WHAT IS SOUND AND MUSIC PRODUCTION BA (HONS)?
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Our Sound and Music Production BA (Hons) course scored 93% for teaching in the National Student Survey 2023.
You’ll gain the practical skills you’ll need to work on sound and music projects in a wide range of industry settings. You’ll study a wide range of areas, from composition and sound design for film, television, games and advertising through to immersive sound for VR environments – as well as electronic music production, studio and location recording, and live sound engineering.
Our students have worked on placement for Cooking Vinyl Records, Steve Winwood’s Wincraft Music Studios, as live Sound Engineers at major UK festivals, at blockchain music specialists Blokur – as well as providing sound and music production services for a host of corporate clients.
STUDY STYLE
You’ll learn from a mix of practical sessions, lectures, group work and professional experiences – with assessment 100% by coursework. You’ll learn in industry-standard recording studios, production labs, interactive platforms and. specialist software and hardware.
You’ll have access to our suite of audio production facilities – including four music studios, an immersive sound lab that’s equipped with a 22.2 spatial audio array, a Soho-style dubbing theatre, three Mac labs that all run Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton and MAX / MSP – as well as rehearsal rooms and fabrication labs where you work on creating interactive music hardware.
Throughout the course you’ll learn to use these facilities, develop expertise in live sound engineering for settings that range from small venues through to festival stages and live streaming and collaborate with songwriters, performers, film makers, animators, games designers and a range of other creative students to create music and sound for a variety of audio and screen media projects.
COURSE MODULES
Here's an example of the types of modules you'll study (the contents and structure of the course are reviewed occasionally, but it is unlikely that there will be significant change).
Module information is not available for this programme.
- Level 4 (Undergraduate year 1)All students must complete these modules:
- The Music Business (MD4220)
- Audio and Studio Technology (MD4351)
- Making Tracks (MD4352)
- Sound for Screen Media (MD4356)
- Live Event Technologies (MD4357)
- The Future Professional (MD5220)
- Music and Sound Studies (MD5324)
- Music Production Techniques (MD5351)
- Sound Design and Post-Production (MD5358)
- Game Audio (MD5359)
- Immersive Audio (MD5360)
- Composing for Screen Media (MD5361)
- Audio Broadcast and Production (MD5362)
- The Research Project (MD6216)
- The Music and Sound Professional (MD6323)
- The Production Project (MD6353)
- Advanced Audio Techniques (MD6354)
- Advanced Audio Techniques 2 (MD6355)
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