The practice-based Designing Audio Experiences: Art, Science and Production MA will train you to understand a range of relevant topics.
You will explore many aspects of sound, including its propagation and perception, soundscape composition and sonic anthropology and aesthetic principles. You will also work with different hardware and software systems, and different fundamental approaches to spatial sound, from channel-based composition and diffusion to advanced Ambisonics techniques.
This course gives you numerous opportunities for experiencing immersive sound. You will graduate with expert skills in spatial audio technologies, combined with the creative confidence to embrace the medium in original and exciting ways. You will graduate with a portfolio of work that hasn’t been heard before.
You will graduate an expert in audio experience design, fully equipped to pursue a successful career in immersive audio design or production or a profession requiring strong project management, problem-solving and communication skills.
Designing Audio Experiences: Art, Science and Production MA graduates will be equipped to pursue a range of careers, including broadcasting; immersive audio; installation; theatre; and virtual and mixed reality.
You will be trained in the fundamentals of audio experience for spatial sound, in pre-production, production and post-production, including independent research.
You will study at the top university in London, and #4 in the world, for Anthropology (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026).
You will study in a warm and welcoming department that is also one of the largest and broadest anthropology departments in the UK, which researches and teaches across five sub-sections, and which continually works to expand and reshape the discipline.