{"id":42842,"date":"2019-08-20T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=42842"},"modified":"2019-08-26T07:50:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T11:50:34","slug":"an-internship-with-a-beat-new-partnership-to-place-students-at-blue-sprocket-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/an-internship-with-a-beat-new-partnership-to-place-students-at-blue-sprocket-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"An internship with a beat: New partnership to place students at Blue Sprocket Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eastern Mennonite University students wanting to learn about recording music can now apply to intern at a professional recording studio in Harrisonburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under a new agreement, Blue Sprocket Sound will reserve two internship positions each semester for EMU students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are committed to helping our music students meet all of their goals,\u201d said professor of music David Berry<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cThe technology and processes of recording are part of the art of music, and so this partnership with a professional studio is us taking our commitment to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Studio manager Lexington Bowler (left), EMU student and intern Joseph Harder and music professor David Berry in the Blue Sprocket Sound lobby.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The students will be involved in both administrative and sound engineering aspects of the studio\u2019s operations, from meeting with artists and giving tours to setting up equipment for sessions or making edits to the final product and other tasks, said Lexington Bowler<\/strong>, studio manager and a former intern at Blue Sprocket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I want to be involved in music, this is something that I should have some knowledge of, at the very least,\u201d said EMU senior and Blue Sprocket summer intern Joseph Harder<\/strong>. A drummer, he first became connected with the studio when his band Willow Run recorded their EP Indigo<\/a> there last year. \u201cPretty much anything that\u2019s happening [in the studio], I\u2019m welcome to sit in and figure out what\u2019s going on, which has been really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The internship arrangement is part of EMU\u2019s music program<\/a>, which has been long recognized for its choirs and orchestra but is also nimble enough to custom fit students\u2019 interests in a \u201cwhole range\u201d of music, from bluegrass to hip hop, Berry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of times at a music school there\u2019s not a place for students with eclectic tastes, and so their nontraditional tastes are just something they can try to fit in on the side,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause EMU\u2019s music program is small, we also have flexibility and the ability to tailor our program to the interests of people who might not fit into a more traditional program. We want you. We want you to come here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Showcasing the studio internship<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To showcase the studio internship option, EMU students will be invited to a studio tour hosted this fall by the new campus club The Composer Collective, which invites guest artists and collective members to talk about their creative processes and works. All EMU students are invited on the tour, which will highlight the studio\u2019s equipment and infrastructure, as well as describe the roles of people involved in a project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe music process is really about collaboration,\u201d Bowler said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the spring semester, the studio will also give an interactive presentation to Berry\u2019s class \u201cFolk-Rock to Hip-Hop: A History of American Popular Music.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe recording process is as much a part of music history as what kinds of songs people were writing,\u201d Berry said. \u201cIt\u2019s part of every kind of contemporary music and has changed the way people write songs. It has even played a role in determining accepted song lengths.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At once \u2018homey\u2019 and \u2018world class\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Studio manager Lexington Bowler (right) explains the inner workings of Blue Sprocket Sound’s control room to EMU student and intern Joseph Harder.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bowler said the EMU arrangement provides a unique \u2013 and \u201cawesome\u201d \u2013 opportunity for students in a \u201cworld class\u201d space. At once serious, quirky, industrial and comfortable, the studio boasts a great room, multiple isolation booths and mobile isolation panels. In the control room, artists can monitor sessions on tall chairs at a concrete-topped work table. Instruments and eclectic art decorate the walls; bicycles, too, hang on the lobby walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want it to feel homey,\u201d Bowler said. \u201cWe want people to kick their shoes off, but we also get it that people pay money to be here, and we want it to feel like a nice place.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to offering staffed sessions, it operates as a freelance studio, in which freelance engineers \u2013 and this has included former interns \u2013 can contract as project engineers and use the space and equipment for their own sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The studio offers its recording artists an \u201cincredible gear list,\u201d said Bowler. It includes one of approximately 20 Neve 9098i soundboards in the world (only two others are in commercial use in the United States, he said), a Baldwin grand piano, a Pearl pro reference drum kit, a Hammond B3 organ with an original Leslie cab, a Wurlitzer, various guitars and amplifiers and much more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMU\u2019s music program<\/a> prepares students for work in music education, performance, graduate school, and other related professions. It also connects music with community, cross-cultural experiences and service, and creates opportunities to perform, even for non-music majors. Scholarships are available for music majors<\/a> and non-majors who are interested in participating in music ensembles<\/a> at EMU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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