you don't have access to Logic. Your individual class teachers will give you links to access specific classes but it's worth having a look around in advance.

BANDLAB

Processing Found Sounds

VT3 Voice Transformer

User manual

1990s

In the 1990s, we were still under a conservative government but that changed when Labour came into power in 1997. It was a decade that was subject to massive technological developments including mass use of the internet, music genres both emerging and reviving older styles and the class divide was still very much evident.

Research starter questions:

• What was the gulf war about and what effect did it have?
• How did rap music change in the Uk and USA?
• How did BritPop reflect society?
• What other genres were emerging and how were they similar to those of previous decades?

Some resources to start you off:
BRITPOP article
An article from 1991 predicting how the gulf war might impact on music
Gulf War
Rave Culture
The Struggle of Hip Hop in the 90s
How Rap Changed in the 90s
The Evolution of Rap (post 90s)
'Ladette' culture

Blue v Oasis




Girl Power



Rave Culture




EXTENSION TASK:

In previous decades, what examples can you find of:

Pop and gender politics

Rock and class divide

Dance and drug culture

Peripatetic Dream Team

You lucky things, you. Your peri teachers are rather good. Meet The Dream Team!

Guitar & Bass - James Sedwards (Guapo, Chrome Hoof, Nought, various). Recently he has Joined members of Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine to play with the Thurston Moore Band. They will be on tour for the first three weeks of the lessons so Alex Ward will be covering his classes. Alex plays with This Is Not This Heat as well as being one of the UKs foremost clarinet and guitar improvisers.





Drums - Ben Woollacott (Knifeworld, Medeival Baebes, Veils, various)





Piano - Bill Drake (Cardiacs and many amazing projects)





Vocals - Chantal Brown (Do Me Bad Things, Vodun, Chrome Hoof, Invasion, session work all over the place)



See her video section on her website for further sound and video section of her website.