Music Technology

Course summary

This specification aims to encourage students to develop a range of skills, knowledge and understanding needed to create and produce music using modern music technology. It provides an extraordinary course of study to broaden experience, foster creativity and promote personal and social development. This is a hands on course which involves recording a band in a studio, creating a composition using synthesis and sampling and learning about the history of recorded sound. This includes learning about the development of popular music genres and also looks at the underlying science of sound. It is a gateway qualification for a wide range of music industry posts including music recording and production, theatre, radio, podcasts and concerts.