Faculty of Arts and Humanities
School of Media and Performing Arts
Academic Year: 2020-21
Project Leaders: Adam Collis, Benoit Granier
Partner University(s)/Organisation(s): Accademia del Suono (Italy), Hong Kong Design Institute (Hong Kong), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Project Overview:
Reflecting their global outlook, the Music Technology team developed a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project for their second-year students. They set up a 3-way partnership with HEIs in Hong Kong and Milan, Italy, working with colleagues to devise a challenging and fun brief – to collaborate and make a piece of music that reflected the interests and backgrounds of all team members.
Students worked in groups with peers from each of the other institutes after getting to know each other through some fun activities and challenges. Each team created exciting and original music based on their area of interest, cultural background and musical skills that reflected the diversity of the teams. The students shared their work in a Zoom presentation with each group explaining the process of creating their music. The music themes included New York, rock band and a singing cat.
Online Tools Used: Email, Facebook, Open Moodle
This COIL project won the prestigious Alliance Award for developing an internationally collaborative music creation project.