Digital Music (Hons) Solent University

Overview

Under the guidance of practising producers, composers, musicians and DJs you’ll study areas including music production/composition, audio engineering, live performance and entrepreneurship. 

The course caters for a wide variety of contemporary musical styles including various dance music genres, for example, drum & bass, house, hip-hop, grime, EDM and techno.

The Digital Music (Hons) program at Solent University also encourages you to widen your skill-set, and supports you to expand upon the knowledge and proficiencies necessary to succeed within the competitive world of commercial music and sound, bridging the gap between the aspiring music producer and professional digital artist. You will also have the opportunity to study skills in Foley artistry, music/sound design for film, games and other creative mediums.

Career

The music industry contributed £6.7 billion to the UK economy during 2022 in terms of gross value-added (GVA). Exports topped £4 billion, and employment stood at 210,000. (UK Music 2023). 

You could be working as an electronic music producer, or DJ either to release music across of multimedia channels, or performing on stage at music festivals or music venues across the globe. 

There are also a huge opportunities to work as a sound engineer for a vast variety of genres, to perfect the sound of artists in the studio. 

And with the UK computer games industry being the largest in Europe, generating £2bn in global sales each year, there is a growing role for music producers to create soundtracks and sound effects for games.