Electronic Music and Sound BA(Hons)

What can I do with a music and sound degree?

• Sound artist
• Musician
• Music producer
• Music therapist
• Music teacher
• Sound designer
• Sound engineer
• Sound technician (broadcasting/film/video)
• Acoustic consultant
• Arts administrator
• Broadcast engineer
• Community arts worker
• Event manager
• Radio producer
• Talent agent

The course has an excellent track record of producing graduates who go on to successful careers. Many run their own studios or production companies, or become freelancers in music publishing, with record companies or film production.

Graduates have gone on to work for organisations including:

• The BBC
• Pinewood Film Studios
• The Royal Shakespeare Company
• Tate Modern
• Radio 5 Live
• Warp Records
• West-German Radio
• The Olympics.

Notable alumni

Alumni from the course include:

• Chris Evans-Roberts, Managing Director at Ithaca whose client list includes VW, Saatchi & Saatchi and UEFA.
• Alan Myson aka Ital Tek, critically acclaimed music producer
• Joseph Higgins aka Metrist/ L.SAE, critically acclaimed music producer
• Navid Asghari, critically acclaimed composer and sound artist.
• Laurence Owen, soundtrack composer and entertainer, sound designer at multi-award winning 1927 productions. He won the Früh Kölsch Award for Best Music in a Short Film in 2013 and was a finalist in the 2014 Musical Comedy Awards
• Andrew Hair, sound and game designer who currently works for The Creative Assembly, one of the UK’s largest games studios.He has worked on audio implementation and audio testing for the BAFTA-winning audio team behind Alien: Isolation (2014), Total War: Warhammer (2016, 2017) and Halo Wars 2 (2017).
• Yu Miyashita aka YAPORIGAMI, freelance music composer whose client list includes MTV, Yahoo and Sony.
• Chiara Fulgoni, freelance music composer and cinematographer.

• Tom Allen, Creative Director at Buff Motion.
• Shigeru Ishihara aka DJ Scotch Egg, critically acclaimed music producer.

• Joseph Mount, lead singer and founder of critically acclaimed band Metronomy.
• Hannah Kemp-Welch, Digital Producer at Tate and Programme Manager at Raw Material / Raw Sounds.
• Buster Grey-Jung, freelance filmmaker/sound designer/artist. Grey-Jung has worked with clients including Red Bull, Boogaloo Productions /Rooted Productions, Channel 4 and artists like Andrew Kotting.

• Ecka Mordecai, cellist, composer and free improviser, member of the trio Psychic Sister Pseudo Séance Band
• Jack Ritchie aka Bearcubs: critically acclaimed music producer.
• Owain Rich, BBC World Service, NBC Left Field
• Nikita Alvaro, sound designer at Pinewood Studios.
• Nami Strack, freelance sound designer, composer for film and Senior Lecturer at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg.
• Lex Hollingworth, Production Manager at Komedia Brighton.

Supporting your employability

Outside of your course, our Careers Service is here to support you as you discover (and re-discover) your strengths and what matters to you. We are here for you throughout your university journey as you work towards a fulfilling and rewarding career.

Connect with our careers team

• Find part-time work that you can combine with your studies.
• Find, or be, a mentor or get involved with our peer-to-peer support scheme.
• Develop your business ideas through our entrepreneurial support network.
• Get professional advice and support with career planning, CV writing and interview top tips.
• Meet potential employers at our careers fairs.
• Find rewarding volunteering opportunities to help you discover more about what makes you tick, and build your CV.

Whatever your career needs, we are here to help. And that's not just while you are a student, our support carries on after you've graduated.

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