Music Production BA Welcome Pack
Welcome to BA Music Production 2024.
Our Music Production BA (Hons) is intended to prepare you for a growing, and ever-evolving industry which contributed £4.5 billion to the economy in 2018. The course is specifically designed to ready you for a range of potential avenues of music creation, for example working in the video game industry or in the world of live music or working as an educator. We aim to provide you with the broad range of transferrable skills required to be a self-producing Artist. You will develop a breadth of skills within the digital domain, the studio environment, and – perhaps most importantly – academically.
This course is accredited by Joint Audio Media Education Support (JAMES) – the industry standard for popular music, music production and media.
Your Programme Leader
Mark Thursby
Senior Lecturer in Music Production
mark.thursby@northampton.ac.uk
Welcome and Induction Sessions
This is your induction timetable with in-person sessions starting on Monday 16 September. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact induction organiser Mark Thursby: Mark.Thursby@northampton.ac.uk.
Preparation/Specialist Equipment
You’ll need various things whilst studying with us, these include:
- A sturdy portable hard drive, suggested 1TB storage.
- Decent headphones, please avoid AirPods and ‘Beats by Dre’.
- Pen and paper!
- You don’t need to buy a laptop to succeed on our course as we have 2 Mac suites, but you can obviously use your own laptop if you have one.
- We will hopefully run a Jazz Club for the more advanced musicians.
- We have extensive connections with the town’s studios and venues.
- You will have opportunities to collaborate with Games Design students, and students from other degrees.
- Join our UON Music Instagram.
- Join Mark Thursby’s YouTube channel.
- Join our UON Music TikTok.