Te Rewa o Puanga
School of Music and Creative Media Production
Study
Te Rewa o Puanga School of Music and Creative Media Production responds to New Zealand’s growth and internationally recognised reputation for innovation and creativity in both music and media production.
Our practice-based degrees in commercial music and creative media production equip graduates with the technical skills and industry experience needed to excel in a creative career.
Research
School of Music and Creative Media Production researchers are world-class practitioners in their field. Whether you’re a student or research partner, you’ll benefit from the expertise of our internationally recognised researchers.
Our practice-led research sees new advances across the commercial music, film and TV, animation, enhanced realities, video game and special effect industries.
Facilities
Dubbing theatre
Students can access highly spec’d facilities, including a dubbing theatre equipped with an Avid S6 48ch digital console, with 7.1 Dynaudio Acoustics Block monitoring. There is also a 5.1 dubbing studio using a 16ch Avid Icon console.
Electronics technology laboratory
Students can access a dedicated Technology Lab, that has specialist equipment for hardware development, software development, electronics, prototyping and 3D printing.
Gear checkout
Our combined gear library has top-of-the-line equipment for students and researchers, including 5K cameras, lighting and audio kits, 360 cameras and VR/AR/MR kits.
Recording studios
Designed by Munro Acoustics (London) and Athfield Architects (WGTN), Massey University has recently constructed world-class recording facilities at the Wellington Campus. The flagship studio features 300m2 of live-rooms controlled by two of the world’s most sought-after desks; a 72ch Neve, and a 48ch SSL Duality analogue console. Both control rooms have an impressive selection of outboard and monitoring is with Dynaudio Acoustics soffit mounted speakers in 5.1.
Rehearsal rooms
Students can access five acoustically treated rehearsal rooms with backline and vocal PA systems suitable for modern music. The production rehearsal room, which also doubles as a live venue, is equipped with PA and full professional lighting rig.
VFX studio
Massey University’s Wellington campus houses cutting edge digital production and post-production tools. Students can use high-end digital cameras with the 300m2 green screen and lighting gear to create the perfect shot in post-production. Our range of camera equipment will help get your shot moving, or keep it perfectly still, or post-production artists can record motion-capture takes using our 24 camera Vicon motion capture array.
Meet our students
LUCI is the warped and electronic musical project of third year Massey practice student Luke Peterson.
Originally from Auckland, LUCI combines unusual and experimental processed sounds and genres – trap, hip-hop, folk with his unique soulful vocal style.
Luke Peterson (LUCI)
Bachelor of Commercial Music
Dylan briefly studied graphic design before opting to follow his true passions, moving to Wellington to study game design and animation.
Dylan was the lead game designer and programmer on the Major Project game 'Mara and Blu', a local multiplayer co-op puzzle platformer. He has gone on to work at local game studio PikPok as a Tester and most recently a Junior Game Designer.
Dylan Richardson
Bachelor of Creative Media Production
Having previously spent some years in the UK teaching and playing music Chris returned to New Zealand to follow his creative passion for film and character-based storytelling.
Chris’s major project is a series of original videos ‘Lance What Have You Done?’, which he wrote, developed, directed, and acted in. This series subsequently won him the prestigious Screen Production and Development Association (SPADA) South Pacific Pictures Big Pitch Award in 2017.
Chris Chalmers
Bachelor of Creative Media Production
Kate's major 3rd year project was the 3D animated short film ‘Tinker’, in which she helped lead a team through the entire pipeline of animation development.
She currently works at Pūkeko Pictures as a Junior Assistant Editor on the Thunderbirds show.
Kate Lambert
Bachelor of Creative Media Production
In 2017 Elleana was awarded the Commercial Music Scholarship Award which gave her the opportunity to intern with J&A Productions, the event managers behind the annual Vodafone Music Awards. This enabled her to shadow the organisers backstage, adding invaluable experience to her portfolio. This was the perfect opportunity to launch her career in the field of live events and curation.
Elleana Dumper
Bachelor of Commercial Music
Coming into the course, Tyrone had a passion for recording and producing music, having produced his own tracks via his laptop. In addition to developing his studio skills, he’s now building his own custom instruments and sound effects for his musical projects. He aspires to work with other artists, both producing their tracks, as well as developing new equipment that they can apply in exciting creative ways.
Tyrone Caveney
Bachelor of Commercial Music
Whether it’s along the rugged coastline or at the top of alpine ridges, Josiah’s film work is courageous, adventurous, and exploratory. He engages with natural landscapes and human interest to create stunning cinematic work. After graduation he was picked up by Wellington creative agency Flying Saucer to join their roster of top directors.
Josiah Watson
Bachelor of Creative Media Production
Staff and careers
Head of Te Rewa o Puanga School of Music and Creative Media Production
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ANDRE KTORI
Andre founded the London based music collective AudioRom and is a BAFTA, Milia d’Or and Millennium Product award winner. He has exhibited in international venues such as The Tate Britain, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Musée du Louvre.
College of Creative Arts
Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts at Massey University is a world-class art and design school based in Wellington, New Zealand.