Creative Practice (Taught)

This flexible Masters is an inclusive, forward-thinking music degree, open to broad conceptions of composition, and multi-disciplinary approaches to practice.

• Our department offers specialist focuses in popular music composition and production, sonic arts and audiovisual cultures.

• This programme gives you an opportunity to investigate and combine strategies for developing new creative work.

• You’ll devise a coherent yet bespoke programme of study from an extensive list of options, and have the opportunity to uniquely blend practices from contemporary songwriting and song-based music, sound art, contemporary composition, ethnography and multi-media work.

• Modules on this masters support engagement with a variety of intellectual, creative, critical and technical skills that will inform your work and culminate in a substantial creative project.

• Depending on your module choices, you’ll have access to the Electronic Music Studios, which offers advanced facilities for electro-acoustic composition, multichannel work and live/interactive performance and the Goldsmiths Music Studios which offers an HD Pro-tools recording system and large format analogue desk.

• The programme is exceptionally useful for students preparing for further postgraduate practice research projects, or for those wishing to develop a distinctive portfolio of work for entry into the creative industries.