Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website.

Bachelor
Electronic Music Performance

This study programme will not be available for the academic year 2024-2025. At this moment, we are investigating possibilities for a restart. Please keep an eye on this page for updates.

Currently, electronic musicians everywhere are searching for ways to include more live elements in their performance and Jazz musicians are exploring the possibilities of electronic music.
The EMP (Electronic Music Performance) programme prepares you for a successful career at the junction of those two directions.
The idea is to get the sound directly from your head into songs and, more importantly: on stage. Produce music at a professional level and then perform it, in new creative ways, with talented musicians. Making the most of all the possibilities music technology has to offer.

Meet our team

Meet your lecturers

Frederik Tings

Music Production / Live Sound & Effects / Electronic Music Performance / Producing your own music

Frederik Tings is a musician, producer & composer from Germany, currently

Read more

Paul Frick

EMP (guest teacher)

Paul Frick teaches the Electronic Music Performance (EMP) students in Extende

Read more

Alex Lesage

EMP (GUEST TEACHER)

Alex Lesage is an electronic musician from Brussels who primarily works with

Read more

Laurent Peckels

EMP (guest teacher)

Read more

STUDENT INTERVIEW - GEORGIEV ALEKSIEV

Electronic Music Performance 

I am Georgi Aleksiev and I am the first student in the EMP course. I was born in Bulgaria but grew up in Belgium. I am an artist and producer, I studied jazz music, guitar, piano, vocals and drums in a music academy in Brussels. I produce pop, rock, reggae, house and many other genres and a lot of my work is already on streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. Since my first year in the conservatory, I have been experimenting more and more with the jazz material that I study in class and apply it to my tracks, and also collaborating with different musicians in my year that also influence the songs with their ideas.

Curriculum

Curriculum

Major Electronic Music Performance

More info

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Main Subject and Components related to the Main Subject

25

17

37

42

Main Subject Electronic Music Performance (EMP)

25

17

37

42

Band Performing

10

10

10

10

Band

10

10

10

10

Composing & Arranging

6

Arranging Jazz

6

Recording & Producing

2

2

1

Studio Recording

1

Capturing and Shaping Sound

2

2

Tools in Creation

14

14

Aural Skills Jazz

6

6

Choir Jazz (General)

1

Theoretical Analysis Jazz

6

6

Rhythmic Solfège Jazz

1

Percussion & Pulse

2

Research & Development Skills

6

6

1

Critical Listening

2

2

History of Pop Music

1

1

1

Side Subject Piano Jazz

3

3

Health & Well-being

1

1

International Career Center

2

2

2

2

Your Art as a Business

2

2

2

2

Teaching & Outreach Programme

2

Basic Teaching Skills

1

Basic Teaching Skills Instrument Specific Methodology

1

Minor

9

6

Elective Modules

9

6

Before you apply

Admission
requirements

Video Requirements

Share your un-edited video recording links in the portfolio. Videos should be uploaded to your YouTube channel ( if you don’t have one, make one). Set your videos to ‘unlisted’ so only you and we can see them. IMPORTANT: DO NOT send the actual video(s): ONLY LINKS to the video(s)
 

  • Videos should have good audio quality, where we can hear your playing very well. You can make separate short videos or one longer one.
  • The candidate presents him/herself in English at the start of the video
  • The video is maximum 10 minutes long

 

Video content

  • 3 own productions in a DAW (originals) or show an electronically driven live performance

 

What you also need to know:

  • Knowing your way around in a DAW
  • Understanding (some) Ableton Live is a plus!

In case that your material is selected you will get an invitation for an online theory test and if necessary, an online meeting with the main subject teachers.