Welcome to the Music Production course at Canterbury Christ Church University. We are looking forward to learning more about your music and supporting you as you develop your work during your time on the degree and beyond. This page gives you information about how to prepare in the months leading up to the start of your studies.
The Course Team
Academic Calendar: Semesters
View key dates for this Academic Calendar for 2025-26 including when teaching starts and finishes and when you break for holidays.
Your Welcome Week is an essential introduction to your course and the wider University, helping you to feel confident and prepared for your studies right from the very start.
It is important to check your Course Welcome Week for all the activities you are required to attend as part of your course induction. If any of your welcome activities are in groups, your course team will contact you before you arrive to let you know which group you will be in.
In addition, check the Student Events Hub for a range of fun activities. including the Students’ Union Welcome Fair, to help you make friends and live your best CCCU student life.
Your teaching timetable
UniTimetables provides an overview of all teaching activities for a course. If your course is taught in groups, it will display information for all groups, not just the group you will be assigned to.
Your individual student timetable will show you what modules and groups you are expected to attend via MyTimetable. This will be available for when your teaching starts.
Learn more about timetabling for new students including user guides and videos.
The staff and students on this degree are part of a wider community of creative practitioners that includes performers, composers, producers, film makers, game designers, photographers, and dancers; we hope you’ll take advantage of the opportunity to gain inspiration from this diverse group to help expand and enhance your own creative practice. You will work within the studios and labs in our new Creative Arts Building, which takes its name from the trailblazing electronic composer Daphne Oram, a founding member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop who taught at Canterbury Christ Church University in the 1980s. We hope your time on the course will give you the opportunity to discover new sounds and ideas, develop your technical skills, and form new creative relationships to help you realise your artistic and professional goals.
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A big part of the degree is about exposing you to new sounds, so we suggest you start to focus on listening to a wide range of music, both historical and contemporary, including music from styles with which you are less familiar.
We’d also encourage you to start to think about the technical and creative process behind the music and sound you hear, challenging yourself to ‘reverse engineer’ productions to understand how they are made.
Below are a few podcasts that we’d recommend:
Preparatory exercise (not assessed): Create a playlist (links to streams if possible) of 5 tracks/excerpts of music that represent your inspirations, influences, or interests in music right now. Include a sentence or two for each track explaining why you have included it on your list. In Welcome Week there will be a number of activities for you to get to know the academic team and your fellow students. During this week you’ll find out about your timetable and any groups that you might be in for practical classes and you’ll start to gain access to our materials on Blackboard, our online repository of learning materials for your modules. You will also be assigned a Personal Academic Tutor.
Your welcome and induction will be w/c 15 September 2025 - we look forward to meeting you then!
To prepare for your compulsory Computer Audio Production Essentials module, you may find it helpful to look at the following free resources :
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/logicpro/welcome/mac
https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
And in addition the following books are taken from the recommended reading list:
It is useful to note that the University Bookshop offers 10% discount on most titles in print and have some price-beating book bundles. They also price match Amazon on core texts recommended in the module handbooks you will receive when you start in September.
International students: don't miss out! Make sure you register for our international student success programme which provides practical advice on preparing to live and study in the UK.
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