BA (Hons) Audio Production and Music Technologies

Overview

Music technology and audio production are used across the creative industries in games, film, TV, advertising and more. This degree will introduce you to a range of audio careers as you develop the technical, creative and industrial skills you will need to success in audio post production.

This BA (Hons) Audio Production and Music Technologies degree explores sound and audio and gives you a thorough technical, theoretical and experiential understanding in core audio and music technologies and industrial practice. You will learn to record, engineer and produce music; design sound for film, TV and games; compose music for the moving image; create sample libraries; understand studio technologies and infrastructure; and have the opportunity to work on live professional film projects.

In your first year most of your learning will take place in the University’s Professional Recording Studio. Built around an SSL Duality Console, the studio features the very latest Pro Tools MTRX system, an extensive range of high-end outboard processing from Manley, Bricasti, Neve, API and Universal Audio, and ATC 5.1 monitoring.

You will learn in our professional Soho standard dubbing and grading suite during your second year, which features a large Avid S6 console, Pro Tools MTRX system, 4K projection and ATC monitoring which is Dolby Atmos capable. You can also access a Mac Suite consisting of 26 iMacs which have Pro Tools, Cubase and Logic software, professional sample libraries from Spitfire Audio and Adobe Suite.

Music technology and audio production are used across the creative industries in games, film, TV, advertising and more. This degree will introduce you to a range of audio careers as you develop the technical, creative and industrial skills you will need to success in audio post production.

This BA (Hons) Audio Production and Music Technologies degree explores sound and audio and gives you a thorough technical, theoretical and experiential understanding in core audio and music technologies and industrial practice. You will learn to record, engineer and produce music; design sound for film, TV and games; compose music for the moving image; create sample libraries; understand studio technologies and infrastructure; and have the opportunity to work on live professional film projects.

In your first year most of your learning will take place in the Universitys Professional Recording Studio. Built around an SSL Duality Console, the studio features the very latest Pro Tools MTRX system, an extensive range of high-end outboard processing from Manley, Bricasti, Neve, API and Universal Audio, and ATC 5.1 monitoring.

You will learn in our professional Soho standard dubbing and grading suite during your second year, which features a large Avid S6 console, Pro Tools MTRX system, 4K projection and ATC monitoring which is Dolby Atmos capable. You can also access a Mac Suite consisting of 26 iMacs which have Pro Tools, Cubase and Logic software, professional sample libraries from Spitfire Audio and Adobe Suite.

Careers

Where you could go after your studies

This degree will prepare you for a range of careers across audio and music technologies.

Further study

You could decide to continue your studies to postgraduate level.

You can apply for up to five different degree courses at up to five different institutions through UCAS (the national Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). Your application is sent to all five universities at the same time.

Each course has a UCAS code that you will find on our course pages or in our prospectus. You will need to know the UCAS code for the course you want to apply for when you make your application. The UCAS code for the University of Chichester is (CHICH) C58.

For UCAS application deadlines please refer to the UCAS website.