BA (Hons) Music Production, Performance and Business Bachelor's degree at Westminster

This module exposes you to a range of creative practices, analytical skills and psychological strategies that you can feed into your artistic development.

This module immerses you in a set of real-world music industry projects. Participants work in teams on collaborative tasks, including business, songwriting, production and performance, leading to a music release. The curriculum fosters fundamental skills and industry insights, preparing you for the collaborative nature of the music industry.

This module provides an induction and understanding of creative and collaborative research practice, assessment processes and group working required in creative practice subjects. The module will introduce you to the University's commitment to the United Nations' Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). You'll be challenged to experiment individually, undertaking contextual and practical research, which will contribute to a significant group project where students will be allocated creative role

This module introduces you to the complex network of stakeholders that make up music industries. The module will explore the key developments that have influenced different stakeholders in the music industries from music makers, music publishers, record companies, digital aggregators, and streaming service providers. The module will consider emergent AI in its three main areas of Music Information Retrieval, Creativity and AI as a competitor. The module will explore how public policy and entrepr

This module will enable you to gain confidence in using digital tools by learning the fundamentals of music production and developing an individual creative practice sound. You'll be required to produce industry-standard productions employing bold and innovative methods. Overall, the module will develop digital skills, critical thinking and listening and technical, discipline-related competencies designed to foster creative practice in music.

This module investigates the profound impact of Black British music cultures on the UK's post-war popular music landscape. Focusing on the African diaspora's essential role, it explores marginalised British groups' vital contributions. Drawing from BMRU archive, it connects pioneering British Black music innovations like dub plates, breakbeats, and genres like jungle, drum, bass, garage, grime. It highlights these music economies under-explored importance. Incorporating research by UK music

This module introduces students to professional songwriting and music publishing through creative work, collaboration and industry briefs. Students will develop songs either from a publishing or songwriting role, exploring commercial and creative decision making and gaining a practical understanding of roles, rights, contracts and the wider music industry.

In this module, students will explore concepts, techniques, and creative processes involved in contemporary music production, particularly in the context of recording, music creation, and mixing of recorded music, using industry-standard tools and software. The role of the music producer is discussed throughout the entire module and continuously evaluates the producer-artist relationship, including contexts in which the producer also functions as the artist.

This module offers a deep dive into the live music industry, blending production, performance, and business aspects. You'll plan and execute live events, engaging with current technologies and creative strategies. Emphasis on teamwork and critical reflection prepares them for diverse industry roles, enhancing skills in event management, sound engineering, and artistic performance.

This year-long module develops skills in music marketing, digital creativity, and online communication. Students learn key marketing principles, audience engagement, and brand development while creating digital content and online identities. Through practical tasks and collaboration, they apply theory to produce effective, reflective, and professionally informed creative work.

This module introduces you to the professional creative industries and provides you with experience of related workplace environments, relevant to the host course, through a range of tailored professional projects, including a work placement (alternatives may include client-set briefs and curated public events). Taught sessions introduce different career possibilities and provide an overview of professional skills, as well as introducing you to relevant support within the University and external

This module develops your technical and creative skills in programming, recording, arranging and mixing contemporary music. You'll explore arrangement, vocal production, sound design, and digital audio workstation (DAW) techniques while analysing current industry trends. Practical projects and collaborative studio sessions are used to identify professional workflows and artistic identity in contemporary music production.

The module is delivered by the Black Music Research Unit (BMRU) external music industry experts, and guest speakers. This module introduces you to a range of accessible early career funding opportunities for musicians, performers and business projects. As well as providing an outline of the current UK funding landscape, this module prepares you to understand, plan and prepare for the different requirements between investment, funders, and different streams of capital. A key deliverable and learn

Composing and Performing for Media is a dynamic module that sees you placed in authentic learning environments as you are challenged to compose and perform music for video games, brands, music, adverts and library companies. You'll work on professional briefs designed to facilitate the skills and knowledge required to work as a professional creative. The primary outcome of the module is to showcase the expanding opportunities for composers and performers working in the media. This will also requ

Synchronisation involves the licensing and creative use of commercial music by non-music industry businesses in visual products and media (ie music in advertising, TV, film, video games and online content). Synchronisation, along with 'brand collaborations' between musicians and brands for online content, is an increasingly important income stream for young musicians and producers. As a growth sector in the music industry, synchronisation also offers early career job opportunities for music stud

The Final Major Project is the culmination of the production, performance and business degree course and the opportunity for you to create innovative and 'remarkable' work. You will apply knowledge and experience from Levels 4 and 5 to create a large-scale project with tutorial support, reflecting your career ambitions. In many cases, this may extend from work developed in previous modules; equally, it may allow you to explore and investigate a new direction. The first project phase confirms the

Through self-directed research, informed by work experience, you'll develop a critical understanding of a chosen specialism within music practice, with particular attention to the specific demands of freelance work and entry-level employment in that area. You'll relate their learning in music production, performance, and business to the skills required in the workplace, thereby enhancing their ability to present and promote both their disciplinary expertise and transferable skills in a professio

The module addresses the activities necessary for Advanced Audio Production briefs and working in a professional context, to current professional practice standards. You can select a mode for working in a professional context in negotiation with your tutor, and on the objectives that you aim to achieve within the learning outcomes of the module. This module is designed to encourage you to engage with innovative professional, technical, and creative practices across various areas of audio product