Course summary

Choose your start date. You have six opportunities to join this course throughout the year. Course Overview: Gain the skills needed for a career in music production, games audio, screen composition, sound design, immersive audio and recording across the creative music industries. This course focuses on building adaptable, confident, and self-aware professionals.

• Tackle solo and team projects to develop transferable skills. These may include live scenarios where previous students collaborated with the likes of Jaguar Land Rover, local schools and other university courses.

• Enhance your technical expertise in sound design and audio engineering for live settings. Simultaneously, develop your electronic music composition skills and critical insight to help you excel as an innovative music producer.

• This course emphasises the diverse nature of music production and the industry's need for adaptable, ambitious and team-oriented professionals. You'll have opportunities to collaborate with other postgraduate students in subject areas such as popular music, film, VR, AR and game design.

• Develop the skills and knowledge that will help you establish and sustain a career as an independent artist in the contemporary music industries.

• Build advanced skills in audio production, learn to solve complex challenges creatively, and apply inclusive principles so you can lead diverse teams.

• Master theoretical frameworks to create high-quality work across various media and communities.

• Access several modern recording studios (including SSL and Neve desks), an iMac music suite including a host of industry software, a Dolby Atmos/ambisonics studio and a VR/AR immersive studio.

• Learn from dedicated, experienced, and qualified teaching staff with a mixture of commercial, academic, and research-related expertise at an international level. (Staff may be subject to change.)