Become a sonic visionary and learn how to put your own creative fingerprint on a range of music and sound. Walking the line between vocational technical training, creative practice and critical thinking, you’ll develop a personal approach and a unique sound as a music producer or sound engineer. 

In the Creative Audio Production & Sound Engineering degree you’ll be immersed in a learning experience that equips you with the latest knowledge and technical skills in sound production. You’ll learn through first-hand experience using our industry-standard studios, workshops led by practising industry professionals, solo endeavours to master every step of the audio journey from ideation to release, and collaborative projects that reach across the spectrum of creative production. You’ll make singles, EPs, music for film, a variety of engineering projects, a studio album and much more.

By the end of the course, you’ll have a wealth of experience and the confidence to bring your own ventures as well as projects set by others to fruition. This hard work will form a solid portfolio, setting you up to make waves in your chosen slice of the audio industry.

You can study this programme either as a full three-year BA degree or the first year only as a one-year HE Certificate.

Open a world of musical possibilities:

You’ll learn to use our studios as an instrument for recording, mixing and mastering projects and products. As a sound engineer, you’ll play that instrument to capture the purest essence of the original performance. As a producer, you’ll be the creative visionary and project manager taking ideas from their birthplace in the imagination of the artist, band or composer and helping transform them into a sublime and tangible sonic reality. As a contemporary studio-based composer, you'll take all of these roles and meld them into something new and unique. 

We offer a playground for musical self-discovery. Rather than showing you how to copy the work of other producers, we’ll empower you to forge your own creative journey. Whether that’s experimenting using a DAW (digital audio workstation), fostering a network of industry professionals or doubling down on investigating acoustic theory and practice, you’ll always learn by doing here. 

Is this programme for you?

You should be interested in some or all of the following:

• Establishing your own distinct and creative approach to sound engineering and music production.
• Developing new and innovative audio production methodologies.
• Providing sound engineering expertise to support studio recordings.
• Developing finely-honed listening skills.
• Providing well-informed creative input to a track, song, album, composition for film etc.
• Enhancing recordings with high-level mastering techniques.
• Building a comprehensive knowledge of industry-standard tools and techniques.
• Building a career in the international music, film or gaming industries.
• Learning by doing and gaining hands-on experience applicable to real-life work.
• Joining a progressive learning community supported by a dedicated team of experienced facilitators.
• Living and working in Berlin, the most exciting city on the planet for music makers.
• Collaborating with a community of like-minded people from over 75 different countries.

Career opportunities:

As the focus of the course is on helping others actualise their own sound, you’ll be well-positioned to become a studio engineer specialising in recording, mixing or mastering, or a live engineer for events. Working as a music artist who records and tours your own music will also certainly be a route available to you.

• Completing the one-year HE Certificate course will put you in a position to work as a freelance sound engineer.
• Completing the full three-year BA (Hons) course will set you up for a huge range of career possibilities. 

You’ll be ready for roles in songwriting, composing and arranging, or taking a step back and diving into acoustics and studio construction. You’ll be able to work in content creation, making sample packs, branding, adverts or jingles as well as being able to design the tools as a software or plug-in designer. You may opt to explore the role of a media artist, working with audiovisual, sound and interactive installations.