Become a pioneer in the world of electronic music production with our project-based curriculum, in which experimentation and risk-taking are key to your success. With ‘hands-on’ practical workshops alongside projects designed to develop your critical thinking and creative innovation, we’ll guide you through essential electronic music production techniques and raise your performance skills to new levels.

Through relentless practice, you’ll create a bridge between the ideas in your head and a real world audience as you gain the tools and techniques for creating, mixing and presenting your own music. You’ll develop a portfolio specific to your own vision as a producer, performer, sonic artist or sound designer. 

From our full range of DAWs, hardware synthesisers, sequencers and drum machines to audio programming languages, we’ll teach you how to begin by focusing on understanding the tool and the main features of its design. Then, break out of the box as you reimagine, reverse-engineer and redesign the way the technology works to serve your very own electronic music and audio vision. 

You can study the Electronic Music Production & Performance programme either as a full three-year BA degree or the first year only as a one-year HE Certificate.

Develop your artistic voice while expanding your creative horizons:

The diversity of style, genre and experimentation in electronic music has had an immeasurable influence in today's musical landscape. But with such a fantastic range of potential paths towards finding your artistic voice, how do you uncover your own? We’ll explore how different frameworks can allow freedom for this voice to blossom. 

Our workshops give you space to deepen your understanding of your work and its place within the electronic music landscape, as well as find a purpose behind the tools and technology you choose to use. Our ‘hands-on’ approach will get you up close and personal with both the instruments and the ideas that will unlock your potential in the music industry and beyond. 

And where better to explore your musical identity than in Berlin? As a city that has long been at the global vanguard of electronic music, Berlin now has one of the most diverse, influential and prolific electronic music scenes in the world. The community both at Funkhaus and in the city will play a major part in developing your own story. So be prepared to put your ideas to work immediately with real-world projects. From the smallest experimental venues to the largest clubs and concert halls, our programme allows you to take advantage of every opportunity and discover what you want to contribute to the world.

Is this programme for you?

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

• Establishing your own distinct creative approach to electronic music production, developing new and innovative techniques for yourself.
• Developing your artistic persona and portfolio.
• Transforming yourself from a DJ into a producer.
• Recording, releasing and/or performing your own electronic music.
• Making your first step towards a career in the music industry and building upon entrepreneurial expertise.
• Programming and playing a variety of electronic instruments.
• Designing and creating your own sounds and effects.
• Honing your listening skills.
• 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:

The employment model in the music industry has transformed over the last 25 years. Roles within the music industry are diverse and varied. We aim to provide you with an education that enables you to either be a change maker or to adapt and stay at the forefront of this change.

Potential career paths include specialising in audio production, remix engineering or contemporary music performance. You could create audio for events and brands, or within the advertising industry.

Working with software to produce sample packs for labels and other artists or sound installation will also certainly be a route available to you. You could produce sound and music for games, film or interdisciplinary arts projects. Or you may choose to investigate what’s under the hood and specialise in programming or the construction of instruments – both hardware and software. You may opt to explore the business side of the music industry, either founding your own or working with existing record labels, publishers or artist management companies.