BA (Hons) Electronic Music Production and Performance.

Introducing you to a range of music sequencing software and developing your creative skills across platforms, this module encourages you to experiment using a range of electronic music technologies. You’ll produce a personal portfolio of compositions that promotes your individual style and abilities.

Assessment: Portfolio of compositions and report. 40 credits.

Focusing on creative electronic music techniques using a range of performance tools, you’ll experiment to create original compositions before showcasing your work in our dedicated venue. Sessions will give you experience using Ableton Live along with a range of hardware, teaching you the skills needed to take your music live.

Assessment: Composition and performance. 40 credits

Introducing you to a professional studio environment, this module will help you to develop key skills in studio techniques and procedures using a wide range of equipment, while also helping you to gain an understanding of signal flow and gain structure in recording. This module will also help develop interpersonal and collaborative skills.

Assessment: Signal path test and portfolio. 20 credits.

Through the development of your critical listening and production skills, and focusing on relevant debates and issues surrounding electronic music & DJ culture, this module will give you both a practical and contextual insight into key changes, events and practitioners in the industry throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This will help to develop your own understanding of the music you create while also advancing your research, analytical and practical skills, as well as your own career development.

Assessment: Presentation and essay. 20 credits.

Introducing you to more advanced creative and technical skills in electronic music production, this module will help to develop your editing, mixing and remixing skills across various projects. Collaborating directly with a client or colleague, you’ll develop a portfolio of work that integrates audio processing hardware and software. You’ll showcase both pre and post-production skills as well as your ability to collaborate effectively.

Assessment: Portfolio and presentation. 40 credits.

Providing you with skills to create a sound library and software sampler collection, this module highlights the range of technical processes involved, considering the end user at all times. Through these sessions you’ll produce patches for pro-audio applications, gaining a clear understanding of the workflows involved and the process of developing encoded and compressed audio files for a sound library.

Assessment: Portfolio and presentation. 20 credits.

Encouraging you to collaborate with other musicians, this module explores your potential as an electronic musician within a larger composition and performance piece. You’ll develop technical and creative skills using controller technology and are encouraged to work independently in the studios, sourcing your own collaborative partners.

Assessment: A collaborative music performance and presentation. 20 credits.

In this module, you’ll have the freedom to explore an area of personal research which is relevant to your own interests and practice.

Assessment: Essay. 20 credits.

Working to an external client brief, you’ll develop a clear strategy to achieve the goals and requirements of the commissioning client. Assignments in this module will encourage you to think critically about your work and use the skills and knowledge you have gained across other modules to create a product that meets specific criteria.

Assessment: Portfolio and report. 20 credits.

Guided by your individual tastes and interests, this module will inspire you to think about your approach to composition differently. Focusing on synthesis and innovative techniques, you’ll apply creative strategies to generate original tracks, evaluate their success and present them as a finished piece. You’ll be encouraged to think critically about your techniques throughout to further your technical abilities in electronic music production and mastering.

Assessment: Composition and presentation. 20 credits.

This is the time where you’ll test out everything you’ve learned during your degree as you take your work to the public. With tutor support, you’ll devise your own creative project to a highly professional standard whilst planning and managing its launch into the public domain. Focusing purely on your own creative goals, you can take your work in this module to a whole new level, taking your first steps into the industry as a professional producer or engineer.

Assessment: Major project and archive. 40 credits.

Exposing you to the range of career opportunities across the creative industries, you’ll gain a range of key skills relevant to entrepreneurship and self-employment. Concentrating on preparing you for work as soon as you graduate, this module will help you understand how different businesses function in the music and audio industries, and how you can find your place within it.

Assessment: Proposal, portfolio and report. 40 credits.

Considering all performance aspects – from the audio and sound reinforcement, to the lighting and live projections – you’ll create, prepare and perform a live electronic music/DJ set, considering a range of approaches within emerging electronic music practice. Through this module, you’ll gain key practical skills in the preparation for creative sets that effectively represent your capabilities.

Assessment: Technical specification and live performance. 20 credits.