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Music is your passion. And you are certainly not alone; one in five people play or create music in Australia, while 40% nominate making music their number one passion. A passion that supports a vibrant industry, affecting every aspect of society and culture and making Australia part of the top 10 largest recording music markets […]

“Community is essential for me; it helped me through many periods in my life.” Being part of a community enables us to share, relate on a personal level and support the perpetual growth of ourselves, each other and our environment. But most importantly, it gives us a sense of belonging. For Ron Haryanto, community has […]

We are delighted to announce that Abbey Road Institute Australia is moving from Melbourne to Sydney to partner with the nation’s largest and most prestigious recording studio, Studios 301, in 2021. Our new home will unite two titans of the music industry, bringing the best of British specialist music production schooling – developed in the […]

Broadcast as a career pathway Abbey Road Institute is dedicated to creating industry opportunities, internships and experiences for its students. The changing audio industry constantly creates new career possibilities and we introduce our students to the cutting edge elements at play for the audio professional today. Our students ventured to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) […]

The days of music performance with only a guitar seems like it was a lifetime ago. Now, that artists like Ed Sheeran are selling out arenas all over the world without a band and using only a looper. Music technology hasn’t just given rise to the home music producer but has enabled the samples and […]

Sound Design for Video Games My name is David Weaver. I am one of the sound designers and lecturer in the Sound Design for Video Games Short Course provided by the Abbey Road Institute. When I work in games, my job is to create and implement sound and voice over that grounds a character in […]

Written by David Weaver Music and Audio in Video Games; Since the early days in the field, music has held an important place in video game audio. Both technical and creative restraints featured as strong influences in early video game audio, with the earliest game music tracks being relegated to a tiny chip on an […]

Through the months of September and November, Abbey Road Institute students were embedded in two of the premier events on Australia’s music industry calendar. Our first group of interns were placed with Specific Music’s ‘50 Songs in 5 Days’  in partnership with APRA AMCOS and Studios 301. 50 Songs in 5 Days is an intensive songwriting […]

abbey road institute melbourne to abbey road london As one of the highlights of the year, at the end of October we were delighted to be travelling to Abbey Road Studios in London with our graduating music production students from Melbourne. Our committed and hard-working graduates, with the support of their families, made the long […]

Recently we were lucky enough to be invited to the Avid Space Melbourne and visit our friend from Avid, Drew Parsons. Drew set up this space to host training sessions and showcasing Avid’s equipment. The Avid Space Melbourne currently has an Avid S6, set up in 7.1.2 monitoring configuration, an Avid S6L and two workstations […]