Course Overview
Music technology and audio production are used across the creative industries in games, film, TV, advertising, and more. This degree will introduce you to a range of audio careers as you develop the technical, creative, and industrial skills you will need to succeed in audio post-production.
This BA (Hons) Audio Production and Music Technologies degree explores sound and audio and gives you a thorough technical, theoretical, and experiential understanding of core audio and music technologies and industrial practice. You will learn to record, engineer, and produce music; design sound for film, TV, and games; compose music for the moving image; create sample libraries; understand studio technologies and infrastructure, and have the opportunity to work on live professional film projects.
Key Facts
- Full-time- 3 years
- Start Date- September
Entry requirements
- UCAS – 104-112 tariff points from A levels or combination with AS / EPQ / BTEC/ Cambridge Technical.
- A-Levels- BBC-BCC
- BTEC/Cambridge Technical- DMM- MMM
- IB- 28 points
- Access to HE Diploma- Pass
- IELTS- 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5.
Career
This degree will prepare you for a range of careers across audio and music technologies.
You could work in:
- Professional recording studios
- Video games studios
- Gaming
- TV and film
- Advertising
Further study
You could decide to continue your studies at the postgraduate level.
Our postgraduate degrees include:
- MA Screen Acting
- MA Composition for Film, TV, and Games
- PGCE
- Ph.D. Research
Course Content
- Fundamentals of Acoustics and Studio Technologies
- Pro Tools 101
- Studio and Recording Techniques 1
- Sequencing and Programming
- Pro Tools 110
- Studio and Recording Techniques 2
- Synthesis and Sampling
- Sound Engineering and Music Production
- Field and Location Recording
- Music Mastering
- Sound Design, ADR and Foley
- Major Individual Project or Dissertation
- Audio Post Production
- Music for the Moving Image
- Advanced Sampling Project
- Audio for Video Games
