About this major

The Digital Music major is designed exclusively for creatives who want to write and produce music with computers and other electronic devices. It takes full advantage of the Conservatorium’s multifaceted art music perspectives and its unique take on the 21st-century music industry.

If you want to make music that reaches beyond traditional composition and instrumentation, explore the limitless potential of electronic music, or create soundtracks for video games and other forms of emerging media, this major is for you.

You’ll develop skills in music production, digital composition, sound manipulation, synthesis and spatialisation (including surround sound and ambisonics) and recording techniques to create original soundscapes. 

And you will have access to a wide variety of industry standard and specialist software (including Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Cubase, ProTools, etc), and learn how to use various state-of-the-art music technologies including Max MSP, the GRM, Izotope, and Native Instrument suite of plug-ins, modular synthesisers and much more.

A major requires the completion of 48 credit points as set out in the Learning and Teaching policy according to one of the following patterns of 6 credit point units: 

(a) 2 x 1000-level units, 2 x 2000-level units and 4 x 3000 level units; or 
(b) 2 x 1000-level units, 3 x 2000-level units and 3 x 3000 level units.

For any individual student’s enrolment a unit of study will only contribute towards one major except where otherwise approved by the faculty Units of study contributing towards one major may not contribute toward any other major completed except where otherwise approved by the faculty.