University of Surrey expands music and media studios with £2m investment
The University of Surrey is investing £2 million to expand its recording studios for music and media students.
The investment will fund a new studio complex, with facilities geared towards the university’s creative music technology and film production & broadcast engineering students.
As part of the works, the university’s existing ‘Studio 2’, used by its music and sound recording (tonmeister) students, will undergo an acoustic redesign alonf with the installation of a new Neve 88RS mixing console.
Professor Tony Myatt, Head of the Department of Music and Media, said: “The development of the Music and Media Studios represents the dawn of a new era for Music and Media at Surrey. This updates and expands our existing facilities with studios designed to the highest contemporary music and media production standards.”
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The new studio complex will feature:
- A fully sound-isolated sound-stage for TV and film production,
- A new Dolby Atmos® surround-sound production studio with Avid S6 and ATC audio monitoring,
- New edit rooms,
- New recording rooms,
- A live performance and digital music workshop room equipped with 3D spatial-audio playback.
The new computer-music facility, which includes a new OSX-based teaching lab with 30 workstations, a new audio electronics lab and a new home for the DMM Synth Lab (in collaboration with the Moog SoundLab UK), will be open to students 24/7.
The university is planning on linking the studios, edit rooms and recording rooms with a Dante digital audio network, which allow multichannel audio connections between rooms, along with video connections for recording and recording-control rooms.
Professor Myatt said: The new studios will greatly enrich the fantastic opportunities our students have in this area and help them to forge careers in the film and broadcast industries.
“The studios will also support our composers, sound designers, sound artists, musicians and music producers film-makers, TV producers, cinematographers and colour-graders to work alongside the future technical innovators and researchers who are set to drive forward the capabilities of new media technologies in the coming decades.
“We can’t wait to see how our students’ ambitions expand through their use of the new studio complex and the reputation for quality and professionalism of the Music and Media Studios will become a global symbol and exemplar of the quality, reputation and potential of all programmes at the University of Surrey.”
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