Music Technology MMus

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Overview

Our postgraduate courses in Music Technology provide an opportunity for composers and composer-performers to experiment with and develop expertise in the creative application of established and new music technologies.

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is an internationally important centre for performance and composition with technology, especially live electronics. An example of its work is the highly acclaimed Integra Live project, an application that makes it easy to use interactive audio processing to create new music.

As you might expect, in this context, our postgraduate courses in Music Technology provide an exciting opportunity for composers and composer-performers to experiment with and develop expertise in the creative application of established and new music technologies.

Alongside your focus on Music Technology, our courses provide opportunities for you to develop other skills relevant to a future career in the music profession.

What's covered in the course?

• Regular individual tuition in Music Technology from world-leading practitioners and researchers


• A chance to develop a distinctive creative voice within the context of a broad-based course, enhancing your employability.


• The opportunity to participate in a wide variety of creative projects, including interdisciplinary collaborations.


• Access to state-of-the-art hardware, software, recording studios and performance spaces including our experimental black-box performance space called The Lab.


• Regular forums, seminars and masterclasses with distinguished visiting composers and performers.