The innovative MA Performing Arts provides fantastic opportunities for you to explore your own specialism within performing arts in line with your personal career aspirations. It allows you to stand apart from others in your chosen field and lead the discussion in the performing arts sector.

Are you a performing arts practitioner – either a performer, choreographer, director, or entrepreneur – with innovative ideas and a desire to work together with students from different fields?

During your MA, we’ll help you turn your ideas into reality. We’ll introduce you to cutting-edge research and assist you with broadening your network within the industry.

This MA gives you the opportunity to work alongside and make connections with outstanding industry professionals, while developing your own style as a creative practitioner.

Studying the MA Performing Arts is the next step if you want to further develop yourself academically, creatively and professionally after your degree.

A Level Music Production explores how music is written and then shaped in the studio, covering a wide range of areas from the foundations of sequencing, recording and composing through to mixing music in a professional environment.

You will be introduced to sequencing using Logic Pro on Apple iMac digital audio workstations, producing your own multi-track recording using a high-quality analogue mixing desk in one of our outstanding studios.

Topics covered can include:

- Recording and production techniques for both corrective and creative purposes
- Principles of sound and audio technology
- The development of recording and production technology

Create. Collaborate. Innovate.
USW’s Music Producing degree is based at our purpose-built campus in the creative centre of Cardiff.

This exciting and innovative course is a highly practical programme, where you will identify, examine and refine your creative music production process. You’ll be provided with a fast-tracked learning experience through access to USW’s industry-standard studio facilities, extensive tutor expertise and unique collaborative learning environment.

Through masterclasses with industry professionals and real-world briefs, we’ll help you become experts in the latest audio production technology, manage your workflow and forge careers within the creative industries of music, film, television and game audio.

This course nurtures professional development and functions to build the relevant skillsets required for the next generation of music producers, beat makers and recording artists.