Innovation in Sound (Taught)

The Innovation in Sound master's degree offers a flexible and multidisciplinary approach that deliberately blurs the boundaries between artistic practice, technology development, and academic research. You have the freedom to tailor the course content to suit your own creative and career goals, working with specialist equipment and guided by experts in sound innovation.

This cutting-edge master’s degree combines experimental sound practice with emerging technologies, giving you the tools and frameworks to develop groundbreaking audio work. You'll explore areas like spatial audio, interactive sound design, AI-assisted composition, cross-disciplinary audio applications, and immersive installations.

Module Breakdown
The course takes place over three trimesters, covering 90 weeks across the two years of study. Over the course of five modules, you’ll be introduced to what it means to innovate across multiple disciplines, develop your own ideas within innovation, build a network of specialists within your chosen field and produce a final piece of work informed by your explorations and experiments in the previous modules.

Practice‍

In this module we encourage you to be bold and to try new things through practical investigation and experimentation; and push you to further develop your own ‘voice’ in the area of music production.

You will demonstrate a strategic and creative approach to problem solving, while embracing experimentation and iterative processes to refine your innovative ideas.‍

Exploration‍

You will begin with an exploration of the theoretical concepts of innovation, examining studies of multidisciplinary collaborations where innovation has been implemented to generate new ideas and solutions to problems. This will introduce you to a range of theoretical and creative applications that will help form your future work.

Integration‍

This module encourages you to deepen your postgraduate technical practice, develop your strengths in creating a project, potentially working in a team, within the cohort across multiple disciplines; with an emphasis on technical integration, such as interfacing between software and hardware.

Industry & Development‍

You will identify and establish connections with specialists in their field, making use of networking potential, research hubs and forums, so that you may explore your chosen field of study more deeply. Collaboration can be sought with industry professionals, other institutions, businesses and international networks.

Implementation

‍The realisation of your final major project within your own chosen area of innovation; made up of a proposal, logs of progress, the final exhibition of your work presented as a 'portfolio' or 'showreel' and an evaluation.