Sunday 15 November 2009

Music Production @ NYU

From this website:

"Music Technology at NYU Steinhardt is a leading and internationally recognized program in music, sound and audio technology. Students prepare for successful careers in sound engineering, computer music, audio-visual production and post-production, mastering, scoring for film and multimedia, audio for games, software development, and multimedia production.

Students study with premier faculty in New York City, the heart of the nation's new media and music industries, and join an active community of scholars, artists and engineers exploring the cutting edge of technology and music.

State-of-the-art facilities include 11 fully equipped recording and computer music studios, listening rooms and research labs where over 40 Music Technology specialization courses are taught.

The Music Technology program offers an extensive internship program at major recording studios, new-media web-related companies, music-scoring houses and other music industry enterprises."

I think it's amazing that so many universities are offering full-on courses in music production. Achieving high quality sound takes time, practice, and experience, and programs like Steinhardt's help educate a new generation of producers.

That these programs are so widely received by students clearly demonstrates that the passion for great-sounding music has not died with the tinny iPod speaker. They can obviously appreciate something more, and this program proves that point exactly to those older naysayers who label this generation as one with no esteem for music quality.

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