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.

Creative Coding

Building on your foundational knowledge, this module will develop your awareness and ability to apply different tools, methods and programming techniques for creative, artistic and practical purposes.

Creative Research Practice

Explore how research can inform and expand your work as a producer. You’ll investigate areas that inspire your practice, from music culture to genre, audience behaviour or techniques, while developing skills in critical thinking, project planning and reflective analysis that will support your final year portfolio and innovation work.

Sound Design & Middleware

Develop advanced sound design and implementation skills using middleware, such as Wwise, FMOD, and Unity Audio, for video games, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and interactive installations.

Advanced Music Production

This module builds on the Music Production module, further refining your creative and technical approach to music production and experimenting with unconventional creative approaches. You will explore advanced techniques in composition, arrangement, sound design, synthesis, and audio processing.

Post-production

Develop advanced skills in audio post-production for film, television, and games, exploring the complete post-production workflow, including dialogue editing, ADR, Foley, sound design, mixing, and mastering for screen-based media.

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.

Advanced Mixing & Mastering

This module focuses on advanced mixing and mastering techniques, including detailed approaches to EQ, dynamics processing, stereo imaging, harmonic enhancement, spatial depth, and mastering for a range of distribution formats.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learning is hands-on, exploratory and driven by real-world creative practice. You’ll work in professional recording studios, production suites and computer labs using industry-standard tools such as digital audio workstations, hardware synthesizers, modular gear, Dolby Atmos systems and coding environments.

Your learning is supported by workshops, seminars, collaborative briefs and critique sessions. These are designed to develop your technical fluency, creative thinking and professional workflow as a sound designer and creative technologist.

You’ll collaborate with students across interconnected music degrees, building communication, planning and project management skills needed for success in contemporary music and media industries.

Throughout the course, you’ll be encouraged to experiment, refine your creative process and take ownership of your artistic development. Constructive feedback from tutors and peers will guide your progress.

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.