BSc (Hons) Music and Audio Production

Course overview

Study level: Undergraduate

Have a passion for making and listening to music? This course covers skills needed to create, record and produce music and audio.

This course is ideal for those who have a passion for creative practices in both music and sound, and wish to explore the technical skill of those practices.

• On our course you’ll explore the principles of music and audio production including recording music in the studio, writing, arranging and producing music with technology, live sound, sound design, sound effect, synthesis and interactive sound design (e.g. computer game audio). We also cover the music business, careers and employability. You will also have access to 5 recording studios (including Audient, Yamaha Nuage, Neve and SSL mixing desks) many live rooms and performance spaces and an iMac music tech suite running Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Nuendo, Ableton Live, Max/ Msp, Sibelius and Dorico⁴.
• Our course is accredited by JAMES, a music industry body that acts on behalf of the Association of Professional Recording Services, the Music Producers Guild and the UK Screen Association. We are also a certified Steinberg training centre¹. As part of the course you may have the opportunity to go to Rock Field Studio (where Queen recorded Bohemian Rhapsody) for a week of master classes in recording and mastering².
• Upon completion of this course, you may have the opportunity to become music producers, sound engineers, composers; audio post- production and game audio technicians together with work in extensive related fields such as radio and television sound.