MMus Creative Practice

Program Overview

MMus Creative Practice

Overview

This flexible Masters is an inclusive, forward-thinking music degree, open to broad conceptions of composition and multi-disciplinary approaches to practice.

Why study MMus Creative Practice at Goldsmiths

• Our department offers specialist focuses in popular music composition and production, sonic arts and audiovisual cultures.
• This Masters gives you an opportunity to investigate and combine strategies for developing new creative work.
• You’ll devise a coherent yet bespoke programme of study from an extensive list of options, and have the opportunity to uniquely blend practices from contemporary songwriting, production, sound art, composition, ethnography and multi-media work.
• Modules on this masters support engagement with a variety of intellectual, creative, critical and technical skills that will inform your work and culminate in a substantial creative project.
• Depending on your module choices, you’ll have access to the Electronic Music Studios, which offers advanced facilities for electro-acoustic composition, multichannel work and live/interactive performance and the Goldsmiths Music Studios which offers an HD Pro-tools recording system and large format analogue desk.
• The programme is exceptionally useful for students preparing for further postgraduate practice research projects, or for those wishing to develop a distinctive portfolio of work for entry into the creative industries.
• You may be eligible for a scholarship or bursary to support your studies, such as our BME Music Scholar's Fee Waiver.

Length

• 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time

Entry requirements

• You should have (or expect to have) an undergraduate degree of at least 2:1 standard in Music or related subject.
• Your qualification should comprise a substantial relevant practical/creative element.
• You might also be considered if you can show you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

Fees

• Home - full-time: £11250
• Home - part-time: £5625
• International - full-time: £21000

Department

• Music

What you'll study

Compulsory modules

• MMus Project (60 credits)
• Expanding Your Practice (60 credits)

Optional modules

• Advanced Strategies in Creative Music Production (30 credits)
• Filmmaking and Music Research (30 credits)
• Improvisation (30 credits)
• Music Management and Curation (30 credits)
• Professional Practice in Music (30 credits)
• Mental Health and the Music Industry (30 credits)

Teaching style

• The programme is taught through a mixture of lectures and seminar sessions, tutorials, and where relevant, workshops.
• You’ll also be expected to undertake a significant amount of independent study.

Support for learning and wellbeing

• Support for learning and wellbeing is provided in a number of ways by the Department of Music and College support services, who work collaboratively to ensure you get the right help to reach your best potential both academically and personally.
• You will be allocated a Personal Tutor, who has overall responsibility for your individual progress and welfare.

Facilities

• As a Goldsmiths music student you will have access to:
  • NX Records
  • Goldsmiths Music Studios
  • The Electronic Music Studios
• You can also use a range of mac labs, rehearsal studios, commercial cinema spaces, and performance spaces.

Funding opportunities

• BME Music Scholar's Fee Waiver
• Sarah Caple Award

Additional costs

• In addition to your tuition fees, you'll be responsible for any additional costs associated with your course, such as buying stationery and paying for photocopying.
• There may also be specific additional costs associated with your programme.

Careers

• The programme is designed with careful consideration of the opportunities, challenges and intellectual demands presented by music-related careers in journalism, teaching, broadcasting, librarianship and arts administration.
• A high proportion of graduates have progressed to MPhil/PhD at either Goldsmiths or other prestigious universities in the UK or overseas.

Alumni

• Graduates specialising in composition and creative practice have achieved performances of their work at internationally established venues, events and festivals, as well as broadcasts on BBC Radio.
• A number have received prestigious prizes and honourable mentions for their work in competitions including the PRSF New Music Award, the International Competition de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges and the International Electroacoustic Competition Musica Viva.