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Meet Dom Parker, an impassioned Jazz bassist and current Abbey Road Institute student. Dom Parker is a triple threat – at least – producer, performer, and engineer. Dom is a regular face at our Melbourne campus. Almost daily, she is booking studio time to record her performances of her own compositions. We sat down with […]

Meet Abbey Road Institute Melbourne’s Jesse Tekin, guitarist of Melbourne five-piece pop-punk band A New Way Home. Influenced by New Found Glory, State Champs, Neck Deep and All Time Low, they are passionate about recreating the nostalgic and unifying elements of pop-punk and doing what they love – making music. Five pop-punk and skate kids […]

Broadcast as a career pathway Abbey Road Institute Melbourne 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 […]

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 […]

learn the pathway to a career in games and interactive media. In this Abbey Road Institute masterclass find out how to build and maintain a successful career in games and interactive media. There is no one right way to succeed in the entertainment industry, and often we have not even defined what we mean by […]