Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

Summer Programs - Music Technology

Summer - High School Program

Program Dates: July 2 - July 14, 2012
Housing Dates: July 1 - July 15, 2012
Orientation Date: July 1, 2012
Program fees: $2500
Housing and Meal Plan fees: $1017 (includes ten meals and $25 declining food dollars per week)
Application Deadline April 1st, 2012 (online application here) including links to video audition materials and a letter of recommendation.

Summer Institute of Music Technology: July 2 – July 14, 2012

Hosted by New York University’s Music Technology program, the Summer Institute of Music Technology is a two-week workshop designed for high school students who wish to learn about and experience music technology. Through class lectures, labs and individualized studio time, students will learn the fundamentals of music technology. Topics include:

  • How to build your own studio
  • Signal representation and synthesis
  • MIDI and sequencing
  • Fundamentals of sound recording in analog and digital, single and multi-track
  • Editing, mixing and post-production

Students will use state-of-the-art equipment in NYU’s Music Technology studios, working with ProTools and Reason to develop their individualized projects.

The learning experience will be complemented by :

  • Tours of professional recording and post-production studios
  • Tour of Carnegie Hall and its recording facility
  • Guest speakers from the industry

Sponsors


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Application

If you would like to be considered for the workshop you must submit the following:

  • A general online summer application including links to two contrasting works that best represent the applicants skills, experience and interests in music technology.  Online materials should include explanation of applicants roll in producing works.
  • Application fee of $50 (non-refundable, payable directly at the end of the summer online application, or separately using the online payment form or the paper payment form with a check)
  • Recommendation letter: Recommenders should be chosen from people most familiar with your former or current studies, musical interests, or work.   Friends, family members, or guardians should not write the letters of recommendation. Examples of people who should write letter of recommendation include teachers of music and/or music technology related subjects, guidance counselors, work, or internship supervisors. Letters should be emailed to: simt.nyu.2010@gmail.com.  Always be sure to include the applicants contact information: name, phone number, mailing address, and e-mail address.

Mailed in application fees can be sent to:

Agnieszka Roginska, Associate Director
Music Technology Program
Music and Performing Arts Professions
35 West Fourth Street, Suite 777
New York, NY 10012

Housing/Meals

All participants will be housed in unadorned dormitory bedrooms in multi-bedroom suites. Each suite typically has two or three bedrooms. Each bedroom has two or three beds and is furnished with a bed, desk, dresser and closet/wardrobe for each guest. If a resident is assigned to a single bedroom, he or she will not be assigned a roommate in their bedroom. Each individual suite has a bathroom shared by all occupants of the suite. There are no kitchens in our facilities used for short-term housing. NYU Summer Housing does not provide in-room telephone, television, or internet connectivity to short-term guests.  Click here for more specific housing information

You will receive meal tickets for two meals daily in campus dining halls. Dining halls are closed on Saturdays and Sundays. You will be responsible for your own meals then, as well as any other mealsor snacks outside of the two meal tickets per weekday.

NYU Public Safety Services officers are on duty 24 hours a day.Specially assigned Resident Assistants (R.A.) monitor discipline,including enforcing a curfew for students in this program, and helpstudents as they adjust to living away from home.

Because our standards for achievement are high, we accept highlymotivated students who will enjoy the classes as well as the culturalactivities. It is, therefore, important to know that failure to complywith regulations will be grounds for immediate dismissal from theprogram. Parents and/or guardians will be contacted as soon as anyunsatisfactory behavior is recognized.

Students entering their junior and senior year of high school following the summer program are encouraged to apply.

Please direct all questions to:

Dr. Agnieszka Roginska
Telephone: 212.998.5141
E-mail: roginska@nyu.edu

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