The International Master in Composition for Screen (InMICS) is a joint master’s degree programme dedicated to international students wishing to work as composers for audiovisual media. InMICS was created by a partnership of European and Canadian higher art education institutes and professional organisations in the field of audiovisual creation. This two-year programme gives advanced students the chance to hone their skills, share their talents and develop their projects within an international, professional environment. In the InMICS programme, students are trained to become proficient professionals, highly skilled, as well as creative, critically aware and innovative in their approach. InMICS wishes to give the students the best possible preparation for shaping tomorrow’s cultural industries.

InMICS students learn to master the whole process of music creation for audiovisual media; from composing and recording their own music, to expressing themselves in a meaningful and coherent way about different topics and concepts in the field of (audiovisual) art.

InMICS is a unique programme due to its international dimension. Thanks to the involvement of four different institutions of higher education in music and a close link to the professional sector, the programme brings a great diversity of aesthetics, cultures and teaching methods.

The educational programme takes two years and is pursued at two of the participating institutes. Each institute has its own speciality in a unique learning environment. This gives students the ideal opportunity to pursue their professional goals. Each institution offers a different teaching approach to composition for visual media, with a specific focus on the medium and professional perspectives:

2018-2024:

• Conservatorio GB Martini Bologna: Electroacoustic Composition for Screen
• KASK & Conservatory (HOGENT) in Ghent: Composition for Animation, Documentary and Video
• CNSMD de Lyon: Scoring for Screen
• Université De Montréal’s Faculty of Music: Composition for Video Games

From 2024 onward, InMICS offers a renewed curriculum for the 2024-2026 intake. The new master’s programme will propose three specialisations delivered by the European institutions involved in the InMICS consortium, from which applicants will have to choose two: one for the first year and one for the second:

• Conservatorio GB Martini Bologna: Electronic Composition for Media Arts
• KASK & Conservatory (HOGENT) in Ghent: Composition for Animation, Documentary and Video
• CNSMD de Lyon: Scoring for Screen

Furthermore, all students participate in collective digital learning courses, simultaneously accessible in the four countries. In the framework of the activities of the professional partners, students come together during film festivals to attend workshops on artistic and entrepreneurial topics and to collaborate with audiovisual arts students.

These partners from the professional field provide additional and complementary educational input, bringing depth and colour to the path our students undertake. They provide experts to teach, coach and/or evaluate the students. During the internship students are further confronted with professional actors and their working methods. In this regard they work with, learn from and contribute to the work of established composers and artists active in the audiovisual sector.

At the end of the two years, and upon validation of the study programme, students receive two master’s degrees.

Every two years, a new group of students starts the programme. For further information see the page ‘how to apply‘.