Goldsmiths, University of London · Full-time
Creative Practice
This flexible Masters is an inclusive, forward-thinking music degree, open to broad conceptions of composition, and multi-disciplinary approaches to practice. - We offer specialist focuses in popular music composition and production, sonic arts and audiovisual…
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This flexible Masters is an inclusive, forward-thinking music degree, open to broad conceptions of composition, and multi-disciplinary approaches to practice. - We offer specialist focuses in popular music composition and production, sonic arts and audiovisual cultures. - This programme gives you an opportunity to investigate and combine strategies for developing new creative work. - You’ll devise a coherent yet bespoke programme of study from an extensive list of options, and have the opportunity to uniquely blend practices from contemporary songwriting and song-based music, sound art, contemporary composition, ethnography and multi-media work. - Modules on this masters support engagement with a variety of intellectual, creative, critical and technical skills that will inform your work and culminate in a substantial creative project. - Depending on your module choices, you’ll have access to the Electronic Music Studios, which offers advanced facilities for electro-acoustic composition, multichannel work and live/interactive performance and the Goldsmiths Music Studios which offers an HD Pro-tools recording system and large format analogue desk. - The programme is exceptionally useful for students preparing for further postgraduate practice research projects, or for those wishing to develop a distinctive portfolio of work for entry into the creative industries.
Getting in
As the university states it
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least second class standard in Music or a relevant/related subject. Your qualification should comprise a substantial practical/creative element relevant to this MMus. A detailed transcript of your degree is preferred. You might also be considered if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level. Students who have completed up to 90 credits (not including final 60-credit projects or dissertations) of a comparable degree at another university can apply for recognition of prior learning status as part of their application for a place on the programme, where such credits are carried forward into your study at Goldsmiths. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.
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