MA Music (Production) at Kingston University

f thinking through making. You'll explore a wide range of approaches to contemporary production, from studio-based recording and creative mixing to digital workflows, spatial audio, and sound design. Alongside composition students, you'll develop and shape sonic material before advancing into specialist study where you can refine your production aesthetics and technical fluency.

Faculty: Kingston School of Art  |  Duration: 1 year full time / 2 years including professional placement / 2 years part time  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time (optional professional placement year)  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Kingston upon Thames, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

You will learn alongside other MA Music pathways in three core modules (120 credits) integrating practical and theoretical learning through project-based, interdisciplinary approaches rooted in arts school pedagogy. You'll also develop an understanding and critical awareness of contemporary issues, debates, and practices informed by the discipline. Modules: Advanced Studies in Production, Leadership and Collaboration in Creative Arts Practice, Major Project, Researching Music, Sound Materials. Optional placement year: Professional Placement School of Arts.

Career pathways

This pathway will equip you to work effectively in diverse and global professional music contexts, develop attributes for resilience and long-term employability, provide opportunities for creative entrepreneurship, and develop sustainable career models. As production technologies continue to reshape the creative industries, skilled producers are in demand across studio recording and mixing, music and audio post-production, sound design for film, games, and interactive media, live sound engineering, and freelance production.

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