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During the 1st year of the sound technology course, students learn recording and sound engineering techniques and practice live sound, the use of computers in music production and the basic building blocks of electronics; in year 2, they build on their audio engineering, recording and production skills, and start to experience live sound in a working venue; the final year of the course involves a major group project, working with students from other creative courses; students refine their production skills in recording engineering and learn about the acoustics of performance spaces.
Year 1: Covers sound engineering techniques and practice; the use of computers in music production; the basic building blocks of electronics. Year 2: Builds on audio engineering, recording and production skills; experience live sound, with the chance of experience in a working venue; learn about the sound business and be equipped to deal with contracts, copyright law and running a small business. Year 3: Major group project working with students from other courses; refine production skills in recording engineering and understand the acoustics of performance spaces; specialise in 1 of 4 areas: music production; computer-based music production and advanced sound synthesis; computer- based media production; electronics design for music.
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Mon 17th Sep 2012 |
3 years |
Full time |
The deadline for the receipt of full-tim ..more
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Pontypridd, CF37 1DL |
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£9000 per year |
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J938
University of Glamorgan
Music Technology / Production, Sound Engineering
you will need to have experience of working in the public sector as the assignments you complete need to relate to working practice...more
1 Hotcourses user(s) found the following review helpful.The course is hard, but it taught at a moderate pace...more
The 3rd year of the course, which involves a placement in America, was definitely the most exciting part of the course. First year (wales)( the lectures and tutorials are well laid out with some great teaching methods of helping you find o...more
I found the course extremely interesting. Yes I often got told "oh there's a strange combination" but I relly enjoyed both disciplines and didn't feel the need to choose one over the other as I could study both equally at Glamorgan. The sta...more
1 Hotcourses user(s) found the following review helpful.This course offers so mush and delivers quite little. The first year does have some good classes with lectures using different methods of getting students to discover more about themselves, meeting other class mates whilst learning. The s...more
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