Music Industry,Business,Technolgy,Engineering

kmccrindle
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:00:07 +0000

Lauravee, just to shortcut your search a little, the Jacobs School of music at University of Indiana Bloomfield has a Recording Arts BSC degree that draws equally from contemporary and classical musicians and is very technically focused. Admission is by portfolio, not audition. Check it out early and visit the program as admission is competitive.

The University of Michigan also has a higher level engineering BSC program (eg. Bose recruits) that is accessible to a very small number of students each year (four) via the Performing Arts Technology Curriculum D. We have seen kids with a 35 ACT, 4.0 and strong regional performance skill/composition skill rejected from this program, so it’s a bit of a crap shoot, just so you know. While you don’t have to perform classical music, I do believe you have to create an electronic instrumentation of a Bach counterpoint as part of the required portfolio, plus submit multi track recording samples and examples of your own playing as well. If Bach is a problem, the program might be a reach. Students have to take C+ programming and electrical engineering classes, plus a boatload of calc etc.

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
K