A Level Music Technology

Students will study at the Barnet A Level Music Centre (BEAT) at Woodhouse College, and will learn about recording, technology-based composition, listening, analysing and producing. You'll be encouraged to engage with a wide range of music technologies and develop an understanding of the historical & cultural contexts of their use in the creation and production of music. You'll explore techniques for capturing and manipulating sound to understand the impact of music technology on studio processes. You will produce completed mixes and compositions, develop in-depth knowledge and understanding of musical elements and musical language, and apply them. You'll identify, analyse and evaluate music production techniques in unfamiliar commercial recordings supplied in the exam. As well as identifying effects and their associated parameter settings, you will explain the principles behind the choice of the effects heard on each recording in a series of written responses.