Creative Music Technology BA(Hons)

1st Year

With technical and artistic guidance from staff and specialists, you’ll develop your musical skills, knowledge, and creative voice. You’ll learn analytical and problem-solving expertise, and project management and interpersonal skills.

On top of this, you’ll develop your own artistic work using high-level training in recording, editing, production, sound design and live performance software and hardware.

Modules

• Audio Cultures and Critical Theory
• Studiocraft
• Designing Sound
• Core Music Practice
• The Electronic Toolkit
• Mixcraft

2nd Year

You’ll take core modules to develop essential knowledge and skills, and specialist modules to focus on your interests. Choose from subjects like writing music for the moving image, studio composition, advanced recording, mixing and mastering, and exploring the cutting edge of audio for emerging digital media.

You’ll also have several chances to collaborate and study abroad with our partner institutions around the world.

Modules

• Creative Writing and Research in Virtual Music
• Art of Production
• Professional Music Practice
• Immersive Audio

Optional modules

• Voice
• Timbre
• Supersonic
• The Working Musician: Reproduce; Arrange; Mutate
• The Hit Machine
• The Music Educator
• Music and Moving Image
• Creative Performance Technology

3rd Year

This is your chance to work on your own projects. In the past these have included working at major recording studios in New York and Thailand, researching and developing new technologies at an Amsterdam institute for music technology, collaborating with musicians from the Icelandic Academy of Arts, and teaching music to children in Ghana. Other projects have included placements in post-production studios and record labels, starting up a music business, and international touring.

You’ll then apply this experience to your self-devised projects - like a professional portfolio, dissertation and a careers module.

Modules

• Specialists Practice in Context
• Dissertation
• Professional Portfolio