Bournemouth University - BA (Hons) Music & Sound Production

Bournemouth University

BA (Hons) Music & Sound Production

Improve your audio creation skills by experimenting with cutting-edge technology and various sound production techniques to create music and sound in a variety of contexts. Improve your creative, technical, and compositional abilities in music production.
Professionally compose, arrange, record, edit, manipulate, and produce music and sound.
Apply what you've learned in real-world scenarios such as music production, composition, sound recording, and creating music/sound for film and television.
Access to cutting-edge facilities such as fully equipped recording studios equipped with a State Solid Logic mixing desk, live room, and control room, as well as surround-sound and stereo post-production studios.

Course accreditation

Accredited by the Joint Audio Media Education Support (JAMES), a measure of the quality and suitability of this course to meet industry needs. JAMES is a consortium of music, entertainment, and media industry organizations collaborating in the support of education and promotion of excellence.

Entry Requirements

  • 104-120 UCAS tariff points including a minimum of 2 A-levels or equivalent. BTEC Extended Diploma: DMM.

  • If English is not your first language you'll need IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each

    component, or equivalent.

Career Prospects

This innovative course is intended to provide you with all of the technical skills and theoretical knowledge required to succeed in the music and sound production industries. With the expansion of the multimedia environment, there is a growing demand for skilled graduates in this area within the music and entertainment sector.
Our music graduates have a diverse skill set and have gone on to work in a variety of roles in the music industry, both within companies and as freelancers. 95% of our students are employed or pursuing further education within fifteen months of completing the course.
Our music students have gone on to work for companies like Absolute Music, BBC, Allen and Heath, It's Done Technology, Sound Tree Music, and Focusrite.

This degree qualifies you for the following positions:

  • Music Hardware Developer
  • Music Technology Software Developer
  • Music and Audio Consultant
  • Sound Assistant
  • Sound Engineer.

Course Details

On this course you will be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners, demonstrators, technicians and research students. You will also benefit from regular guest lectures from industry.

Year 1

Core units:
Composition 1
Digital Media Tools
Music, Sound & Culture
Production & Mixing 1
Sound Design: Synthesis
Studio Techniques

Year 2

Core units
Composition 2
Creative Studio Production
Music Industry Awareness
Production & Mixing 2
Production Portfolio
Sound Design: Audio

Final Year

Core units
Interactive Music
Production & Mixing 3
Music, Sound & the Moving Image
Individual Music Project

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