Music Producing

Release your creativity in music composition and production. From sketching songs to finished compositions, develop your DAW skills in Logic Pro and Pro Tools. 

Analyse and critically evaluate the audio environment. Develop the listening skills of professional music producers and engineers and apply these to your own creative practice. 

Learn recording and mixing techniques essential for producing music. Discover the producer's role in optimising artists' potential in studio environments. 

Advance your understanding of melody, rhythm, and harmony in popular music creation and analysis. Get insights into fundamental principles and underlying concepts of sound. 

You’ll work in creative partnership with each other and with performance students on a short six-week practical project that has a ‘real world’ industrial brief. 

Expand your songwriting and compositional skills. Study synthesis, advanced sequencing, sampling, editing, processing and mixing. 

Grasp the technical and musical knowledge needed to begin composing music and designing sounds for film, video and related media. 

Focus on effective communication and promotion principles. Develop professionalism as both a music producer and artist. 

Explore the producer's role in the music industry. Learn about royalties, contracts, copyright law, marketing, distribution, and merchandising to challenge your understanding. 

Create music/audio content of your design to a professional standard. Develop project management skills with client briefs and real-world deadlines. 

Discussions and seminars on the current media landscape, looking at trends, technological advances and important issues that dominate the way we consume content.

Create a portfolio that demonstrates your skills and creativity in your chosen field. Highlight your growing industry confidence and professionalism. 

Use conceptual and technical creative techniques to fully engage in the area of remix production. Produce remixes for international artists, with potential for global release.

Manage your own digital record label and engage with professional music master to develop your critical listening, deploy advanced production techniques. 

Understand professional responsibilities and develop business contacts. Create a viable financial plan to support career goals and transition into the professional marketplace. 

This optional module provides students with the space to engage with independently sourced external opportunities and explore ‘practice as research’ using reflective journalling techniques.  

This module prepares students for their careers by exploring the industry and employment  paths in surrounding fields. Students consider their individual professional ambitions by developing interview, social media and self-marketing skills. 

Through a series of practical workshops, students will develop entrepreneurial skills for identifying an opportunity for a new product or service, taking ideas through product design, market research, strategic and competitor analysis and financial planning to develop a viable business plan.