The main benifit that I have experienced from undertaking a Sound Arts BA can be seen in the refining of my creative goals. Over the last three years I have been quietly ‘zeroing in’ on the artisan discipline of creating audio electronics for creative purposes, exposing electronics (in a unashamed fashion) to the user is a manner that is not sugarcoated nor perfected. Before my BA, I had no real idea of what I wanted to do wth my life, I recall having a vague ideal outcome of being a recording engineer for studios. Currently, I am operating as a recording engineer for a handful of small productions of records for bands who are signed; I think that I would have been doing this regardless of my education purely due to the people that are around me, the friends that I have and the scene that I surround myself with. There are plenty of talented musicians who are bound to be signed soon, and working on their recordings is a situational luxury that I have found myself in.

I do however think that there is comparatively more money to be made in electronics. With my electronics, I aspire to present to the user a device that compels them to garner an understanding of how the circuit works (in an imperfect, functional manner), so that they can exploit this understanding for their own creative gain. Doing away with the technical constraints of commercially produced synthesis units (buffered ins/outs, DC blocking between different modules, perfect amplifier design) results in a less predictable but more experimentally fruitful playing experience.

These (^^^) ideas about synthesis are the direct result of studying sound arts. My career aspirations may have taken a great deal longer to be discovered if I hadn’t studied this course, because I wouldn’t have had the free time to digest my ideas and realise that electronics is the path upon which I want to wander, compared to having to source that free time for myself and thus discover these desires on my own (i.e; source money on my own to enjoy free time).