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Educational Resources

Introduction

By Amanda Glauert PhD, MA, ARCM, Hon RAM Head of Academic Development

(Picture: Photo of Amanda Glauert)

Amanda read music at Clare College, Cambridge and completed her doctoral studies at Goldsmiths College, London. She brings to the role of Head of Academic Development her many years’ experience as a teacher and researcher in the areas of performance aesthetics and analysis. A violinist herself, she has had much experience (inside and outside the Academy) in designing forms of educational provision that unite music’s theory and practice. Her own research focuses on theories of the lyric and the history of the German Lied; she has published books and articles on the songs of Hugo Wolf and Beethoven.

At the Academy, we are committed to offering you the educational resources to extend your creative horizons as a musician — whether through helping you discover new ways of communicating with audiences of the future, or through reflecting on musical practices of the past. We believe entrepreneurial and critical skills are vital if performers and composers are to trace their own path through the musical profession.

Your principal-study teacher provides the essential focus for your creative life at the Academy. However, in the following pages you can learn of additional ways for you to develop your potential as a musician within the Academy’s rich and varied educational environment.

The Academy has a unique history, but also a unique future which it wants every student to be part of.


Creative Technology

Email technology@ram.ac.uk

(Picture: Photo of Antony Pitts Senior Lecturer in Creative Technology)

The Creative Technology team

Senior Lecturer in Creative Technology:
Antony Pitts BA

Milton Mermikides BSc, BMus, OC (Head of Music Technology)
John Drinkwater GTCL, LTCL (Lecturer in Technology)
Adam Langston (Music Technology Tutor)
Artem Vassiliev MMus (Music Technology Tutor)


‘The Academy is embracing the new technology and musical directions’
Classical Music, September 2006

The Academy has recently invested substantially in creative technology.

Creative Technology Lab (CTL)

The newly-built Creative Technology Lab (Winner of the ULU Laurel Award) is a professional recording, composition, synthesis, restoration, mixing and mastering studio of the highest level and sits at the heart of the Academy’s musical vision for an increasingly high-tech future. The CTL hosts an annual programme of events and research projects, and provides resources for the teaching of music technology at the Academy. The CTL offers composers, performers and researchers access to audio and video recording/editing, and to the latest developments in electroacoustic/electronic music and audio analysis.

Creative Technology Suite

The Creative Technology Suite incorporates a number of studios and teaching rooms with an array of music technology including Powerbook mobile audio systems, wireless motion sensors, hyper instruments, MAX/MSP, Jitter, the IRCAM software suite, plus Sibelius and Finale notation software and Sequoia/ Samplitude editing software on desktop and Tablet PCs. The CTL is run by a team with a wide range of expertise including audio analysis, psycho-acoustics, cross-media music, and research into the musical applications of Artificial Intelligence.

RAM.FM

The Creative Technology Lab is the production hub for the Academy’s web-based ‘radio’ station, which is produced by students and showcases Academy generated music and events. Production, broadcasting, and multimedia skills are taught formally and shared outside the classroom through the Academy’s intranet.

RAM Central

The Academy’s intranet is the portal for all electronic communication, including news, diaries, timetables, email, digital coursework, RAM.FM, and the RAMline.

The RAMline

In 2006, the Academy began building a unique index of digitized archives and online resources, together with a specialised tool that allows this index to be browsed and searched intuitively by students, staff and visitors. As well as an ever-expanding catalogue of musicians and of musical works, the RAMline links to manuscript sources and published editions, live performances and recordings, musical criticism and comment. The RAMline simultaneously displays a timeline of musical history and the life-cycle of any piece of music, from antiquity to the present, and will be used to chart each student’s musical profile at the Academy and beyond.

(Picture: Photo of Composer Patrick Nunn and cellist Peter Gregson working with the ‘hyperbow’ — a collaboration with the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT.)