Music and Media Technologies (M.Phil.)

The programme covers a range of subjects within the general field of music technology and provides students with a professional qualification.

The first two semesters form a self-contained Postgraduate Diploma course which provides the necessary musical and technological skills to allow creative individuals to engage in computer-assisted composition and production, apply software tools for the music and New Media industries and/or enter the arena of music-on-screen: production for New Media products.

In Semester 1, students take one core module, Research Methods, and choose five electives out of the following six: Electroacoustic Composition 1, Sonic Arts – Semester 1, Creative Coding, Visual Music 1, Audio Engineering, and Introduction to Max.

In Semester 2, students take one core module, Psychoacoustics, and choose five electives from these eight (or 4 out of 8 if Motion Picture Engineering is taken): Electroacoustic Composition 2, Sonic Practice – Semester 2, Visual Music 2; Programming Interactive Systems; Audio Production Techniques; Spatial Audio; Introduction to XR Technologies; Motion Picture Engineering.

The third (summer) semester of study, leading to the award of the M.Phil.degree, is open to those who passed both the first and second semesters and has a greater research orientation. It requires the completion of a research project and written thesis, which can be of a musical or technological nature.