Recording and Rehearsal Spaces

TIMARA (Technology in Music and the Related Arts) students have access to six soundproof studios for recording and producing electro-acoustic music, as well as a networked lab of G5 Macintosh computers - each with a synthesizer keyboard and a full array of music software. Production facilities include multi-track digital recording, historical analog synthesizers, and a wide variety of signal processing gear.

Fourteen practice rooms are equipped with organs of various designs, both mechanical action and electro-pneumatic. Of the mechanical action tracker organs, six are Flentrops, one is a Brombaugh, and two are Noacks. Six of the electro-pneumatic organs are Holtkamps. The organ center is located in Robertson Hall.

Ensemble practice and classroom facilities for the jazz studies department are located in the Hales Gymnasium complex. Many students use the adjacent Cat in the Cream Coffeehouse for solo and small ensemble jazz performances, which draw appreciative audiences. This facility will be replaced by the Phyllis Litoff Building, which is slated to open in the fall semester of 2009 and is adjacent to the Conservatory.