Electronic Music Production and Sound Design Berklee College of Music

Overview

Upon graduation at Berklee College of Music, you’ll have a portfolio of professional-quality sound designs and electronic music compositions to prepare you for a career in many areas of electronic music production, including sound design, digital audio editing, synthesist/producing, MIDI pre-production, multimedia development, performing, and more.

Upon completion of the Electronic Music Production and Sound Design major, you will be able to:

• Compose professional quality electronic music in a variety of current genres
• Develop a deep understanding of electronic instruments, mastering a variety of synthesizer programming paradigms, including subtractive, additive, FM, sampling, and granular, in order to create original sounds for electronic music compositions
• Analyze, identify, and creatively manipulate the properties of sound from a variety of sources, creating new and unique sound design assets
• Apply core studio technologies and techniques, including recording, editing, and mixing to electronic music and sound design projects
• Develop a unique voice as a composer and producer using a palette of original synthesized and processed sounds
• Create effective sound designs for visual productions and multimedia applications using a variety of sound processing techniques
• Create remixes of existing source material in a variety of genres
• Develop effective strategies for performing live electronic music
• Develop a portfolio of professional-quality sound designs and electronic music compositions to attain work as an artist, producer, remixer, or sound designer