Creative Industries

The course introduces and analyses key issues concerning the development and successful execution of exhibitions and features unique presentations and online exhibition visits as well as presentations from guest speakers on current curatorial practices.

This course will appeal to you if you are looking for a career in major event management. It will equip you with skills to organise music events, press conferences, major sponsored events and much more.

Are you an emerging artist, start-up gallery owner or individual interested in working in visual art? Then this short course taught by internationally acclaimed curator Renee Pfister is the course for you.

Learn about various aspects of managing a record company such as budgets, royalties, cash-flow streams and international licensing from an industry professional. A successful record producer will feature as a guest speaker.

Studio recording engineers are essential to the contemporary music and media industries. This course introduces you to the key technologies and techniques of contemporary recording studios, equipping you with the skills to effectively navigate the studio environment and run successful recording sessions leveraging the knowledge, expertise, and renowned sound studios of the Department of Performing Arts at City St George’s.

The field of electronic music synthesis and sound design has exploded in recent years with high-quality software synthesis emulation software, and with expert guidance students can achieve a high technical level in a short time period. With online lectures using software instruments, you will gain an in-depth understanding of how to use discrete circuits as well as composite electronic instruments capably, confidently and above all creatively. You will learn how to apply the techniques, philosophies and approaches covered over the course to a modern practice of synthesis leveraging the knowledge, expertise, and renowned sound studios of the Department of Performing Arts at City St George’s.

This course will run for 10 weeks, one lesson per week, 6.30pm-8.30pm.