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.

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.

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, technology or technique, while developing skills in critical thinking, project planning and reflective analysis that will support your final year portfolio and innovation work.

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.

Applied Acoustics

Understand how sound behaves through an introduction to the core principles of acoustics and their practical application across music production, electronic composition, sound design and audio engineering.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Live Recording & Broadcast

Develop the technical and creative skills needed for live recording and broadcasting through an exploration of capturing high-quality audio in live environments, managing multi-track recordings and delivering real-time broadcasts.

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.

You’ll spend a significant amount of time in state-of-the-art recording studios, honing your skills as a music producer and sound engineer using professional equipment such as mixing consoles, digital audio workstations, high-quality microphones, and studio hardware. 

Learning is hands-on and practice-based, supported by workshops, seminars, lectures, and one-to-one tutorials that help you build both technical confidence and creative direction.

As part of a wider creative community, you’ll also collaborate on projects with students from other music pathways, including musicians, songwriters, and performers. These experiences mirror real-world industry practice, helping you develop the communication, planning, and problem-solving skills needed to work in professional studio environments. 

Regular feedback from tutors and peers supports your growth throughout the course, encouraging reflection and refinement of your work.

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