About MA Sound (production), Pg Dip Sound (production), Pg Cert Sound (production) in Bath Spa University

Develop your own signature sound and production style through this forward-thinking music composition and sound production course. You’ll be able to tailor the MA Sound (Production) course's content to your own style and skills.

The content will cover aesthetic considerations, technology, and techniques utilised in modern music making.

The award is deliberately unbounded by genre, and there are opportunities to take an interdisciplinary approach to sound production, including contemporary electronic music, studio and field recording, experimental music, and sound design for composition. Opportunities for working with visual media are also encouraged.

The MA Sound (Production) programme is tailored towards individuals who are keen to hone their composition and production skills inside an intertextual and cross-disciplinary framework that pushes at the stylistic boundaries of genre.

The programme encourages interdisciplinary and collaborative working methods with students from the wider music community at Bath Spa, as well as visual media and other departments within the University.

While the programme has a music production focus, it also covers key areas of practice such as:

• Sound design
• Electronic music composition
• Soundscape and field recording
• Traditional studio practices
• Sound engineering
• Spatial audio and sound design
• Composition for visual media.

You won’t be expected to cover all of these areas. You’ll be able to use the course to develop an individually-tailored portfolio of skills, experience, and top-level work across them.

The course is part of a suite of courses available across Music and Sound, operating alongside "sister" pathways in Sound (Design) and Sound (Arts), which allow further specialism in these areas.

Careers

You can use the course to develop an individually-tailored portfolio of skills. This will equip you for the current employment landscape, where a combination of traditional music roles is required, alongside broader practice in sound and other media.

The course also provides the breadth necessary for FE and HE teaching in the field, and provides the basis required for PhD research and beyond.

Academic qualification equivalents

• Normally a Bachelor's degree with honours and a good passing grade from an internationally recognised university or Higher Education institution
• Other international qualifications to an equivalent standard will also be considered.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS: Academic 6.5 or 7.0 This must include a minimum of 5.5 in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
• TOEFL iBT: This must include a total of 75, to include a minimum 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking, and 17 in Writing.
• PTE: This must include a minimum of 67 in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.

Bath Spa University Highlights

Bath Spa University Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

International students joining the Bath Spa University are required to pay 70% of the tuition fees on or before arrival and commencement of the course. All payments should be made in £ sterling and the easiest way to make a payment is via Flywire. However, the payment can also be made through credit/debit card.

International students should open a UK bank account as soon as possible after arrival.

The estimated cost of attendance depends on several factors like the program applied for, tuition, books, fees, housing, dining, and personal items.