Electronic Music Production - BA (Hons)

dBs Institute

The BA (Hons) Electronic Music Production course is designed for producers, DJs, and sonic artists who want to develop a distinctive creative voice, explore cutting-edge tools, and thrive in the electronic music scene. You’ll gain the skills to create, perform, and release original work while developing a strong foundation in production, sound design, and performance technologies.You’ll explore synthesis, sampling, mixing, and live performance across a wide range of genres and creative approaches. From club-oriented tracks to experimental soundscapes, you’ll be supported to push boundaries, refine your technical fluency, and shape your artistic identity. Optional modules allow you to deepen or diversify your practice, with options such as immersive audio, post-production, composition, hardware production, and marketing and promotion. As part of a suite of interlinked music degrees, you’ll also have the opportunity to collaborate with musicians, songwriters, composers, and performers on real-world projects. This reflects how the industry works and helps you build the skills to navigate professional creative environments with confidence. Whether you’re building your brand as an artist-producer, developing a unique live set, or exploring the future of electronic performance, this course prepares you to innovate, connect, and succeed in an evolving music landscape.

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- Develop your creative identity as an electronic music artist, producer, or performer through modules on synthesis, sampling, sound design, and performance. You’ll explore the full spectrum of electronic music, honing your sound, refining your processes and exploring your creative boundaries.-

- Shape your learning experience with optional modules in immersive audio, hardware production, integrative performance technologies, post-production, marketing, and more. Whatever you want to focus on, you’ll find pathways that support you and your vision.-

- Collaborate with other producers, musicians, vocalists, composers, sound designers, live engineers, event managers and songwriters across ten interconnected music degrees, mirroring the real world and preparing you to work confidently within the music industry.

In your first year, you’ll build a strong foundation in electronic music production, sound design, and studio practice. You’ll explore essential tools and workflows for producing and mixing your electronic music, alongside modules in synthesis, DJing, and performance skills. This year is about building confidence, technical fluency, experimenting with ideas, and learning to bring your vision to life through sound.

In your second year, you’ll develop more advanced production and performance skills, with a strong emphasis on artistic identity and creative independence. You’ll choose from a range of optional modules to tailor your learning experience and work more independently, with increased emphasis on collaboration, creative research, and real-world application to help you prepare for your final year projects.