Create original electronic music and sound works using a broad range of tools, techniques, and conceptual frameworks.
Music Creation and Technology
Music Creation and Technology
BM in Music Creation and Technology
Eastman’s Music Creation and Technology degree is designed for students whose musical practice is grounded in electronic and digital technologies. From electronic music creation and performance, sound design, and recording and editing to DJing and the design/development of software and hardware, students will blend hands-on experimentation with engagement in a variety of musical styles and practices. This unique degree prepares students to navigate—and shape—the ever-evolving technological and cultural landscape of music.
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The Music Creation and Technology degree invites students to explore how music is imagined, built, and experienced in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Students will create original electronic music and sound art using a wide range of tools and approaches—from digital audio workstations and synthesis platforms to Max/MSP, hardware controllers, and embedded systems.
At Eastman, technology is a means of expression. Students will apply skills in programming, electronics, and digital signal processing to realize artistic ideas and solve creative challenges. Work may take shape as live performance, recordings, installations, software, hardware, or web-based experiences—reflecting the many ways music moves through the world today.
While students will work with the latest tools and platforms, the program emphasizes a deeper goal: not just learning the tools but learning to transcend them. By developing adaptable, critically minded artists, the program prepares students to navigate—and shape—the ever-evolving technological and cultural landscape of music.
Graduates of the Music Creation and Technology program will be able to:
- Create original electronic music and sound works using a broad range of tools, techniques, and conceptual frameworks.
- Design, build, and perform with custom music technology systems, including interactive software, hardware controllers, and integrated performance environments.
- Develop fluency in contemporary music technologies, including digital audio workstations, synthesis platforms, Max/MSP, Max for Live, grooveboxes, DJ tools, and embedded systems.
- Apply technical skills in programming, electronics, and digital signal processing to realize expressive artistic goals and solve creative problems.
- Deploy music technology across diverse formats and platforms, including performance, recording, installation, software distribution, and web-based presentation.
- Analyze and interpret electronic music from multiple aesthetic, cultural, technical, and structural perspectives, situating their own creative practice within broader musical and social contexts.
- Engage critically with the history and current landscape of music technology, understanding how innovations have shaped and been shaped by musical practice, identity, and society.
- Collaborate and communicate effectively in creative, academic, and professional settings through presentations, critique, discussion, and documentation of artistic work.
- Participate in a community of practice, offering and receiving constructive critique, reflecting on personal growth, and contributing to an inclusive and supportive creative culture.
- Demonstrate adaptability, curiosity, and self-direction, preparing for lifelong engagement with evolving tools, methods, and ideas in music technology.
To develop technologically curious music students into professional musicians and music technologists, capable of adapting to and shaping the future of music and music technology at the highest level.
Graduates of the Music Creation and Technology program will be able to:
Design, build, and perform with custom music technology systems, including interactive software, hardware controllers, and integrated performance environments.
Develop fluency in contemporary music technologies, including digital audio workstations, synthesis platforms, Max/MSP, Max for Live, grooveboxes, DJ tools, and embedded systems.
Apply technical skills in programming, electronics, and digital signal processing to realize expressive artistic goals and solve creative problems.
Deploy music technology across diverse formats and platforms, including performance, recording, installation, software distribution, and web-based presentation.
Analyze and interpret electronic music from multiple aesthetic, cultural, technical, and structural perspectives, situating their own creative practice within broader musical and social contexts.
Engage critically with the history and current landscape of music technology, understanding how innovations have shaped and been shaped by musical practice, identity, and society.
Collaborate and communicate effectively in creative, academic, and professional settings through presentations, critique, discussion, and documentation of artistic work.
Participate in a community of practice, offering and receiving constructive critique, reflecting on personal growth, and contributing to an inclusive and supportive creative culture.
Demonstrate adaptability, curiosity, and self-direction, preparing for lifelong engagement with evolving tools, methods, and ideas in music technology.
To develop technologically curious music students into professional musicians and music technologists, capable of adapting to and shaping the future of music and music technology at the highest level.
Interested in more from Sound Arts & Engineering?
Explore BS in Audio and Music Engineering and BA in Audio Arts and Technology degrees through Hajim School of Engineering, or MM in Contemporary Media/Film Composition and BA in Music Creation & Technology degrees through Eastman.