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Full time
1 year
SEP-26
MA - Master of Arts
Music Production
Develop advanced music production skills and prepare for a professional career in the audio industry. This music production master's degree combines technical expertise, creative development, and industry-focused learning to help you succeed as a music producer.
Advance your career as a professional music producer through intensive studio work, professional development, and industry-focused learning. Our MA Music Production combines advanced music production techniques with essential business knowledge, preparing you for success in today's music industry.
You will learn how to enhance your music production skills, carefully refining your approaches to become more productive, and gain a highly sophisticated understanding of the mixing and mastering process. You will have opportunities to explore new or established areas of your creative practice, pushing boundaries and achieving innovative results. You will also focus on your development as a professional music producer, focusing on exploiting opportunities and planning your career, leading on to a large scale creative project in which you will choose a specialist focus.
Why choose this course?
In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from industry experts through regular guest lectures and have access to our video archive of past guest speakers. This course is taught by dBs Institute and awarded by Falmouth University
This module will challenge you to apply self-reflective strategies to examine your approach to producing and engineering music. You’ll cover advanced concepts and professional strategies that enhance workflow and increase output, ensuring you can respond to the varied and ever-increasing demands of producing music to a commercial standard. Steer the module in a direction that suits you by focusing on your own music as an artist, or producing music for clients or production companies.
Explore the concepts and processes surrounding the art of mixing and mastering. This module can be used to enhance the quality of your own music or to prepare you for a role as a professional mixing and mastering engineer by working on music and audio recorded by others. You will discover advanced technical processes as well as the conceptual and professional considerations essential to understanding the intricacies of finalising and preparing audio material for distribution and commercial consumption.
A self-directed and highly creative module that allows you to explore a specialist area of your choice. Dive into the world of immersive audio or modular synthesis, develop live performance techniques, experiment with advanced recording or sound design, or explore approaches to programming and beyond. This is an opportunity to align your skills with your individual interests and explore new territories in preparation for the final Project Realisation module.
In this module, you focus on a specific area of your specialist practice that will support your career as a professional music producer. Develop a deep understanding of the factors involved in setting up your own professional enterprise or create a skills development plan that can elevate your confidence, ensuring longevity, growth and success in your endeavours. With these skills, you will become a master of running your own career, capable of capitalising on emerging industry opportunities and different income streams. You will also develop valuable postgraduate research skills preparing you for your Project Realisation module.
In this double module, you will create a substantial and original major project focused on a self-selected area of music production. You will develop your research and project-management skills as you negotiate a professional proposal, develop an effective framework before delivering a final project that can lead you into the industry or further postgraduate study.
For this course (per year)
£10,500
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We welcome applicants with varied qualifications, but typically you'll need an undergraduate degree in a related discipline. Our typical applicants hold an undergraduate degree of 2:2 or above, or equivalent experience.
We'll also welcome your application if you have formal or 'certified' learning (such as training courses not run by universities or colleges) and learning from work experience or self-study. This is called Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL), and should have been gained within the last five years, and be equivalent to the learning outcomes of our minimum entry qualifications.