Music Technology

Learn how to shape sound into immersive audio experiences across music production, live sound, media, games, and more on this music technology degree.

Sound is everywhere. From music and live events to films, games, podcasts, and digital media, audio plays a vital role in how we experience the world.

On BSc Music Technology, you'll develop the creative and technical skills to work with sound across a range of industries. You'll explore music production, recording, live sound, audio post-production, sound design, and audio technologies, gaining an understanding of both the creative and technical sides of sound.

Through practical projects, studio-based learning, and collaborative work, you'll gain hands-on experience using the equipment and software professionals use every day. You'll create original audio content, solve real technical challenges, and build an impressive portfolio that reflects your interests and career ambitions.

As part of this music technology degree, you'll:
• Learn how sound behaves and how audio technologies are designed, controlled, and optimised



• Create audio for music, games, film, media, live events, and other creative applications



• Explore sound synthesis, audio processing, and emerging technologies shaping the future of audio



• Design, test, and evaluate professional audio and sound reproduction systems



• Build professional skills in project management, communication, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving



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Create, record, and experiment
You'll work in specialist recording studios, production suites, and advanced audio facilities, including our mastering and ambisonics room, post-production sound dubbing theatre, and the anechoic and reverb chambers. Alongside music production, you'll explore sound design, game audio, audio for film and media, live sound, acoustics, and emerging audio technologies.

Learn through real-world projects
From your first day studying a music technology course, you'll be creating recordings, designing sound, producing original work, and solving technical challenges through hands-on projects that reflect industry practice.

Gain real industry experience
You can choose to complete a placement year, where you'll gain valuable work experience, strengthen your portfolio, and develop professional contacts to help launch your career.

Collaborate with other creatives
Create with students across Leeds School of Arts, collaborating on projects that reflect how audio is used in real-world creative and digital production.

Artist in Residence programme
Work directly with professional musicians through our Artist in Residence programme, gaining insight into how artists create, produce, and develop their work in a professional setting. Previous artists have included Cherry Seraph, Chris T-T, Ian Prowse, I Monster, Tom Williams, and Utah Saints.

Study in a thriving music city
Leeds has one of the UK's most vibrant music scenes, packed with live venues, festivals, artists, and grassroots culture. It's the perfect place to develop your sound, build your network, and immerse yourself in a working music scene.

Why study the BSc Music Technology course at Leeds Beckett University?


• Develop a versatile set of skills across music production, recording, live sound, sound design, and audio technology



• Learn in specialist studios and professional audio facilities using industry-standard equipment



• Build an impressive portfolio through practical projects, creative collaboration, and an optional placement year

Curiosity needs thinkers, makers, and dreamers. It needs you!

Leeds Beckett believes that when unlike minds come together, incredible things happen. That’s why they don’t just teach; they collaborate, challenge and inspire.

Their courses are meticulously designed, combining practical experience through work placements with a vibrant location at the heart of one of the UK’s largest student communities. Boasting a top 10 UK ranking for both course quality and student life (Uni Compare 2026) and a prestigious five-star QS rating, LBU sets the standard for excellence.

The university prioritises student wellbeing and stands among just seven universities nationwide to earn the University Mental Health Charter Award - proof of their unwavering commitment to advancing mental health and wellbeing.

All of this is why 98% of Leeds Beckett students and graduates would recommend studying at the university to a friend (Uni Compare, 2026 reviews).