Welcome to the BA (Hons) Commercial Music Digital Showcase. The creative outputs presented below are derived predominantly from 3rd Year and 4th Year Honours projects, which have been selected to celebrate student success and creativity in the academic year 2025-26.
UWS Commercial Music Showreel // Class of 25-26
Below you can view some of the amazing work from our 3rd and 4th year students this year.
4th Year: Creative Research Project
Creative Research Project is a 60-credit module delivered across Trimesters 1 and 2 of 4th year/Honours year of BA (Hons) Commercial Music. The Creative Research Project provides students with the opportunity to develop a significant creative research practice output.
Projects fall into a range of disciplines including; performance, production, cultural entrepreneurship & participatory arts
Creative Research Project is also intended to contribute to students general portfolio of work, encourage them to operate out with the cultural “mainstream” and to impress upon future employers the value of artistic creativity as one of the most important key skills.
Here are some highlights of student work in from 2025-26
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Lily Connell -
INDICATORS : Exploring the Workings of Cultural Preferences as Cultural Capital in the Glasgow Alternative Music Scene.
Harley Walsh -
A Civilised Clown: An auto-ethnographic exploration of how alter egos shape the female artist's creative experience
Craig Campbell -
Elements: Mapping the constraints on expression, place and identity in UK popular music and societies through creative practice.
Melissa Sparks -
Aging Out Loud: An Ep exploring my life in music From Tween, Adolescence to Adulthood
Dorian MacAuley -
Blakewell's Tea: Exploring the creation of atmosphere in gothic film through music.
Kyle Thompson -
The Quiet Revival: How is Music Shaping Youth and Spiritual
Renewal in Contemporary Britain?
Hannah Graham-
DiverCITY- A musical exploration of the history and
psychogeographies of a changing Glasgow.
Connor McLelland -
Everything I’ve Ever Known: Concept EP exploring the link between sound, emotion and human experiences as an alternative medium
Jamie Wallace -
Cinematic EDM: Exploring the Fusion of Sound and Visual Storytelling in Artist Branding
Callum McGrath -
Sound System Influences: An Exploration of how Jamaican Dub Production Has Helped Shape the Modern UK Dance Music Landscape.
Dylan Rae -
Techno-Queer Identities: Construction or Reconstruction? How is SOPHIE’s Transhumanism Echoed Through the Hyperpop Vocal Production of 100 gecs’ Laura Les?
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Commercial Music 3rd Year: Music Enterprise 1 & 2
Level 9's core practical module runs across term 1 and 2. Music Enterprise requires students to research the existing music environment to identify a project opportunity which will be of career-enhancing significance. This should be a music enterprise project of commercial value and/or have community, social or cultural significance.
Students will then develop a music enterprise project proposal pertaining to their chosen sector, addressing creative content, timescale, budget, target audience, professional concerns, as well as setting qualitative and quantitative objectives.
In term 2, students must then develop and implement their Music Enterprise project for real, based on the research undertaken in the first half of the module.
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Sarah Helfridge -
SoundCause Events: a charity events promotions company which showcases local talent while raising money for important causes. Since its inception in January of this year, SoundCause Events has held two successful fundraising gigs, generating a total of £2,722.98 for the events’ respective charities
Darcy Brook -
TASTE: An Inclusive Single Release by Too Red.
John McLauchlan -
Visions: Visions, is a self-released, digital EP consisting of six instrumental tracks. Its purpose is to shine a light on the beautiful relationship between music and visual art.
Ines Cameroni -
Half Way Home: The Halfway Home project consisted of the release of an original music single accompanied by a music video exploring themes of cultural identity, migration and belonging between Scotland and Argentina.
Patrick Anderson -
Artist Release Campaign: This project constitutes an artist self-release, consisting of two single releases.
Morgan Lambie -
‘Tell Me What You Wanna Hear’. The goal was to evaluate social media strategies and promote the track with dance as its main selling point
Ben McGuinness -
BM Drums: a project focused on session drumming which was supplemented by online drumming content on social media.
Mark McLeary -
Otherworldly Music Creations: An online music portfolio.
Click on student work to follow thorugh to their websites
 Cerys Murray-Zmijewski- The Art of Critique A digital magazine showcasing women's contributions to the music scene in Glasgow. |  Callum Bain Scottish Charity Music Night Callum's project raised £2300 for The Kris Boyd Charity. |  Ryan Gatens - Meepcast: This project has involved creating, scripting, recording, editing, promoting and releasing a podcast involving the ban Meep |
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 Abigail Mcpherson - Muses Recordings Muses Recordings is a recording and mixing company that aims to provide high quality recordings based in the Ayrshire area. |  Nathan Campbell - Frog Eye Studios Frog Eye Studios is a recording, mixing and mastering company based in Ayr. Our primary objective is to bring in local artists from Ayrshire, Glasgow and surrounding areas to record their music or have them send us multitracks to get mixed for commercial release. |  Joshua Ennis - J-NS Music release Campaign A series of singles and music promotional content to raise artist profile. |
 Colin Hunter - AWOL AWOL (Arts Without Limits) is a community arts project supporting adults with additional needs, including learning disabilities, autism, mental health challenges, and addiction recovery. |  Jamal Paris - 8 Bit Breakdown 8-Bit Breakdown is a YouTube podcast series that focuses on video game music from a range of genres. |  Callum Curlender - Pick and Play Tutoring PickandPlay is for anyone that is interested in learning the guitar. Providing online guitar resources and tutorial content, such as play along videos and sheet music. |
 Rebecca Kelk - Departure Promotions This project involved the development of a live music promotion company, Departure Promotions. |  Cameron Todd - The Wee Uke Studio Ukulele lessons for primary school students. |