BA (Hons) Commercial Modern Music - Music Production

If you are interested in creating music and sound and want to gain a degree-level qualification, and also fulfil your creative and commercial potential, then BA (Hons) Commercial Modern Music is the right choice to help turn your passion for music into a career.

This four-year programme aims to develop your technical approaches to music and sound production while at the same time progressing your career goals, using a deadline-driven project management approach.

At BIMM Dublin, we understand that the key component for music production is bringing a student’s technical knowledge and creativity to real-world, live and studio settings. To also learn the fundamentals required to collaborate with others, work with artists, and record other musicians’ sounds.

You’ll also further hone your skills by receiving tuition in modules such as Music & Listening Skills which aims to develop critical communication and listening skills for music producers and Industry Toolkit where you will develop an understanding of the skills and knowledge needed to operate as an entrepreneur within the modern music industry. You will collaborate with both the songwriting and instrumentalist streams and will also have the opportunity to upskill in your own performance skills, through a range of optional modules, if you so wish. The degree is both academically, technologically and musically challenging, providing the perfect balance between practical and technical skills and theory and analysis.

You’ll be part of a creative community of gifted writers, performers, critical thinkers and music industry professionals who you can collaborate and network with to help bring your talent to life. 

Through a range of core and optional modules including (but not limited to) Live Sound Engineering, Creative Mix Techniques, Creating Sample Libraries, Digital Performance Skills, Sound Design & Writing for Media, Practical Learning & Teaching in the Creative Arts, Electroacoustic Composition, Game Sound & Music, Immersive Audio Techniques, Audio Postproduction, Interactive Music Applications, you can tailor the degree to fit your own personal goals. 

Life at BIMM will stretch you as a creative, a musician and performer depending on your interests.  It will also inspire you as a fan, as you attend unique Masterclasses with some of the best producers, industry professionals and musicians in the world. You’ll also have the opportunity to audition for the BIMM releases and termly BIMM gigs.

Your course will culminate in either a Professional Project utilising academic research skills or Analytical Perspectives dissertation designed to investigate your chosen stream through key concepts and theories associated with cultural studies. This will give you a head start into the workplace and enhance an appreciation and understanding of your cultural and social environment.

So, what are you waiting for? To make your way as a musician, connect with us and we’ll connect you to a life in music.