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Unleash your creativity in our industry-standard studios. And graduate with a CV-ready portfolio to help you break into the music production industry.
You’ll work on major creative projects, both individually and collaboratively. Surrounded by a tight-knit community of performers, composers, songwriters, and fellow producers.
Our course is industry accredited by JAMES, representing APRS, MPG and associate industry bodies. So, by the time you graduate, you’ll have the skills, knowledge and confidence to become the practitioner you want to be.
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About this course
Today’s music producers must be creative, knowledgeable, adaptable and entrepreneurial. And to be able to work confidently with others across professional contexts.
On this accredited course, you’ll gain experience in project management, entrepreneurship and collaboration. All essential to a music production professional. Our assessments focus on practical outcomes. They’ll help you build up a professional portfolio of work for when you graduate. And throughout your degree, we’ll always encourage you to share your work with the wider public.
You’ll understand and adopt the standards expected in the music production industry. As well as how to gain financial and legal control of your craft. And you’ll hone your skills with our expert staff. They have experience of working with the opportunities and challenges of the creative industry. And can help you learn how to navigate and adapt.
And you can tap into our partnerships with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) and Opera North. RPO musicians will hold masterclasses and offer career advice. As well as ensemble coaching, one-to-one tuition and opportunities to get experience at rehearsals and concerts.
Music sounds better with us
Module options
Each year, you’ll study modules worth a certain number of credits, and you need 120 credits per year. Most modules are 20 credits – so you’ll study six modules each year. Some longer modules, such as a dissertation, are worth more. In these cases, you’ll study fewer modules - but the number of credits will always add up to 120. Some modules are compulsory, some are optional, so you can build a course that’s right for you.
Filters
Core Studio Techniques
Being a modern production practitioner requires a broad skillset. This is a highly practical module, where you will develop a strong foundation in real and virtual studio engineering; recording skills using professional SSL consoles in bespoke studio spaces; as well as a fluency in software.
core
20 credits
Creating Recorded Music
Writer? Performer? Producer? Whatever your focus, you’ll work with fellow musicians to fully realise a musical recording. You’ll learn how to collaborate with others, each with different skills and roles, to create original music (including songwriting, instrumental works, electronic tracks and anything in-between) or to capture performance as a recorded artefact. You’ll finish the module with a portfolio-ready work.
core
20 credits
Creating Live Music
Channel your creativity into a live music event to develop your technical and artistic skills whatever your musical interests. You’ll collaborate with music and music production students to create a unique and original live music event, alongside developing core skills in project management, repertoire development and artistic presentation.
core
20 credits
Music, Criticism and Culture
Music can be profoundly significant for individuals in their daily lives, for politically-charged movements, and for entire cultures. This module will teach you different ways to ask such questions of music, and will help you to apply ideas derived from core literature to contemporary case studies.
core
20 credits
Applied Studio Techniques
This module will provide you with the ideas, techniques and working practices to realise complete music productions – by creating your own. You’ll investigate and explore recording and mixing technique in and out of the studio to develop your theoretical understanding of the forces at your disposal and how they contribute to the resulting musical work.
core
20 credits
Music and its Histories
This introduces you to narratives that characterise histories of music across different historical periods, technologies, and styles. You will explore these while also pursuing specialist studies relevant to your degree pathway. Through a range of different music, you will look at their histories and the assumptions behind the construction of such histories.
core
20 credits
Music Production Techniques
Explore cutting edge recording and presentation methods, including 360° ambisonics, investigating how it shapes production aesthetics and its use for large-scale music capture. Develop your understanding of later-stage production approaches, such as mastering, and grasp time- and pitch-bending tools to engineer a range of projects, alongside a deeper understanding of underlying theoretical concepts.
core
20 credits
Individual Creative Project
What would you like to create? This module gives you the time, space, and expert support that you need to bring your individual project to life. You’ll be supported through planning, executing, and completion – which may be a performance, composition, recording, songwriting EP, educational practical project, or piece of sound design
core
20 credits
Collaborative Creative Project
Creative project management will explore the key methods used in a broad range of creative industries to organise and manage complex projects.
core
20 credits
Our facilities
Our academics
From DJs to band members, stage performers to session musicians, our performance-led staff are active in making music themselves. And they bring their passion and experience into everything you learn.
So you can be sure you’re getting a great education.
Dr Mark Slater
Lecturer
Mark is a composer, producer and musicologist with an interest in the processes of how music is made, usually including uses of technology and improvisation in some way. His work is fuelled by an exploration of spontaneity and collaboration.
Dr Rowan Oliver
Senior Lecturer
Before joining the University of Hull, Rowan spent several years touring the world as the drummer in Goldfrapp (among various other musical exploits). He continues to record and perform internationally as a session musician.
Entry Requirements
Fees & Funding
How much is it?
Future prospects
You’ll graduate with essential skills for the music industry, plus a professional portfolio of material for your CV. You’ll learn how to communicate confidently, both through your craft and face-to-face. You’ll also have access to our network of professional partners, providing opportunities for live projects, work experience, masterclasses, and more.
Some students set up record labels before they graduate. Others carve out their own careers in the industry. Our graduates go on to become music producers, studio managers, sound engineers, and freelance composers. They also pursue careers in music teaching and journalism.
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