This programme is exciting and innovative, offering you the opportunity to mix with composers, sound designers, film-makers, technologists, ethnomusicologists, theorists, visual artists and curators. During your time with us, you become part of our specialist community, exchanging ideas and developing your own creative and intellectual interests, informed by expert academic staff within the School of Music and Fine Art. All our MA programmes are designed to provide knowledge and skills in practice-based research, as well as giving you experience of current research practices in various areas of critical and analytical thinking. The MA in Music Technology focuses on the use, development and implementation of technology within the wider musical context, exploring issues such as interactivity, audio programming, sound spatialisation and multimedia. This programme aims to: focus on the use, development and implementation of technology within the wider musical context; provide analysis and also take into account major musical developments over the past few decades; provide knowledge and skills in technological and/or practice-based research, in the form of advanced application of music technology ability and outlook; give you experience of current research practices in various areas of critical and analytical thinking surrounding music; develop your work through individual enquiry, as well as sharing and critiquing ideas through group seminars, designed to provide a forum for debate, as well as practical instruction; draw on staff interests and expertise in various areas of music technology and provide significant opportunity for collaborative and interdisciplinary work, taking into account other arts subjects at Medway and Canterbury; allow for the combined development of generic and subject-specific acumen: a module in Dissertation and Research Methods, leading to the development of an independent research proposal, will run in parallel with the Programming and Production Techniques modules. Thus you will develop your own advanced use of technology and software within the wider contemporary musical context, including recent histories, key concepts and aesthetics; let your technological output live in the real world. To this end, it will be expected that you demonstrate your work in the public domain, send work to postgraduate conferences and help with staging events at the University of Kent.