sector skills analysis

Electronic music production

22/10/14 yr2

Simon Adair

PPD

Sector skills analysis

In this document I will give a rough outline if my collective skills within the audio engineering sector and collate there relevance to how I want to apply them in my chosen career path.

Within the music industry sector I plan on specialising in Audio/visual engineering and studio mixing. This would not be my first choice for doing something 'fun' within the industry however after observing trends within the employment sector and the music industry, a 'studio type job' or more specifically a more technical role in post production would give me far better employment opportunities than say, being a DJ/freelance artist.

Here's how my own relevant skill-set is looking so far;

My current skill-set:

Relevance to sector:

Proficiency in the use of Reason, Logic and Ableton. Lots of experience in recording and mixing (at least on an academic level). A reasonably proficient level of music theory lots of experience and knowledge of music writing and composition. Live DJ'ing

Very useful if I'm going to use a studio or compose music on my laptop very useful for post production, mixing and working with artists/live musicians etc again this can be applied to all aspects of production and engineering one way or the other composing music using a DAW or 'sequencing is the groundwork for using and understanding and any audio workstation. DJ'ing either with CDJ's, or Ableton controllers has given me some proficiency and experience in understanding live sound and hardware/software interfacing better. And feel more comfortable with devising interfaces for live music and audio mixing.

If I compare this to last years audit it is far more streamline for my future career path and also after reviewing myself I am growing in confidence in Audio engineering and the understanding of the studio environment, its hardware, software and its overall capabilities.