Creative Music Residency at London College of Fashion
***THE DEADLINE FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY HAS NOW PASSED***
The PRS Foundation (PRSF) and London College of Fashion (LCF) are pleased to announce a new opportunity for a composer, creative musician or producer to work in residence at London College of Fashion alongside MA fashion students.
This residency is designed to explore the interdependent relationship between music and fashion and how the two disciplines are inextricably linked.
The resident will work alongside MA Fashion students investigating the role that music can play in the fashion design process. They will have the opportunity to pursue their own creative work as well as having the chance to present original music at LCF for the benefit of all students.
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The resident will also work with the MA students to present their final fashion show and will be given the opportunity to write original music for a new, conceptual fashion show which will be developed in partnership with other MA Students at LCF.
This opportunity has been developed between LCF and The PRS Foundation to provide a new and exciting opportunity for fashion students 
and a composer, creative musician or producer to fully explore the relationship between fashion and music. It is hoped that the residency will inform how fashion designers use and apply music in their future work. The residency is co-funded by LCF and the PRS Foundation.
This residency is available to experienced composers, creative musicians or producers from any genre.
The deadline for applications is 30th September 2005.
Click Here to Download the Recruitment Pack
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Notes to Editors:
London College of Fashion has an international reputation as a leading provider of fashion education, research and consultancy. The unique portfolio of specialist courses range in level, from Foundation to Postgraduate. The subject range corresponds to the process of the creation, production and promotion of fashion and the management and marketing of those activities. Many of the College's courses are unique to the UK and offer students an experience unmatched by even a handful of specialist colleges worldwide.
The PRS Foundation for New Music (PRSF) is the UK's largest independent funder purely for new music, of any genre. Widely respected as a refreshingly approachable and adventurous funding body, the Foundation supports an amazing range of new music activity - from unsigned band showcases to composer residencies, from commissions for new music to experimental live electronica. The organisation, which receives generous support from the membership of Performing Right Society, has a unique remit to support all genres of new music across the whole of the UK. Since its launch in March 2000, it has successfully funded over 1000 new music initiatives to the tune of over £5million.
The PRS Foundation is a particularly significant force in supporting creatively adventurous and pioneering musical activity. Its funding and partnership activities have kick-started numerous unusual collaborations and projects and helped to underpin some of the most original and interesting musical initiatives in the UK over the past 4 years. The PRS Foundation's main aims are to stimulate and support the creation and performance of new music in the UK and to help audiences understand and enjoy the new music they experience. In addition it aims to motivate public debate about the state of creative music-making in the UK.