The MA in Creative Music Technology enables you to work at the frontiers of the creative application of technology in composition, music production, sound design, screen music, audio-visuals and music software. The course is informed and inspired by successful creative practitioners and researchers, and balances creativity with critical-theoretical approaches; there is also the option of a work placement. The principal purpose of the MA in Creative Music Technology is to develop critical, artistic and technical creativity, equipping students with the tools to undertake independent ‘research’ (broadly construed) as composers, technology developers, theoreticians and performers, as well as providing students with understanding of a range of important issues in their chosen area(s). The Masters equips students for further study (for instance a PhD in composition, music technology development or performance practice) or employment through the generation of subject specific knowledge and transferable skills central to the pursuit of careers related to these areas and a much broader field of potential careers. These include broadcasting, recording, production, sound design, soundtrack creation, software design, song writing and performance, as well as original audio and audiovisual composition, studio work, and teaching; freelance sound design for games and video, sound technician, community musician or audio broadcast assistant; broadcast engineer, theatre stage manager, radio producer and multimedia specialist. The MA in Creative Music Technology provides students with higher-level research, analytical, technical and study skills necessary for students intending to pursue further academic research. It also provides students with the opportunities to enhance their oral and written communication skills, as well as their team working and individual organisational capabilities. Assessment is diverse through the use of projects, essays, reflective diary, presentation, project outline. For full-time students, taught modules are completed by May, leaving the summer months for students to write their dissertation.