Hi  and welcome to the MA Creative Music Production programme at ICMP! 

I’m Lia Mice, your programme leader, and I’m thrilled that you’ve accepted your place here. The ICMP team and I look forward to working with you, helping you become the producer you aspire to be, and building the foundations of your professional career in music.  

I’ve put together a list of resources for you to consider before joining us in September, from equipment lists to recommended reading. You can find it below. 

I look forward to meeting you, hearing your material and working with you this year.  

All the best,

Lia Mice
Programme Leader, MA Creative Music Production

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About your MA Creative Music Production Degree

The ICMP MA Creative Music Production postgraduate  programme provides an inspiring and creative space where you’ll explore different approaches to creative music production, develop your artistic identity, and investigate innovative approaches to idea generation and the art of mixing and mastering.  

By focusing on developing creative music production approaches, you’ll expand your practical, technical, and creative skills by critically analysing a range of producers and production styles while collaborating with your peers.  

By the time you graduate, you’ll know how to create, produce and launch market-ready original music. You’ll also have the industry-relevant artistic and technical skills required to work successfully and effectively in professional music production settings.

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Equipment Checklist

Essential​

  • Headphones 
  • Pencils, pens, notebooks 

Recommended Equipment 

  • A laptop – preferably a MacBook Pro 
  • DAW software (Pro Tools, Logic Pro, or Ableton)
  
  • A condenser microphone 
  • An audio interface 

Don’t forget, as an ICMP student you’ll have access to exclusive discounts from leading music manufacturers, so if you’re thinking of buying new gear (from computers to instruments), it’s worth waiting until you start with us. 

 

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Recommended Reading

Books

  • Moorefield, V. (2010) The producer as composer. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. 
  • Thompson, P. (2019) Creativity in the recording studio. London: Palgrave Macmillan.  
  • Hepworth-Sawyer, R. (2017) Mixing music. London: Routledge. 
  • Barrett, E. and Bolt, B. (2010) Practice as research: Approaches to creative arts enquiry. London: I. B. Tauris & Co.  
  • Hepworth-Sawyer, R., Hodgson, J., Paterson, J. and Toulson, R. (2014) Innovation in music. London: Routledge. 
  • Thompson, P. (2019) Creativity in the recording studio. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 
  • Rubin, R. (2023) The creative act: A way of being. New York: Penguin. 

We look forward to meeting you in September... not long now!