The Tonmeister degree is made up of three areas of study:
- Technical understanding of audio - Practical experience of recording - Musical theory and practice.
The technical aspects of our course cover the engineering components that contribute to modern sound recording and reproduction. This includes acoustics, electroacoustics, electronics, computer audio systems, sound synthesis and signal processing.
The practical elements of your studies will provide you with tuition in recording techniques and critical listening. You'll also apply technical theory by recording a wide range of music.
The musical components of the course will develop your analytical skills and provide the opportunity for detailed study of creative disciplines such as performance and composition. Why choose this course?
- Our Music and Sound Recording degree is aimed at exceptional students who are primarily interested in engineering and music. - You'll gain a breadth of experience, numerous practical skills, and invaluable initiative and adaptability that will prepare you for a career in any area of the professional audio industry. - Our Tonmeister Surrey graduates have gone on to amazing careers: from equipment design to film composition from computer game programming to writing and producing hit songs from designing broadcast studios to mixing the broadcast sound from Glastonbury. - Music and Media facilities have recently gone through a £1.7m expansion and improvement upgrade, including custom-built performance and recording spaces with three studios, a multi-purpose concert/recital room, an immersive multi-channel speaker performance space, five edit rooms, 11 practice rooms, new synth lab and immersive mix studio. We offer careers information, advice and guidance to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to our alumni for three years after leaving the University.
The quality of teaching, professional studio facilities and equipment, and the success of our graduates, mean that the Tonmeister course is highly regarded in the industry. Consequently, as a graduate you will enjoy unrivalled career prospects.
Our course has produced a stream of highly successful graduates during its long history, including Oscar, Grammy and Mercury Prize winners.
The broad range of subjects covered by our course will prepare you for work in any area of the audio industry. This can vary from musical roles through practical audio engineering to development of new audio technologies.
Modality
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Price Remarks
Open registration Limited spots
Overall: AAA.
Required subjects: Mathematics, Music, and Physics. Music Technology A-level together with ABRSM Music Theory grade 5 is acceptable in place of Music A-level.
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We offer careers information, advice and guidance to all students whilst studying with us, which is extended to our alumni for three years after leaving the University.
The quality of teaching, professional studio facilities and equipment, and the success of our graduates, mean that the Tonmeister course is highly regarded in the industry. Consequently, as a graduate you will enjoy unrivalled career prospects.
Our course has produced a stream of highly successful graduates during its long history, including Oscar, Grammy and Mercury Prize winners.
The broad range of subjects covered by our course will prepare you for work in any area of the audio industry. This can vary from musical roles through practical audio engineering to development of new audio technologies.
SYLLABUS
Year 1 - BSc (Hons) with placement
Semester 1
- HARMONY 1: COMMON-PRACTICE HARMONY
Semester 2
- MUSIC PROJECT 1B - PATHWAYS IN MUSICIANSHIP B: PERFORMANCE AND COMPOSITION - INVESTIGATING POPULAR MUSIC: CASE STUDY - INVESTIGATING CLASSICAL MUSIC: CASE STUDY
Semester 1 & 2
- COMPUTER SYSTEMS - ACOUSTICS & PSYCHOACOUSTICS
Core
- AUDIO SIGNAL ANALYSIS - AUDIO ELECTRONICS 1 - AUDIO ENGINEERING - RECORDING TECHNIQUES AND EAR TRAINING
Year 2 - BSc (Hons) with placement
Semester 1
- COMPOSITION 2A - PERFORMANCE 2A - HARMONY 2: JAZZ AND POPULAR MUSIC FORMS - MUSIC PROJECT 2A - TOPIC STUDY 2A
Semester 2
- COMPOSITION 2B - PERFORMANCE 2B - MUSIC PROJECT 2B - TOPIC STUDY 2B
Semester 1 & 2
- ELECTROACOUSTICS - AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING & SYNTHESIS - PRODUCTION AND RECORDING TECHNIQUES - VIDEO: SOUND AND ENGINEERING - DIGITAL ELECTRONICS AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Optional
- TV STUDIO PRACTICE - ADVANCED VIDEO: SOUND AND ENGINEERING
Year 3 - BSc (Hons) with placement
Semester 1
- COMPOSITION 3A - PERFORMANCE 3A - MUSIC PROJECT 3A - TOPIC STUDY 3A
Semester 2
- COMPOSITION 3B - PERFORMANCE 3B - MUSIC PROJECT 3B - TOPIC STUDY 3B - MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM
Semester 1 & 2
- TECHNICAL PROJECT - PORTFOLIO OF RECORDINGS
Optional
- AUDIO PROGRAMMING - IMMERSIVE AUDIO TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES - ADVANCED VIDEO: SOUND AND ENGINEERING
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