Music Production

This module will challenge you to apply self-reflective strategies to examine your approach to producing and engineering music. You’ll cover advanced concepts and professional strategies that enhance workflow and increase output, ensuring you can respond to the varied and ever-increasing demands of producing music to a commercial standard. Steer the module in a direction that suits you by focusing on your own music as an artist, or producing music for clients or production companies.

Mixing & Mastering

Explore the concepts and processes surrounding the art of mixing and mastering. This module can be used to enhance the quality of your own music or to prepare you for a role as a professional mixing and mastering engineer by working on music and audio recorded by others. You will discover advanced technical processes as well as the conceptual and professional considerations essential to understanding the intricacies of finalising and preparing audio material for distribution and commercial consumption. 

Creative Exploration

A self-directed and highly creative module that allows you to explore a specialist area of your choice. Dive into the world of immersive audio or modular synthesis, develop live performance techniques, experiment with advanced recording or sound design, or explore approaches to programming and beyond. This is an opportunity to align your skills with your individual interests and explore new territories in preparation for the final Project Realisation module.

Professional Development

In this module, you focus on a specific area of your specialist practice that will support your career as a professional music producer. Develop a deep understanding of the factors involved in setting up your own professional enterprise or create a skills development plan that can elevate your confidence, ensuring longevity, growth and success in your endeavours. With these skills, you will become a master of running your own career, capable of capitalising on emerging industry opportunities and different income streams. You will also develop valuable postgraduate research skills preparing you for your Project Realisation module. 

Project Realisation

In this double module, you will create a substantial and original major project focused on a self-selected area of music production. You will develop your research and project-management skills as you negotiate a professional proposal, develop an effective framework before delivering a final project that can lead you into the industry or further postgraduate study.