Music students visited the Creative Technology faculty at Bournemouth University this week and had hands on experience with the excellent studio facilities whilst learning about the Music Pathways available in Higher Education.   

Almost everything we do in our daily lives employs creative technology in one way or another, whether this is film and music or commerce and interactive entertainment. Our increasing dependence on technology means there is a growing need for skilled and highly versatile creative technologists who are able to identify, design, produce, compose, and engineer sonic soundscapes that stretch the potential of software and programming.   

We learned that the Music courses on offer at the university open up opportunities to work at the cutting edge of associated industries, and where you can acquire the key analytic and creative skills needed to embrace new and as yet unimagined technologies and their uses. Music technology is constantly evolving, allowing developers to create innovative audio productions. The lecturers and those on the courses on offer have opportunities to work closely with those in the Music industry ensuring that the courses teach the skills needed after graduation.   

We discovered that Music graduates go on to a diverse range of careers from composers of film/media music, studio recording engineers, technicians, producers, live sound engineers, acoustic engineers, designer of acoustic spaces and venues, design and construction of sound systems for venues, computer programmers for music applications, composers of music for gaming/ringtones, MIDI programmer, design and manufacture of electronic instruments/devices, electrical engineers developing microphones and speakers, sound engineers in media/television/radio to name just a few.