Music with Innovation
Music with innovation is a degree for musicians who also want to think about how creativity and technology intersect, how new musical forms emerge, and how the arts and sciences can inform each other in building the products, services, and practices of the future. Music has always been an innovative discipline, from the development of counterpoint and tonality to the invention of recording technology and electronic synthesis, and studying it alongside an explicit focus on innovation situates you within that tradition of creative and technical discovery.
At the University of Bristol, this four-year, full-time degree with a foundation year reflects a belief that the innovators of the twenty-first century will need to think across arts, science, engineering, humanities, and enterprise rather than within narrow silos. The music component allows you to develop as a performer, composer, analyst, or musicologist, engaging with the full range of the Western musical tradition and contemporary practice. The innovation strand develops your capacity to work across disciplines, to collaborate in teams with diverse skills, and to bring creative and entrepreneurial thinking to challenges that require new approaches.
The foundation year is available for students who need an additional preparatory year. The typical entry tariff of 168 points reflects Bristol's strong academic expectations.
Graduates of music with innovation work across the creative industries, technology sector, and public life in roles that may not have existed when they began their degrees. Many pursue careers as musicians, composers, or music educators. Others apply their combination of musical knowledge and innovation thinking in roles in music technology, streaming and digital media, cultural organisations, education technology, arts policy, and creative entrepreneurship.
The breadth of the degree's intellectual ambition produces graduates who are comfortable with complexity and genuinely capable of working at disciplinary boundaries.