Music Technology

Course summary

This is a challenging and exciting course that will introduce you to the skills and knowledge you need to work in the music technology industry. It will develop both your practical skills and your ability to listen analytically to music. If you enjoy making music on computers rather than performing live, it could be an excellent A-level choice. What you’ll study This course is a mixture of practical and academic work. You’ll learn how to capture, edit, process and mix recordings. You’ll also create, edit, manipulate and structure sounds to produce technology-based compositions. Throughout the course, you’ll learn about recording and production techniques and principles, studying how they’ve developed from mono, and analogue technologies in the 1930s to modern digital technologies. Your studies will fall into three main areas: - Recording and production techniques for both corrective and creative purposes - The principles of sound and audio technology - The development of recording and production technology.