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Music Production

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Music Production

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Music Production TAC SFCM

Complete creative control. Craft the sounds you want from idea inception to finished product. In these courses you will learn to multitrack, record, overdub, edit, and mix music in a variety of styles using sophisticated digital audio systems. This program will give you the analytical and professional experience needed for a variety of music production-focused careers.

TAC students also get to produce their own concerts and recording sessions. Collaborating with classmates from across SFCM to create new musical projects. These music productions span every genre of music from electronic, pop, and experimental, to every other genre at SFCM, opera, jazz and orchestral.

Courses include Electronic Music Practice Performances, Advanced Mixing Workshop, and Advanced Music Production. These skills can be applied to career aspects across the board in music from production, to performance, to music editing.

There's something about this environment where most of the students are just getting started in their careers, so there's a blank page of how they're approaching music and the ideas, and I just find it really inspiring."

-Peter Scaturro, Sony Interactive Entertainment Director of Music

a student in studio A

Technology and Applied Composition

SFCM’s TAC program offers students a direct path to careers in film, television and media scoring, sound design, and audio engineering. More than 90% of alumni are employed in the field of their choice—one of the highest job placement rates anywhere.

TAC Soundboard

Studios

SFCM’s TAC studios are the best around. They feature the latest versions of all major digital audio workstations on the market, as well as top-of-the-line hardware to suit your every recording and mixing need.

Minors

Customize your degree with minors that deepen your musical interests or expand your skills across disciplines.

Academics

Explore music theory, history, humanities, and interdisciplinary coursework that broadens your perspective as both a musician and a scholar.

Ensembles

Perform in recitals, ensembles, orchestras, opera productions, chamber music, and more than 500 concerts each year.

The Bowes Center

Live, learn, rehearse, and connect in a residence designed to bring artists together in one creative community.

Life on Campus

Find community through student organizations, wellness resources, campus traditions, and life in the heart of San Francisco.