Why choose Herts?

Excellent reputation: Ranked 1st as best creative media and entertainment school in the UK (Rookies, 2021)

Teaching excellence: Delivered by Bruce Aisher, a music producer, songwriter, composer, remixer, sound designer and technology journalist with featured work in over 100 commercially released tracks (including a US Billboard Club Chart No.1) and on TV programmes such as ‘CSI’ and 'Top Gear', and products by Apple, Clavia, and Native Instruments.

Employment prospects: Graduates work as exciting composers, producers, technician managers, technical editors, and sound engineers for organisations such as Apple, Channel 4, and Creative Assembly.

 

About the course

• explore the most advanced studio techniques, technologies and processes at the forefront of current music production
• unleash your creative potential and cultivate your own individual style to produce original arrangements, mixes, re-mixes and mastering work
• deliver comprehensive solutions and support for live sound in a variety of performance settings
• on this postgraduate degree you will create your own A/V interfaces, plug-ins, and programming codes.

 

Why choose this course?

Music and Sound Technology in Audio Engineering is designed to provide industry-relevant post-graduate education aimed at forming creative professional for the audio, production, and post-production industry, who wish to pursue careers as creative Audio Engineers within recording, production or live sound settings. Students take hands-on sessions in the University's state-of-the-art facilities, including a top-class SSL studio, guided by dedicated tutors with significant industry experience. The postgraduate curriculum covers all the most relevant and current skills of the field, and sessions and assessment are designed to reproduce, as far as possible and appropriate, the realities of the commercial environment.

 

We are one of the largest music department in the UK, offering a rich portfolio of forward-looking music programmes uniquely designed to develop the most relevant skills in the current industry. The environment is friendly and supportive, and students benefit from being part of a large community of creatives in all fields: from film, to new media, performance, and fine arts.