Music Production
Music production is the craft and art of creating recorded sound: shaping performances, designing sonic textures, constructing arrangements and mixing audio into finished recordings that communicate something to a listener. It draws on technical skills in recording, mixing and mastering alongside deep musical understanding, and it requires both precision and creativity. Contemporary music production sits at the intersection of music, technology and culture, and it increasingly crosses the boundaries between genres, disciplines and media, feeding into film, games, advertising, theatre and live performance as well as the recording industry.
At Leeds Arts University you will study music production over three years of full-time study in a creative environment that places you within a wider community of artists, designers and makers. The programme positions music production within a cross-disciplinary creative context, recognising that the most innovative practitioners draw inspiration from across art, film, games and culture rather than working in isolation. You will develop technical proficiency in recording, production software and audio engineering alongside the musical and conceptual skills that give your work its distinctive voice.
The typical tariff of 120 reflects a programme designed to develop creative individuals who are technically capable and artistically ambitious.
Graduates work as music producers, sound engineers, audio engineers, music supervisors, post-production sound specialists, live sound engineers, studio managers, music technology educators and composers for film and games. Many develop portfolio careers that combine their own creative work with commercial and freelance projects, and the cross-disciplinary creative context of Leeds Arts University supports connections to adjacent fields. Some graduates go on to postgraduate study in music production, sound design or related areas of creative technology.
The skills developed through this programme, technical fluency combined with creative and cultural awareness, are consistently in demand across the music and media industries.