"With the music industry evolving fast and new initiatives and opportunities constantly presenting themselves, it has never been a more exciting time to get involved. Falmouth's Popular Music degree has a challenging outlook at its heart that will prepare the musician to enter the industry with both their musical abilities and their entrepreneurial spirit fully ready to engage with the artistic and commercial worlds they'll face." Rick Rogers, Creative Enterprise Fellow (Music), whose career has included managing The Damned and The Specials, masterminding the campaign for De La Soul's platinum selling 3 Feet High and Rising, launching the theatrical career of Lily Savage, and running the South West Recordings label
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3 years full-time
UCAS Code: W340 BA/PMus
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Falmouth's BA(Hons) Popular Music degree takes an innovative, imaginative and experimental approach to both the creative and vocational aspects of contemporary popular music. We combine music-making, academic study and enterprise - taking you into the professional world whilst developing your unique talent.
If you're an aspiring, motivated performer working in any contemporary popular music genre, who wants to develop your own creative identity within a well-connected and stimulating environment, this course is for you.
It's essential that you acquire the practical skills necessary to earn a living through music, as well as honing your performance, songwriting and musicianship skills. We'll help you to gain understanding of how the music business works and is changing - from publishing deals to marketing, distribution to web publishing, music law to production and sound engineering, internet radio stations to sound installations.
At the same time, you'll underpin your practical skills with a solid grasp of the historical, critical and theoretical debates around popular music, and develop the time/project management, communication and interpersonal skills essential to succeed in this exciting and challenging industry.
"The facilities and other musicians we had access to were incredible. The course helped me put together my own project and take it where I wanted to take it." Jonas Aaron, BA(Hons) Music graduate
By choosing to study for a degree in Popular Music at Falmouth you will:
Our BA(Hons) Popular Music degree enjoys a close relationship with the legendary Sawmills Studios, made famous by the likes of Oasis, The Stone Roses, Robert Plant and Muse - amongst many others. Plans for the future include unique studio training courses.
Falmouth's Professorial lecture series aims to produce an engaging and challenging public programme that stimulates the intellectual curiosity of our staff, students and alumni, our research collaborators, our industry partners, our local communities and other supporters. Recent lectures relevant to Music students include Robin Rimbaud (aka ‘Scanner')
How to make art from life (with the help of a few ghosts)
British sound artist who has received critical acclaim and won admiration from the likes of Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen. Scanner has worked with Bryan Ferry, Radiohead and Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet, Merce Cunningham and Random Dance companies, composers Michael Nyman and Luc Ferrari, and artists Mike Kelley, Derek Jarman, Carsten Nicolai and Douglas Gordon, and performed in many of the world's most prestigious spaces.
A video of Scanner's lecture can be viewed online hereOur new £15 million Performance Centre includes:
If you have any queries about the course please visit our HelpMe Forum
For further information about BA(Hons) Popular Music at University College Falmouth, please email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 255944.
Our graduates will be armed with the skills to work in a variety of contexts, including:
A minimum of 220 UCAS points, mainly from the A2 level (including at least Grade C in Music/Music Technology) or equivalent Level 3 qualifications.
For entry, you'll be asked to send a CD demo and/or scores of your best work to date before being invited for interview. Candidates without standard qualifications but with music industry experience are strongly encouraged to apply.
Please see our How to Apply page for more information.
For further information about BA(Hons) Popular Music at University College Falmouth, please email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 255944.
Selection days will commence in December.
Selection days will involve improvisation and working in small groups. Applicants will be expected to bring:
Our new music courses are built on an international track record of innovation and experimentation, and bring a vibrancy and holism to the subject that's all too rare in British higher education. Professor Geoff Smith, Deputy Rector, composer and performer
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