Creative Music Technology

Why Creative Music Technology?

Creative Music Technology is one of the most innovative and popular of the new degree areas on offer in the UK, with the three courses at the Scarborough Campus attracting over 400 applicants yearly. Unlike some of the more engineering-oriented courses on offer elsewhere, the degree programmes on offer within CMT are designed for creative musicians.

There is plenty of flexibility in the degrees, allowing you to realise your creative potential in a number of fields including songwriting, film music, electronica, sonic arts, performance, jazz, experimentalism, and pop/rock musicology. At each stage in the programme you will be encouraged to make creative use of the latest technologies in sound recording, mixing, sound design, live electronics, web authoring and multimedia, and by the end of the course you will be fully versed in the use of industry-standard hardware and software.

As a student at the Scarborough Campus, you will not only be able to realise your creative ambitions with expert supervision, but you will also meet other students from all areas of musical life, and work with other enthusiasts in collaborative projects. There is much emphasis on academic rigour and structured tuition, with timetabled lectures, workshops and regular assignments, but there is also plenty of opportunity to work independently in any of our newly equipped studios (such as our country-leading Ambisonic studio) and you will be positively encouraged to produce work that is innovative and individual.

By the third year, you will be able to concentrate on an extended piece of work, the Long Study. Possible examples include an original album of commercial standard, a portfolio of compositions (electroacoustic or acoustic), a multimedia project featuring original music or an extended dissertation. Click to hear examples of Long Study work by last year's graduates.