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Music Technology
BA (Hons)
Why study this course?
Led by inspiring creative practitioners and researchers, Keele’s Music Technology
degree enables you to work on composition, music production, sound design,
screen music, audio-visuals and music software development.
You will study many different styles and genres, inventing, capturing,
recording, mixing and manipulating audio in a variety of contexts. You
will also explore the theory of sound, the history of audio technology,
and the cultural contexts of music. As a Keele Music Technology student
you’ll have 24/7 access to our purpose-built recording and project
studios, practice rooms, a vast library of digital media assets and also
an extensive music library. For performers, there is a richly varied
musical life on campus. Alongside the opportunity to do a module-based
work placement in the local community, you can also combine Music
Technology with components of Keele’s Music programme to create an
individually tailored, distinctive degree that reflects your imagination and
passions.
What will this mean for my future?
With experience of individual and collaborative projects, you’ll also have
the skills you need to pursue a wide range of careers involving creative
technologies, and to undertake further training in a range of related
professions. Career paths open to Keele Music Technology graduates
include broadcasting, recording, production, sound design, soundtrack
creation, software design, songwriting and performance, as well as
original audio and audiovisual composition, studio work, and teaching at
all levels of education. You might choose to work as a freelance sound
designer for games and video, as a sound technician or as a community
musician. Graduates in Music Technology also develop careers as
broadcast engineers, theatre stage managers, radio producers and
multimedia specialists.
INDICATIVE MODULES
First Year
• Audio Fundamentals
• Sonic Arts Repertoire
• Composing with Sound
• Sound Recording
• Music Theory
• Twentieth-Century Musics
Second Year
• Audio-Visual Composition
• Interactive Music and Sound
Processing
• Record Production
• Creative Sound Design
• Music in the Community (work
placement module)
• Composition
Third Year
• Portfolio of Studio-based
Creative Work
• Music Programming Project
• Interactive Music
• Arts, Technology and Society
• Composition
• World Music
KEY INFORMATION
UCAS Code - WJ39
Foundation Year
Yes
Indicative entry
requirements
Single Honours
A level: BCC-CCC
BTEC: DMM-MMM
Combined Honours
A level: BCC-CCC
BTEC: DMM-MMM
Course duration
3 years or 4 years
with an international
year
Study abroad
Yes
International Year
Yes
Learn a Language
Yes
For information on courses that combine subjects please visit keele.ac.uk/ugcourses