Industry Practice
Building on Industry Foundations, this module focuses on professional development, including valuing your work and developing an understanding of contracts, rights management, and how to generate sustainable income long-term.

Event Law & Logistics

Understand the legal and safety responsibilities and frameworks behind live event delivery. You’ll cover licensing, contracts, risk assessments, insurance and accessibility, learning how to plan responsibly, meet regulations and create safe, successful experiences for artists and audiences.

Creative Research Practice

Explore how research can inform and expand your work in live sound and events. You’ll investigate topics that matter to your practice, from audience behaviour and sustainability to event formats and cultural trends, while developing skills in critical thinking, project planning and reflective analysis that will support your final year portfolio and innovation work.

Sustainable Event Practice

Plan and deliver a live event that prioritises sustainability, ethics and social impact. You’ll explore accessible design, resource use, environmental impact and wellbeing. Gaining hands-on experience delivering purposeful, inclusive events that respond to real-world challenges.

Advanced Music Production
This module further refines your creative and technical approach to music production, exploring advanced techniques in composition, arrangement, sound design, synthesis, and audio processing, and experimenting with innovative production methods.

Hardware Production
Explore hardware-based music production tools and setups, including synthesisers, drum machines, samplers, modular systems, guitar pedals, vocal processors, and drum triggers, developing a hands-on approach to sound creation and production.

Composition & Arrangement
Designed to develop composition, arrangement, and songwriting fundamentals, this module explores how arrangement choices can enhance storytelling and covers the core techniques in melody, harmony, rhythm, form, and texture.

Marketing & Promotion

Explore the principles, tools and strategies of marketing and promotion within the music industry, including social media, digital distribution, content creation, how to communicate your message and build a presence.

Integrative Performance Technologies

Experiment with creative and technical tools such as show synchronisation systems, reactive visuals, and live processing to support performances. Working individually and with performers/artists, you’ll prototype and deliver live experiences that reflect your role and specialism within contemporary event production.

Commercial Music Creation

Create music for commercial use, learning the professional requirements for sync licensing, branded content and production libraries and exploring the roles of producers, songwriters, composers, and writers in different contexts.

Immersive Audio

Discover the creative world of immersive audio, focusing on mixing and mastering in Dolby Atmos. Explore core principles of immersive sound, including object-based mixing, multichannel signal flow and spatial processing.

Innovation: Exploration

This is the beginning of your final-year innovation journey where you will challenge the conventions of your creative discipline and build on the technical, creative and research skills developed throughout your degree.

Industry Portfolio Development

Plan, shape and build a professional portfolio that reflects your creative identity, strengths, and long-term goals, researching professional expectations, exploring formats and creating a strategy tailored to your sector.

Innovation: Realisation

Realise the work completed during the Innovation: Exploration module, bringing together your technical, creative, and research skills and taking your initial idea through to a completed outcome.

Industry Portfolio Delivery

Building on the Industry Portfolio Development module, you will finalise a body of work that aligns with your professional goals and presents your skills clearly to your intended audience.

Sound Cultures

This module invites you to critically explore the cultural, social, and political dimensions of sound and music, applying research methodologies explored in Creative Research Practice.

Festival Production: Sound, Staging and Technical Design

Discover the fast-paced and collaborative world of festival production, with a focus on the advanced technical, logistical, and creative considerations required to deliver safe, high-quality environments for artists and audiences. 

Music Education & Wellbeing Practice

Investigate how music can be used in educational, therapeutic and community settings as you explore its role in supporting learning, wellbeing and social connection.

Management & Leadership in the Music Industry

This module will build your confidence, knowledge and adaptability to succeed in complex industry environments; equipping you with the professional skills needed to lead, manage and innovate in the industry.

Collaborative Creative Practice

Design, develop and deliver an original creative project in collaboration with others. You will refine your creative identity while you contribute to a shared artistic vision.

Signature System Design

Create a personalised technical system that supports your creative and professional trajectory, such as a custom production workflow, a sample instrument, an audio plug-in or a seamless live rig for performance.

Learning is hands-on, collaborative, and grounded in real-world creative practice. You’ll work in professional studios, event spaces, and production labs using industry-standard tools for music production, DJing, and live event delivery.

Your learning is shaped through workshops, seminars, collaborative briefs, and live projects. These experiences build your confidence across event planning, sound production, creative direction, and team-based delivery.

You’ll learn alongside music producers from across other specialist degrees, as well as students on the Live Sound and Event Management course. Together, you’ll develop and deliver events that reflect how music, sound, and performance come together in professional contexts, whether that’s a club night, festival stage, or interdisciplinary showcase.

Throughout the course, you’ll be encouraged to experiment, take creative risks, and refine your practice through feedback and collaboration. This emphasis on teamwork and cross-disciplinary connection mirrors the realities of today’s music and events industries.

On average you should allow for between 40-50 hours per week for your studies, of which approximately 25% will be taught (c.10 hours) and 75% will be self-study.