Developed to respond to the growing demand for flexible music and audio professionals, the course is focused on equipping you with an exceptional range of intellectual, technical and creative skills.
This degree has a unique focus to help you understand the relationships between music, sound and other forms of digital media. For example, film, games, web-based applications, and novel modes of performance.
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Learn in a highly energised department, with internationally recognised staff who share your devotion to music
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Train in facilities that include advanced recording and composition studios, and performance and practice spaces
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Study music, recording, studio production techniques, composition, interactive music, acoustics and psychoacoustics, audio arts, sound synthesis, and digital signal processing
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Participate in music-making activities, including student ensembles, regular concerts and summer music festival
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Learn in a stimulating research-led environment with world-leading studios and recording facilities
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Develop up-to-date technical skills in digital and audio technologies
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Follow in the footsteps of students who have undertaken a placement year with Les Miserables, London Philharmonic, and other organisations.
Course content
Over the three years of this BSc Music, Sound and Technology degree, you’ll study music theory, cutting-edge concepts, and develop your professional practice.
Year 1
Gain a comprehensive grounding in sound recording, acoustics, digital audio, media and critical theory, contextual studies and critical listening.
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Introduction to Musicianship (15 credits)
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Practical Musicianship 1 (15 credits)
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Critical Listening (15 credits)
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Sound Design (30 credits)
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Sound Recording and Studio Techniques 1 (30 credits)
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Music, Sound and Technology (30 credits)
Year 2
Develop your advanced skills in recording and interactive music systems, creating innovative new work. Choose elective modules across sound studies, critical and media theory, music in popular culture, western music, applied music studies and composition.
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Practical Musicianship 2 (15 credits)
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Sound Recording and Studio Techniques 2 (30 credits)
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Interactivity for Music and Sound (30 credits)
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Composition (Studio) (15 credits)
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Composition (Instrumental) (15 credits)
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Composition (Moving Images) (15 credits)
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Performance 2A (15 credits)
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Global Perspectives: London’s Musical Communities (15 credits)
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Fifty Shades of Red. Russia in the Twentieth Century (15 credits)
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The American Century (15 credits)
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Creative Writing Workshop (15 credits)
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Global Popular Musics (15 credits)
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Sound, Music and the Moving Image (15 credits)
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Electronic Dance Music (15 credits)
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Rhythm (15 credits)
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Sound, Art and Technoculture (15 credits)
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Orchestral and Instrumental Studies (15 credits)
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Jazz (15 credits)
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Music in East Asia
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Nineteenth-Century Opera (15 credits)
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Video Game Music (15 credits)
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Popular Music Now! (15 credits)
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Music, Sound and the Environment (15 credits)
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Music, Fascism, Communism (15 credits)
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Writing About Music (15 credits)
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Interdisciplinarity and Collaborative Process (15 credits)
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Performance Practice (15 credits)
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Lieder (15 credits)
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Principles of Music Education (15 credits)
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Micro-Placement (15 credits)
Year 3
Discover the role of sound and music in video and web applications. Complete the major project that forms a focal point for the final year of your degree, devising and realising a large-scale individual project.
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Major Project: Music, Sound and Technology (30 credits)
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Major Project: Dissertation (30 credits)
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Major Project: Composition (30 credits)
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Sound and Image Interaction (30 credits)
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Ensemble Performance (15 credits)
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Composition (Studio) (15 credits)
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Composition (Instrumental) (15 credits)
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Composition (Moving Images) (15 credits)
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Global Perspectives: London’s Musical Communities (15 credits)
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Performance 3A (15 credits)
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Disruptive Divas, Riot Grrrls and Bad Sistas: A History of Women in Popular Music (15 credits)
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Mentoring and Coaching for Leadership (15 credits)
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Sound, Art and Technoculture (15 credits)
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Sound, Music and the Moving Image (15 credits)
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Electronic Dance Music (15 credits)
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Romantic Aesthetics (15 credits)
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Jazz (15 credits)
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Music in East Asia
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Video Game Music (15 credits)
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Fifty Shades of Red. Russia in the Twentieth Century (15 credits)
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Modern Germany (15 credits)
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The American Century (15 credits)
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Creative Writing Workshop (15 credits)
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Place and Space (15 credits)
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Global Popular Musics (15 credits)
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Interdisciplinarity and Collaborative Process (15 credits)
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Rhythm (15 credits)
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Orchestral and Instrumental Studies (15 credits)
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Performance Practice (15 credits)
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Nineteenth-Century Opera (15 credits)
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The Classical Style: Music, Aesthetics, Society (15 credits)
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Lieder (15 credits)
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Principles of Music Education (15 credits)
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Sensing Music (15 credits)
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Micro-Placement (15 credits)
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Industry Projects (15 credits)
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Year Placement: Integrated Professional Training (15 credits)
Placements
You can apply to take a sandwich year working in a placement between years two and three of the degree as part of the school's Integrated Professional Training Programme.
It is also possible to spend one term on the study abroad scheme and one term in a work placement in the UK. Alternatively, the Erasmus Plus Scheme enables students to spend a year working in Europe.
