Based around sound recording, mixing and production sessions, and courses combining practical exercises and masterclasses, this course trains students to become producers of contemporary music. Students deepen their knowledge of a wide range of sound creation tools, cultivate their aesthetic sense of recorded repertoires, and acquire a solid command of demo and mixing.

Covering aesthetic, technical and methodological issues, this course provides training in sound recording in the fields of rock, variety and jazz music. Combining the roles of sound recordist and musician-arranger, students are able to carry out recording sessions of contemporary music in the studio or live, from preparation to mixing, in a wide variety of aesthetics.

The aim of the music history A course is to provide students with the essential factual knowledge of music history (chronology, main composers, knowledge of the different genres and main forms, works in the repertoire, etc.) and to raise awareness of the aesthetic and cultural contexts of the major periods in the history of Western music.