BA (Hons) Electronic Music and Sound Bachelor's degree at the University of Brighton

Through working with sound and listening practices, this module helps you learn how to record and use environmental sounds in your compositions. You will build technical skills and explore a range of musical styles, histories and cultures, helping you develop a reflective and informed approach to creating your own music.

This module gives you an introduction to creative applications and techniques relating to work in sound studios, loop based music and composition. You'll explore the nature of sampling, synthesis, psychoacoustics and compositional techniques, and be encouraged to produce both collaborative and individual work.

This module introduces you to key sonic cultures that have influenced contemporary electronic music and sound practices. You will gain an understanding of the practical, conceptual, cultural and aesthetic contributions of selected practitioners and theorists. You will also develop your professional communication skills through the presentation and discussion of your own creative work.

This module will introduce you to a variety of creative approaches to the concept of sound distribution as it is applied in contemporary sound practices. You will explore techniques for conceptualising projects, gathering or generating materials, developing technical skills, and look at methods for distributing sound in both virtual and physical spaces.

This module introduces you to visual programming, electronics, networked systems and sound installations. You will explore technologies used to build creative compositional systems and installations, and look at generative techniques used in a range of creative contexts. Examples of contemporary practitioners and key ideas help support the framework for each topic. You can work individually or in groups to research, develop and critique your projects.

You will gain a broad understanding of the cultural contexts of popular music genres, styles, issues and debates so you can place popular music within key historical developments. Topics covered include collecting popular music – ethics and issues; media construction and representations of musical history; research methods for exploring popular music history; the evolution of popular music studies; authenticity debates; and glocalisation.

This module offers you the opportunity to explore conventional and experimental forms of composition and sound design strategies for screen-based audiovisual formats including surround sound in film, TV, video, the web, mobile devices, games and audiovisual installations.

This module will give you a broad introduction to the development of sound and music for film, TV, video and new media. You will investigate the structural use of sound/music for narrative and experimental audiovisual works and develop an understanding of the dynamic relationship between sound and music and moving images by analysing examples. New audiovisual aesthetics in contemporary media will also be explored.

The lectures in this module, which works in tandem with the Sound Art Theory module, each address a different topic and are devised to develop the skills and techniques associated with specific applications. In the practical work, you will tackle conceptual and technological problems specific to different sound art forms and gain an understanding of the key issues relating to each area.

This module traces the history of sound art from its twentieth century inception to the present day, exploring the different strategies employed in the field, including sound objects, sound sculptures, sound installations, radio art, soundscapes, interactive sound productions and events. You will examine sound art in the context of contemporary media culture and related arts, such as improvisation, performance and visual arts.

In this module, you will create proposals for your Final Project and Research Essay which will be linked and developed in parallel. The Research Essay will support the development of the studio practice of the practical Final Project and will provide historical, contextual, theoretical and conceptual research which forms the basis for it.

This module further develops your independent research skills, supporting you to produce scholarly research and creative writing linked to your studio practice or a specific topic of interest. You will gain the skills needed to become a professional artist-researcher, learn to read critically, turn reading into writing, and develop your own voice, style and form, alongside the ability to write both critically and creatively.

In this module you will develop your ongoing Final Project with supportive critical reviews at key points. Through practical investigations and theoretical research, drawing on research essay work, you will continue to evolve your own specialism within the wider arena of sound work practices.

This module supports your own professional development by covering a variety of related issues and vocational directions. You will gain a broad understanding of professional structures and career options within the field of sonic design and composition for the moving image and new media, contemporary music and sound production, sound arts and related areas.

This module facilitates the completion of your individual Final Project. You will continue to develop your project and address issues raised by your chosen area of practice in work-in-progress seminars and tutorial sessions. These will provide a supportive forum for you to develop ideas, consider creative and aesthetic decisions and consolidate your practice-based research and investigations.