BSc (Hons) Music Technology

You will be introduced to modern audio/music recording and production techniques through creating podcasts, studio recording projects with Apple Logic and Avid Pro Tools systems, and creating computer-based music. Within live sound and acoustics, you will work with digital consoles, networked audio, and small PA systems. You will also develop your appreciation of the scope of the music and media industry.

• Audio For Broadcast 

• Recording and Production 1 

• Creative Computing Profession 

• Acoustics and Sound Reinforcement

• Music Production Analysis 

• Computer Music

Studio recording and production techniques are further developed with a deeper focus on industry technical standards. You will study electronic music and understand MIDI control through composition and sound design in Ableton. Audio post production work enhances your skills in synchronisation, editing and processing techniques for deliverable media.  Practical impulse response capture and room acoustics theory provides you with contextualised learning in reverberation, room design and acoustic analysis.  Continuing studies in sound reinforcement theory and systems will culminate with group work and the technical production of a live music event. 

• Audio Post-Production 

• Electro-acoustics 

• Live Sound Production 

• Recording and Production 2 

• Sound System Design

• Electronic Music

You will work in small production teams with musicians and artists producing professional multi-song recordings (EPs), videos, and web content for promotional purposes for the artist. This will be used to showcase your employable skills within a portfolio context. Music and media industry business and legal aspects are studied in terms of employment and entrepreneurship. Audio processing is introduced through the creation of a suite of effects developed in Max For Live for Ableton Live. You will have an opportunity to participate in a music industry placement in the UK or abroad in a partner institution, such as the Harris Institute in Canada.

• The Music and Media Industry

• Audio Visual Integration

• Professional Studio Practice

• Audio Signal Processing

• Music Technology Project

• Immersive Audio/Work-Based Learning

The honors year features an extensive individual project culminating in the production of a dissertation and portfolio assets. You can customize your topic to enable you to develop specialized knowledge and skills toward your area of interest for future employment.

You will be required to raise the quality of your work to implement professional and European standards for the delivery of audio in stereo and surround formats.

Using current industry-relevant mastering plug-in software and applying your professional listening skills, you will finalize selected tracks and format them for distribution. You will produce and synchronize all the audio assets required to complete a soundtrack for an animated short film.

You will apply the principles of signal processing in the development of software synthesizers and generative MIDI sequencing devices using Max For Live in Ableton Live.

You will further develop your sound design and audio post-production skills within a non-linear audio environment for the specific requirements of computer games.

• Music Technology Major Project

• Audio Mastering

• Audio For Film & Animation

• Advanced Audio Signal Processing

• Computer Games Audio