If you’re the type who can never pay attention during lectures because you’re too busy tweaking compressors in Ableton Live on your laptop, you may be interested to know that there’s now a place you can go where your compressor-fiddling will be rewarded, and not just with a failing grade from a stern professor.
In fact, quite the opposite. As Stoney Roads reports, Queensland residents now have the opportunity to gain a tertiary qualification in electronic dance music. Yes, as of 2015, TAFE Queensland East Coast is giving students a chance to become certified David Guettas and Deadmau5′.
The TAFE is offering its first Diploma in Electronic Music Production and it really couldn’t have come at a better time, with EDM exploding around the world and producers consistently ranking high in international rich lists, like Calvin Harris, who has an estimated net worth of $46 million.
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“Our electronic music production diploma builds on the basics people have already established in their own time, and introduces deeper concepts of electronic composition, complex synthesis, in-the-box engineering and writing for specific cinematic and commercial situations,” says music teacher Ben Rynderman.
Indeed, if you’re someone who has no interest in being the next Steve Aoki, but simply likes composing music on a computer, the TAFE’s electronic music course can be the bridge between you and a career in making computer music, be it for a studio, advertising agency, television station, or in radio.
Units covered in the course include aural perception skills, composing music for film and electronic media, recording sound, performance, mixing recorded music, and music arrangement, as well as occupational health and safety procedures and copyright management.
