[Eateateat]

I'm looking at applying next year for a music technology course - I've been out of studies for a couple of years (having previously dropped out on the first year of a Digital Media Production course at Thames Valley University), but have since been studying Music Technology part time at Goldsmiths' College (3 hours a week), and have discovered 2 years out of education has given me an almost instatiable hunger for studying!

Unfortunately Goldsmiths' doesn't offer a full time Music Technology course (their closest offering "Music Computing" is more of a computer programming course), so I've had to look elsewhere.

Ideally I want a course that involves plenty of sound synthesis, processing, MIDI programming and composition, with a fair amount of theory (acoustics, psychoacoustics, etc). It doesn't have to be music technology exactly, so long as it involves all or most of those modules.

I'd like to stay in the south of England, but I'm open to anywhere in the UK if the course looks strong enough and the campus has a good reputation.

I'm not necessarily looking for the uni with the best reputation of course, as there are so many other factors to consider - I'm just gathering information at this stage, so if anyone has any experience (good or bad) or thoughts about any music technology courses in the UK, I'd love to hear it!

Cheers,
Jonathan

(note: I'm by no means taking the commitment to study for 3 years lightly of course, after my previous experience, but I figure I have nothing to lose by applying now, and then I have the rest of the year to truly decide if it's the right move for me)

[ogloom]

Hey, lets cut out the middleman. Why don't you just throw £30,000 into a well. It would save you time and let you move onto your next mickey-mouse degree.

[h5656bh52ptecsw]

(Original post by ogloom)
Hey, lets cut out the middleman. Why don't you just throw £30,000 into a well. It would save you time and let you move onto your next mickey-mouse degree.

Alternatively why don't you just **** off. Its nice to hear someone actually keen in learning rather than just 'getting a degree'. Music tech students who are keen to learn will be the producers of our generation, as will sound engineers for gigs and concerts, they are very important.

Congratulations on posting a message on a subject you probably know NOTHING about.

But I suppose that doesn't matter anyway as you probably hate music as well.

[ogloom]

(Original post by xands)
Alternatively why don't you just **** off. Its nice to hear someone actually keen in learning rather than just 'getting a degree'. Music tech students who are keen to learn will be the producers of our generation, as will sound engineers for gigs and concerts, they are very important.

Congratulations on posting a message on a subject you probably know NOTHING about.

But I suppose that doesn't matter anyway as you probably hate music as well.

i love music, but I know you don't need a flimsy £30,000 piece of paper to make it.

[jamz0770]

No but the OP is looking to learn more and become a better producer of the music. By the sound of it they will be pretty good at it too as they are genuinly interested in it.

to the OP; I have a friend who is applying to City for music tech cant say I know tooo much about it but it says the course contains;

* MIDI processing
* Sequencing
* sound synthesis and effects
* basic acoustics
* time and frequency domain processing
* artificial intelligence and music
* music information retrieval
* music analysis
* music data mining

It does appear to be computer science/music tech though so might not be for you :/

Good luck

[Eateateat]

Well, as I understand it a music technology degree is worth about 14p, maybe a little bit less, but that's not really my concern here.

You're right of course, I don't need a degree to make music, but I don't need a degree to make money either. I study because I want to learn, not for any other reason.

Of course you might well say "well teach yourself if you want to learn so much blah blah blah", but I know what's right for me. I need structure to support my learning.

Plus uni looks like a laugh

[BenPottsDrums]

I'm a simular situation! Look at Creative music tech, has composition modules aswell as what you would normally expect.

[Eateateat]

Update in case anybody's interested:

Been doing some in depth research, came up with this:

Queens University Belfast: Course structure looks excellent. Wide range of optional modules, masses of relevant stuff (for me ), great reputation, especially for music, lively campus, lots going on. Will be my first choice.

Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts: Course looks pretty good, good reputation etc. Campus doesn't really "wow" (imo) but worth a look. Will probably apply.

Keele: Beautiful area, nice course (need to get some more details though), lively campus etc. Will definitely apply.

Bath Spa: Idyllic place - could imagine wanting to live there anyway regardless of study, course looks okay, but not ideal - up and coming Uni (only officially a Uni since 2005 and already about half way up the Times league table so not bad going imo!). Will apply just in case I don't get into my other choices

University of Kent: Great reputation (among students and academics), really nice Music Tech course aswell, unfortunately it's on some sort of offsite campus nowhere near the main campus so that puts me off quite a bit. Will probably apply, but must visit asap.

Hope that's useful for someone else in the same situation as me all of those (except Bath Spa) are basically the best unis for "pure" music tech. There are some better ones, but those courses are more like Music Tech, or Music Tech. If that makes any sense

[jay dizz]

Hello,
The uni just off of Kent uni is called Canterbury Christchurch.
It's not that far from Kent uni campus, all be it itself is quite a small campus compared to Kent uni ( by the way, Kent uni campus - very big!) but its very easy to mix with Kent uni students, the nightclubs on campus and bars around Canterbury do make for a good night out.

To the guy regarding a music tech degree as worthless, i admire the courage it takes to be a self made producer, however you do not have a deeper understanding, physcoacoustics for one is a major factor in any type of sound manipulation.
however I am sure you will ignore this, so i can only say good luck making your sick beatzzzzz in your bedroom, and feel free to show me when you have a self produced album in the charts.