Music production and sound engineering
Immerse yourself in music and theatre, while gaining an insight into the entire production.
Music production and sound engineering
- Studio
- Music production
- Data as a musical tool
- Stage rigging
- Industry knowledge
- Tour and concerts
Travels:
- Stockholm
- London
- Tour in Norway
- Joint trip to Spain and Gibraltar
Create unforgettable moments!
This line has an age limit of 16!
Produce your own music? Or be able to contribute with the sound or light mixer to others performing their best? A lot of time in the school's studio or with the equipment for sound, light and stage gives you the opportunity!
Experience a year of unforgettable moments, either in the studio, on stage or at live concerts and performances! Immerse yourself in music production and sound engineering, and also get an insight into the entire production.
If you want to learn about sound, here is your chance! Whether you know something from before or have experience, play an instrument, make music on a computer or are interested in the process behind studio or live work, you will have the opportunity to learn more about working with sound in various contexts.
You can use your own equipment/software, but the school also has the equipment and space you need to record and produce your own and other people's music, and to work with sound, lighting and the stage for productions and performances.
The school has its own sound studio and room with workstations with Pro Tools as the main program. You will also have the opportunity to work in Ableton or FL Studio, or a program you have yourself.
In a live context, you get access to try out the full stage rig with PA, lights (both conventional and movable), rope system and playback of AV productions. An important part of the arrangement on the line is that you and your fellow students get plenty of time to try out things during the school year!
At times, we collaborate with the other creative lines at the school, Scenery, Theater, Music and Arts and Crafts. Then we can work with sound and light with people on stage, or produce music or sound in the school's studio which will often be used in a larger context. We also go on tour and study trips together.
We have contact with professionals who are professionals in sound, lighting and stage, and meet artists, studios and companies that work with live sound to learn more about the industry during the year.
This is the line for you who dream of doing something with all the music you have in your head. Get it out on various streaming services or from the stage in front of a cheering audience! Here you will gain extensive knowledge and skills in the field, as well as valuable insight into the industry.
Subject areas
Subject areas:
- Studio – theory and practice
- Sound/lights/rig for stage
- Introduction to the use of data as a music tool (e.g. Pro Tools, FL-studio)
- Songwriting - opportunity to focus on your own ideas
- Basic industry knowledge
- Production of small and large concerts and performances, one of them for touring
Common
Collaborative projects and joint subjects together with the other creative lines at school, where we try to look at our subjects with a more holistic view.
- Production subjects
- Performance, concerts, tour
Travel - Stockholm and London
Stockholm, autumn: Line trip to Stockholm together with the other creative lines at the school. Here we visit the professional environment, meet people who run activities in our fields, visit exhibitions, performances or educational institutions that can give us inspiration in our teaching.
In addition, this can be a great start to our school year, where we get to spend a lot of time together on the lines, get to know each other better and get shared inspiration and impulses for the rest of the school year.
London, spring: London offers over 150 theatres, and we will experience world-class musicals and theatre. Explore possibilities in music, sound and theatre, and consider the study options in this creative metropolis. Live concerts, iconic red buses, and much more await you. This can be an unforgettable memory from the folk high school year, with both inspiration and many good community memories!
Teachers on the line
Annette Lyngstad Skavhaug
Theater teacher
Annette is a teacher at the Theater line; Actor. She has previously both attended and been a scholarship holder at the school and on the line, and knows the everyday life of folk high schools well. Furthermore, she has a pedagogical education and is now studying at Nord University in addition to working at the school.
Erling Helland
Principal, teacher Music production and sound engineering and Music
I find that everyday life at folk college provides great opportunities for young people to grow as a person in many ways. I want to contribute to that!
Qualified general teacher (adjunct professor), emphasis on music and history. Further education in music technology, music production and personnel and management
email: rektor@bakketun.fhs.no
Equipment list
The school has most of the equipment you will need, but you are welcome to bring your own equipment that you would like to use throughout the school year.
You can borrow this equipment from the school
Studio
- Stations w/Mac (Pro Tools/Abelton)
- Studio w/Pro Tools, C24 control surface
- Microphones
- Instruments
Live
- PA (digital and analog mixer), microphones (wired/wireless)
- Lighting system w/conventional and moving light
- Stage and rope system, playback of AV on screen
Common
- Black box
- Stage rigging
- Sound studio at school
- Trucks and minibuses for tours
Schedule
In addition to the main subjects, you also have joint subjects, elective subjects and project subjects. The common subjects is worth its weight in gold for building community and preparing you for life after school. We offer many exciting electives, such as golf, horse riding, photography, the hunting test, the boat driving test and much more. IN project subject you get the opportunity to, among other things, take up subjects, or explore different career paths.
No two weeks are the same, but a typical week might look like this:
Shared every day: Good breakfast + morning meeting (a word for the day, today's news, marking birthdays and other important information).
- Monday: Room cleaning, Boarding subjects, Housing collection, lunch and line subjects
- Tuesday: Electives throughout the day
- Wednesday: Common subjects, lunch and line subjects
- Thursday: Main courses all day
- Friday: Line subjects. Boarding laundry the hour before dinner
- Saturday: Seminar/activity/trip, student evening, Saturday dinner with hot meal
Price
From NOK 138,780
Including
- Instruction
- All meals
- Shared room at the school
- Joint trip with the whole school to Spain and Gibraltar (incl. 3 meals per day)
- Bus trip to Stockholm and London (incl. 3 meals per day)
- Tour
- Industry visits and workshops
- Tours in the local area
- Songbook
- Accident insurance
- Free use of student kitchens and special rooms
- Internet
- Washing machine
The price includes a double room with a bathroom in the hallway.
Read more about our prices and room types here
Loans and Scholarships
For the 2024/2025 school year, you can be paid up to NOK 137,907 from the Lånekassen. 60 per cent of this sum is a loan, 40 per cent is a loan that can be converted into a scholarship when you are approved for your year at folkehøgskole.
Contact
Do you have questions about the bus or the school?
Erling Helland (subject teacher): rektor@bakketun.fhs.no
School administration: 74 04 91 00 / adm@bakketun.fhs.no
This is a wonderful school with very good people. Lydlinja has given me new challenges, and has taught me a lot about both the industry and not least about what actually happens behind a stage, during a record recording and with a music producer. A top year!
- Simen Flaten Svisdal, Sound and music production
News from the line
Get to know the scholarship recipients for next year
Meet Albertine and Victoria who will be scholarship holders (2nd year students) on the Scene Studio Tour.
- I needed a year without grade pressure, and at the same time to do something I think is fun
Ingeborg plays music on the Scene Studio Tour, and says that one of the best things about the line is being able to try new things within a safe framework.
Line trip to New York 2023
11 days in wonderful New York! We lived in central Manhattan, and got to experience several theatres, visits to music studios, museums and art exhibitions. We explored Times Square, Brooklyn, picnics in Central Park and much more!
This is how you live at Bakketun
Are you wondering what it's like to live at Folkehøgskole? At Bakketun we have three cozy boarding houses, which are again divided into smaller housing units.