Course Overview
The BA in Music Technology aims to cultivate wide-ranging technical and aesthetic skills associated with the broad subject of music technology. The music technology department is a vibrant and key player in the cross disciplinary ethos of the Swansea School of Digital Media. The school offers an exciting portfolio of digital media courses, and our practice-based degrees offer an opportunity for the student to develop the key skills necessary for employment in the creative and cultural industries. Our new programmes celebrate the combination of creative and logical thinking necessary to perform many of the cross-disciplinary functions needed in these industries: digital artists who have cultivated a rich combination of creative and technical skills and who can maintain a broad cross-disciplinary awareness.
Developing people with this approach can be difficult - particularly the combination of creative and technical thinking - but it is the intention of our degree programmes to inspire such people. The School includes a dedicated team of friendly staff, many of whom have extensive industry experience. We have strong links with industry, use the latest releases of industry-standard software, and have extensive facilities for the creation of 3D computer animation, computer games, audio, video, and interactive content for the web and mobile devices.
Key Features
Being a creative digital artist one of the only thriving, pivotal industries of this extraordinarily progressive era means that you will be a key player in the social, cultural, and political transformations our society is currently going through. It means opportunity: the opportunity to contribute to and enrich the future of our global connected culture.
Modules
- Production Practice 1
- Studio Practice
- Digital Audio Systems
- The Music Business
- Contextual Studies
- Electronics
- Production Practice 2
- Production Practice 3
- Sound Lab 2
- Synthesis
- Marketing
- Mixing
- Sound for New Media
- Live Sound
- Technical Paper
- Entrepreneurship
- Major Project
- Project Seminar
International
Erasmus
During your time with us you will have the opportunity to study abroad with the Erasmus exchange programmes currently running with Universities in Norway, Barcelona and Sweden.
Study Abroad
Students can also take up the opportunity to study a semester in the USA and Canada.
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Course Tutor(s)
- Simon Kilshaw
- Dr Paul Hazel
- Brian Breeze
- Gethin Woolcock
- Michael Johnson
- Peter Williams
- Ian Simmons
Assessment
Coursework, portfolio, practical, presentation
Career Opportunities
It is the School's experience that its graduates have an excellent range of technologically advanced transferable skills that enable them to gain employment in a diverse range of contemporary media companies as well as becoming directly employed in the music industry. In this sense, Swansea School of Digital Media offers a unique opportunity to students in that the student on entering the School is fully integrated into the commercial digital media sector through the strong relationships the School has developed with individual companies. These companies have access to the students throughout their time at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and so have the opportunity of watching at close hand individual developments. This has helped enormously to secure employment on graduation for a significant number of the School's students.
Graduates from the Music Technology programmes will have gained the following transferable skills such as an Comprehensive knowledge of a range of industry standard software; A detailed knowledge of the history of technology; Creative lateral thinking; Research skills; Communication skills that will allow the student to make effective presentations, talk coherently and intelligently about their subject area, and be able write clearly and concisely; Experience of working in teams. Many graduates choose to embark onto the Masters in Creative Sound Production offered by the university.
Further Information
Related Courses
- Certificate of Higher Education Art and Design Foundation
- MMus Tech Music Technology
- MA Creative Sound Production
Additional Costs
Our students have access to a diverse range of equipment and resources, which in most cases are sufficient to complete their programme of study. We provide the basic materials necessary for students to develop their practical work within our extensive workshop and studio facilities. However, it is likely that art and design students will incur some additional costs to extend their investigation of their personal practice. For example, purchasing their own specialised materials and equipment, joining in optional study trips, and printing.
