MMus Creative Music Technology
by Distance Learning

Course Overview

Creative Music Technology

Two Year Programme

The programme is designed for active musicians who are currently working within the music industry and are looking to develop their skills further in order to advance their professional career.

This programme is delivered entirely on-line allowing you to continue with your existing commitments. The flexibility of this course means that consideration will be given to your personal circumstances and the modular nature will enable you to choose materials which match your area of interest.

The two year programme will equip you with the necessary skills within current technologies coupled by practical techniques to create a portfolio of new music using your computer music workstation. Supportive study modules will provide you with a working discipline, a sense of context and an aesthetic awareness in relation to your own music and that of others. You will develop confidence in embracing change, which is both inevitable and a driving force in creative music technology.

You will have a designated tutor with whom you will have regular one-to-one tuition with focusing on your creative projects. This will be through either the exchange of music files and emails over the internet or by face-to-face tuition with web conferencing. Supporting study modules will be delivered through a combination of recorded video files downloaded or streamed on demand, text or interactive use of conferencing and forums. For many students, using a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) will be a new experience and an induction module is designed to familiarise students by exploring its main features.

Throughout the course you will be encouraged to interact with fellow students and with current on-campus students through, project work, virtual classes and performances, maintaining the conservatoire experience.

The course builds on the experience of the established and successful on-campus MMus in Creative Music Technology but is entirely new and will extend to musicians worldwide. So students residing outside the UK who are seeking a Masters course in creative music technology can develop their music and broaden their range of activity with latest technology can also now fully engage with this course without leaving home.

Graduates of this ground-breaking course can expect to develop their creative music skills with the technology while also able to continue with their normal day-to-day activities. This will help them expand the scope of possibilities within their own chosen careers.