BFA

Learning Goals

The BFA Music Technology program aims to build strong musical skills while promoting the mastery of a variety of music-related technologies in the context of pursuing creative work. Specifically, Music Technology students will have opportunities to:

Become trained artists able to work in any orchestral, ensemble or global music production, including knowing how to produce a concert, manage a stage, understand a sound board and run stage monitor and main audience sound

Attain strong music theory, ear training and rhythmic training, with a focus on 21st century technology

Learn how to run a music studio for recording production, with full knowledge of microphone techniques, software editors, audio effects, mixing and mastering

Acquire strong contextualization abilities for the history of electro-acoustic music

Learn how algorithms for traditional synthesis and audio affect production

Become proficient software engineers, with the ability to code for websites and utilize advanced object-oriented languages for artistic expression

Understand basic digital signal processing and its relationship to audio, including time and frequency domains and how these can be manipulated for artistic purposes

Also be able to use basic electronics and know how to design human computer interfaces for artistic practices

Develop project implementation and production capabilities, including planning, execution, time management and documentation skills

Admission Requirements

Academic Requirements

Learning Goals