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rarescale Summer School: Bursaries

Posted: 23/04/19 09:12 | 0 Comments

OCASA has generously agreed to make two bursaries of £200 available for OCA students to attend the 2019 rarescale Summer School.

OCA Music Web Chats

Music study events

Posted: 17/10/18 09:06 | 0 Comments

Join Music Programme Leader Carla Rees and fellow music students for a series of informal web chats from your own home.

New music courses on the way!

course Music

Posted: 20/09/18 09:46 | 0 Comments

I am happy to announce that two more music courses are currently being written. Both of the courses form level 5 options in preparation for a specialism for the body of work at level 6.

OCA music team announcement

Music Tutor

Posted: 10/07/18 10:28 | 2 Comments

I am sorry to announce that Douglas Seville, passed away recently after a brief illness. Douglas joined the OCA as a music tutor in 1997.

Review: New Music Collective

Music study visit review

Posted: 30/05/18 09:38 | 0 Comments

The New Music Collective met at Iklectik in London on 17 March, for a study day based on collaboration. A month before the event, the students were asked to work in pairs to produce new work to be presented on the day. Each student had to take part in the project both as a performer and composer, but they were able to choose how whether to write together or separately.

Composition bursaries available

Music study visit

Posted: 02/05/18 09:39 | 0 Comments

OCASA has generously agreed to fund a small number of bursaries to enable OCA students to attend this year’s rarescale Summer School at Harlaxton Manor.
The course is an intensive week of creative music making, composition and collaboration, under the guidance of composer Michael Oliva (professor of composition at the Royal College of Music in London) and Carla Rees, OCA’s music programme leader.

Musical Collaboration: The Next meeting of the OCA’s New Music Collective

Music

Posted: 05/02/18 09:50 | 0 Comments

The New Music Collective will meet again on 17 March 2018 at Iklectik Art Lab, in London. Following on from our work on group composition, individual performance and improvisation, the theme of this meeting is collaboration

Introducing Dorico – the Future of Music Notation Software?

Music software

Posted: 29/01/18 11:18 | 1 Comments

OCA music students are required to submit digital versions of their scores for assessment, and a proportion of the marks are given for the quality of typesetting and presentation of notation. It is important that the assessors are experienced in the choice of software used, allowing them to judge the student’s original work and to recognise how much of the presentation is automatically generated within the program.

Emma Arandjelovic

Music student work

Posted: 13/07/17 09:42 | 9 Comments

Emma’s composition 1 submission was outstanding, and serves as an excellent example of what can be achieved within the brief for each assignment. While her work had a consistency of quality throughout, the counterpoint exercise at Assignment 4 was particularly worthy of note.

rarescale Summer School

Music study visit

Posted: 20/03/17 09:16 | 0 Comments

Once again, the Open College of the Arts are offering subsidised places to attend rarescale’s composition summer school. This residential week takes place at Harlaxton Manor near Grantham, Lincolnshire from 31 July to 5 August, with tutors Carla Rees and Michael Oliva.