{"id":19262,"date":"2022-01-18T10:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/?p=19262"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:51:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T11:51:02","slug":"words-from-a-music-and-sound-production-technology-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2022\/01\/18\/words-from-a-music-and-sound-production-technology-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"Words from a Music and Sound Production Technology graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a guest blog written by Clara-Mae Turrall who graduated from BA (Hons) Music & Sound Production Technology<\/a> in 2021. Whilst studying, Clara was Head of Music and Head of Station sound at Nerve Radio and part of the Women’s Campaign Committee .<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bournemouth<\/a>I chose to study BA (Hons) Music and Sound Production Technology due to my passion for the subject. I had studied Music Technology at A-Level, but I did not come away with the grade I wanted. It had knocked my confidence completely, and I wondered how I would ever be able to complete the course I had applied for at Bournemouth University.<\/p>\n

My first and second year allowed me to relearn everything I was mistaught at school: composing, studio and production techniques, recording and acoustics, sound synthesis, even giving me a grounding in business. I was also given the opportunity to complete a placement year, which I completed at Vibration Design and Production. You can read a bit more about that here<\/a>. My course benefits from in-person learning \u2013 especially with the new Music Technology facilities<\/a> in the Poole Gateway Building. The course exposed me to so many areas of the industry that I hadn\u2019t even thought about exploring, and I even found an interest in areas of music I had not even heard of before.<\/p>\n

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Nerve Radio crew<\/p><\/div>\n

My final year was affected by the pandemic and so I chose to centre my dissertation on this. The final piece was a 20-minute electroacoustic composition which uses voice to explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic upon people in England. The piece appeared to be a huge success, not only academically with having achieved a grading of 90% on my dissertation, but also as a piece of music created as a meaningful response to the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Whilst at Bournemouth University, I was exposed to so many opportunities. I was a Student Representative every year of my course, a Women\u2019s Campaign Committee Member in my first year, a Peer-Assisted Learning Leader, worked for The Old Fire Station as a techie, wrote for Nerve Magazine, presented on Nerve Radio and was Head of Music and Head of Station Sound for Nerve Radio in my final year. Lastly, I was awarded a First-Class Degree and the Dean\u2019s Award for Best Final Year Student at my graduation last year. And, after 8 months of patiently waiting, I am now about to start my first graduate role with the BBC in Radio Production.<\/p>\n

If I could give any advice to prospective students, I would say get stuck into everything. Have fun of course, but also take up every opportunity you get!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a guest blog written by Clara-Mae Turrall who graduated from BA (Hons) Music & Sound Production Technology in 2021. Whilst studying, Clara was Head of Music and Head of Station sound at Nerve Radio and part of the Women’s Campaign Committee . I chose to study BA (Hons) Music and Sound Production Technology… Read more » about Words from a Music and Sound Production Technology graduate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":19263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[496,501,12,704,1638],"tags":[2813,2814,2812,2206],"class_list":["post-19262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ug-courses","category-media-film-tv-music-production","category-student-blogs","category-student-life","category-undergraduate","tag-composition","tag-music-and-sound-production-technology","tag-music-technology","tag-radio-production"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19262"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19304,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19262\/revisions\/19304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}