Electronic Music Production

The BA (Hons) Electronic Music Production course is designed for producers, DJs, and sonic artists who want to develop a distinctive creative voice, explore cutting-edge tools, and thrive in the electronic music scene. You’ll gain the skills to create, perform, and release original work while developing a strong foundation in production, sound design, and performance technologies.

You’ll explore synthesis, sampling, mixing, and live performance across a wide range of genres and creative approaches. From club-oriented tracks to experimental soundscapes, you’ll be supported to push boundaries, refine your technical fluency, and shape your artistic identity.

Optional modules allow you to deepen or diversify your practice, with options such as immersive audio, post-production, composition, hardware production, and marketing and promotion. As part of a suite of interlinked music degrees, you’ll also have the opportunity to collaborate with musicians, songwriters, composers, and performers on real-world projects. This reflects how the industry works and helps you build the skills to navigate professional creative environments with confidence.

Whether you’re building your brand as an artist-producer, developing a unique live set, or exploring the future of electronic performance, this course prepares you to innovate, connect, and succeed in an evolving music landscape.

Why you'll love this course

• Immerse yourself in electronic music production - Develop your creative identity as an electronic music artist, producer, or performer through modules on synthesis, sampling, sound design, and performance. You’ll explore the full spectrum of electronic music, honing your sound, refining your processes and exploring your creative boundaries.

• Deepen or diversify with optional modules - Shape your learning experience with optional modules in immersive audio, hardware production, integrative performance technologies, post-production, marketing, and more. Whatever you want to focus on, you’ll find pathways that support you and your vision.

• Collaborative creative environment - Collaborate with other producers, musicians, vocalists, composers, sound designers, live engineers, event managers and songwriters across ten interconnected music degrees, mirroring the real world and preparing you to work confidently within the music industry.

Year 1
In your first year, you’ll build a strong foundation in electronic music production, sound design, and studio practice. You’ll explore essential tools and workflows for producing and mixing your electronic music, alongside modules in synthesis, DJing, and performance skills. This year is about building confidence, technical fluency, experimenting with ideas, and learning to bring your vision to life through sound.

Year 2
In your second year, you’ll develop more advanced production and performance skills, with a strong emphasis on artistic identity and creative independence. You’ll choose from a range of optional modules to tailor your learning experience and work more independently, with increased emphasis on collaboration, creative research, and real-world application to help you prepare for your final year projects.

Year 3
In your final year, you’ll bring everything together through two major self-directed projects: one focused on building an industry-ready portfolio that reflects your artistic identity, and another exploring innovation in your chosen discipline. The final year is about consolidating your skills, defining your voice, and building a bold and original body of work ready for release, performance, or further development beyond graduation.

Year 1 - Core Modules

Industry Foundations
Music Production
Studio Practice
Mixing
Synthesis & Sound Design
DJing & Live Performance

Year 2 - Core Modules

Industry Practice
Advanced Music Production
Creative Research Practice
Advanced Mixing & Mastering

Year 2 - Option Modules

Hardware Production
Composition & Arrangement
Post Production
Integrative Performance Technologies
Commercial Music Creation
Marketing & Promotion
Immersive Audio

Year 3 - Core Modules

Innovation: Exploration
Industry Portfolio Development
Innovation: Realisation
Industry Portfolio Delivery
Sound Cultures

Year 3 - Option Modules

Music Education & Wellbeing Practice
Signature System Design
Management & Leadership in the Music Industry
Collaborative Creative Practice

Please note. Option modules are subject to availability and may change, depending on factors such as demand, staffing and timetabling. As part of our process of continuous improvement, we routinely review course content to ensure that all our students benefit from a high-quality and rewarding academic experience. As such, there may be some changes made to your course which are not immediately reflected in the content displayed on our website. Any students affected will be informed of any changes made directly.

Learning is hands-on, exploratory, and artist-led. You’ll spend significant time working in professional studios, production labs, and performance spaces, using industry-standard tools such as digital audio workstations, hardware synths, modular gear, DJ controllers, and performance technologies. Your learning is supported by workshops, seminars, collaborative projects, and reflective critique, all designed to help you refine your craft, expand your ideas, and grow as an independent artist-producer.

Assessment methods:

• Assessments are 100% coursework
• Portfolio development of live performance, creative, practical and/or technical work.‍
  ‍- Written assignments.
• Presentations.