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Orchestrating music is just one component of the Futureworks BA (Hons) Music Production course. The course is constructed to ensure you experience all aspects of the role of music producer, to help you understand and prepare you for a music industry career.
Guided by our industry-active tutors, you’ll be introduced to production equipment, software, hardware, and industry-standard practices and expertise. You’re assessed on what you create, and the course modules are focused on helping you develop your talent, promote your brand and build your music business profile.
Why embark on a Music Production Degree with Futureworks?
Futureworks boasts 12 incredible studios, facilities and equipment, all available for you to use throughout your studies. No matter what genre of music you prefer, we have the skills, knowledge and kit to meet your creative needs.
As a component of our vocational remit, our tutors are professional practising industry professionals. Their industry experience is vital to ensure the most up-to-date standards, expertise and skills are taught in our courses. It also means they have influential industry contacts that you can tap into for real-world projects. You’ll also have opportunities to acquire professional credits during your time at Futureworks and construct an enviable list of your own industry contacts to boost your music career.
Our unique proposition is our focus on creative industry education. We host multiple creative industry disciplines across a range of degree courses and schools. This gives our students a microcosm of creative collaboration that mirrors the creative industry and enables them to work across disciplines on personal and course-based projects.
Gaining Real World Experience
The innovative ‘Futureworks Music‘ label allows you to release music, work with artists, and gain experience in signing contracts and licensing music – all vocational experiences that will benefit your future music career. There are regular Riverside Live sessions you can get involved in, see the one from last year here:
Your Career Opportunities
As with all our Bachelor of Arts degree programmes, the opportunities and careers are broad and varied; there are many career paths you could take, such as Music Producer, Artist, Studio Engineer, Sound Designer, Sonic Art, Live Sound, Game Audio, Film Sound, Composer, Studio Manager, Label A&R, marketing, commercial branding and teaching. You could also consider progression to postgraduate study, such as MA and MSc programmes in Sound & Music Production Audio, Sound Design, Electroacoustic Composition and more.
Follow the links for more information about the BA (Hons) Music Production course and to listen to some of our student work.
