Creative Music Production BA(Hons)

About the course

Ready to enhance your artistic potential with advanced production and recording techniques? If you want to hone your creative skills, by composing, performing, and innovating in our studios, the Creative Music Production BA(Hons) degree is for you.

On the course, you’ll learn to write original new music using the computer, recording studio, and other analogue and digital music technology. You’ll study DAW or hardware-based sequencing, sampling, synthesis, and sound design.

Whether you’re interested in electronica, techno, ambient, glitch, pop, grime, or something completely new, you'll develop advanced techniques ready for work in the music industry. You can also secure both short and year-long industry placements to enhance your prospects.

Why study Creative Music Production BA(Hons)

Accredited by Joint Audio Media Education Support (JAMES), our Creative Music Production BA(Hons) is taught from approved professional-standard facilities. There are 21 different studios, so you’ll have plenty of recording and composition studio space to use; our facilities are home to a range of Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), plug-ins, synths, mics, and outboard equipment, all of which is regularly upgraded, to ensure it’s up to date with industry standards.

The course will provide you with industry-standard skills and highly developed creative abilities, preparing you for a range of jobs. These include:

• producer
• sound designer
• studio manager
• mix engineer
• events technician
• roles in radio, film, TV, or the media.

You’ll have the opportunity to work with commercially successful tutors, internationally- recognised researchers and visiting artists, who can help you build on your production talents. Past visiting artists include John Warhurst (Oscar and Bafta winning Sound Editor, and Huddersfield alumnus) and Nitin Sawhney (producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and orchestral composer).

You’ll also explore the latest new music in the annual Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and experience cutting-edge experimental artists at our Electric Spring Festival.

Following this degree, you can explore a broad range of options, from performing and songwriting to recording, music composition, studio production, and live sound. You might also consider further study – in our MA in Creative Music Production, for example – or you may want to explore the vast opportunities offered by the wider creative industries in the UK and internationally.

Entry requirements

Entry is also possible for applicants who don't hold standard UK qualifications.

International and mature applicants who don't hold standard UK qualifications can provide a portfolio to demonstrate skills relevant to the course. You can do this by sending us links to any production and/or recording work you have created or collaborated in.

If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements page.

Other suitable experience or qualifications will be considered. For further information please see the University's minimum entry requirements.

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