Practice Research co-founded and co-directed by John Levack Drever, Contemporary Music Research Group, Asian Music Unit, Afghanistan Music Unit, Fringe and Underground Music Group, and the Centre for Music and Ethnographic Film.
The Sonic Scope Journal of Audiovisual Studies is based in the department.
The department curates the annual PureGold festival, which takes place during May and June in venues across South-East London including the Albany Theatre, Deptford. It continues with PureGold [REDUX], which showcases postgraduate students in September, with a final MMus show in November, with work from Creative Practice, Composition, Sonic Arts, Performance & Related Studies and Popular Music students.
The department houses two recording studios: Goldsmiths Music Studios, and the Stanley Glasser Electronic Music Studios, established in 1968 by the composer, instrument maker, and musicologist Hugh Davies.
NX Records, an independent record label, is a collaboration between Matthew Herbert's Accidental Records and the Department of Music.
==== Educational studies ====
The Department of Educational Studies teaches undergraduate, masters and doctoral courses, and is home to a large programme of initial teacher education (primary and secondary), based on partnership arrangements with over 1500 schools and colleges.
==== Additional academic programmes ====
Goldsmiths paired with Tungsten Network in 2015 to develop a research programme that explores advanced artificial intelligence techniques for Big Data and business practices. Known as Tungsten Centre for Intelligent Data Analytics, the programme is based in the company's London office.
=== Rankings ===
QS World University Rankings ranked Goldsmiths' media and communications offerings as second in the UK and eighth worldwide in 2017, and second and eleventh respectively in 2023.
=== Open access to research by Goldsmiths academics ===
Goldsmiths Research Online (GRO) is a repository of research publications and other research outputs conducted by academics at Goldsmiths. …
