Music, Technology and Innovation at De MontFort University at Main

Our exciting new course explores musical creativity through digital technologies, extends your practical abilities in composition and production and enhances your critical and analytical insights.
Music, Technology and Innovation will help you take your practical skills to new levels of originality - exploring composition, sound installations, audiovisual work, electronic instrument building, hardware hacking, live coding and more. This is the course for you if your main aim is to gain new insights into the musicology and cultural impact of music technology.

Three core avenues of study make this an exciting and far-reaching course:

1. Creative skills: practical development of original ideas in the sonic arts, identifying, learning and mastering appropriate technologies; identifying and understanding the wider context in which you work; critical reflection on and communication of creative processes and outcomes; and the practical realisation and staging/performance of work.
2. Contextual knowledge: understand the themes and debates in the field of contemporary music — historical, theoretical, analytical and cultural understanding of innovations in music achieved through the application of technology — enabling you to apply this to a personal creative imperative or theoretical interest. 
3. Research skills: identify and understand the range of research methods and tools appropriate to sonic creativity; write up and present the results of research; and develop knowledge of styles of writing in the literature relating to contemporary music and music technology.

Optional modules drawn from the areas of performance, education, arts management and fine art give you the scope to apply and extend your creative skills and insights into new domains, and to maximise specific employment or research opportunities.

Reasons to study Music, Technology and Innovation at DMU:

• You will join the MTI2—Institute for Sonic Creativity: an internationally-renowned centre for all aspects of research into the new creative practices afforded by music technologies
• Focus your development on a specific field of creative practice, or extend yourself into new areas. You will be challenged to question and experiment within your area of practice and to interrogate critically each avenue of your studies
• The course reflects our firm belief that practice and theory are mutually supportive. If your study is practice driven, you will develop complementary critical and analytical skills, and if your aim is primarily to develop a musicological profile, the course will equip you with a sound practical knowledge
• The hands-on nature of the programme is well suited to the needs of teachers or arts professionals who want to upskill or broaden their musical horizons. You can focus the final creative project or dissertation on a relevant area of applied research
• Work with a superb team of creative, research active staff — several of whom have won major international awards — who will support and encourage your work in an active environment of constructive debate, and you will engage with top visiting artists and scholars from the UK and abroad
• Benefit from DMU’s music industry partnerships with local music venues (such as the Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre and the Curve Theatre) and many national and international organisations (such as the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, the ZKM, Philharmonia Orchestra)
• Learn in dedicated facilities, which include a 32-channel digital studio (matched by a 32-channel 120 seat performance studio), an audiovisual studio and professional recording and mastering facilities
• Stage your work in our on-campus performing and installation venues, or through our partner organisations in the city or beyond. The Dirty Electronics Ensemble have taken our work to many parts of the UK and Europe, including The Tate Britain and the Buckminster Fuller-inspired ‘Dome of Visions’ in Stockholm