Personal statement

My passion for music production stems from age 5 when I attended Barnet Music school for singing, recorder and Steel pans lessons. My interest expanded into keyboards and led to me attending keyboard classes at Finchley Music School when I was 8. Although I enjoyed playing instruments I was always more fascinated with the working of the actual keyboard and the sounds it could produce rather than playing the keyboards. I became more interested in the production side of making my own music when my uncle handed me down his old Yamaha PSR-295 keyboard when I was about 9. Discovering I could make my own music opened up a whole new world for me. I am lucky enough to have access to a small basic home studio set up as my dad had a historical interest in music technology having studied the subject at college and encouraged me to use his equipment.

Having successfully completed the Music Performance and Production Arts - UAL Level 2 Diploma last year, I am currently studying for the Music Performance and Production - UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma. I chose this course as I wanted to gain a sound all-round grounding and knowledge of all aspects of music production in both the practical and academic sense. I was looking for a course that could give me practical exposure to different music genres and allow me to apply what I learnt to my academic progression. I feel this two-year diploma course has done this and firmly sealed my interest in studying music production at degree level. Fast forward a few years and I am excited to finally be able to apply to university to continue my passion at degree level. I have chosen to study this discipline as I feel it will allow me to both expand and enhance my academic capacity within a field I intend to make a career out it, which is why I am applying for this course.

I enjoy going to music concerts and write a blog as part of my diploma reviewing gigs. My exposure to varied musical genres is fairly wide and ranges from gospel to R and B to classical music.  I am a fairly Adaptable in terms of music and have found myself writing reviews for rock, metal and pop concerts as part of my course.  My main aim is to keep on growing musically and expanding my production knowledge with long term goals of working as a professional music producer eventually. I produce my own music now and work with a vast array of artists including poets, rappers and vocalists. I am keen to collaborate with as many different genres of artists / producers and performers as possible and believe exposure to new things brings new knowledge. I regularly collaborate with other students at college to produce shows.

I am a fan of travel and always enjoy seeking out local music when I travel, recent trips to St Marten and Amsterdam have exposed me to Zouk music which mixes influences from Caribbean soca and calypso music with a basic disco beat and synthesized rhythms.  Since studying Japanese GCSE at school, I am a huge fan of all things Japanese from their Culture, to Food and Animations and plan to visit Japan for the 2020 Olympics.  I have played American football competitively since I was 10 years old and still train with a London based team.  I enjoy meeting and making new friends and regularly meet up with friends I met through doing the national Citizens service a couple of years ago as well as friends from the performing Arts school Stomp I attended for 6 years at weekends.  As you can see music plays a huge part in my life and forms the basis of many positive friendships and experiences I have had, my plan is to continue this positive association through this course.