Facilities

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Benildus Hall houses the teaching studios, practice rooms, and rehearsal halls for a vibrant creative community.

Contemporary Music Facilities

Benildus Hall

The music wing of Benildus Hall provides an inspiring home for a vibrant creative community, with teaching studios, practice rooms, and rehearsal halls and music technology facilities. Student access to most practice, studio, and rehearsal spaces is available 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week via a secure card-key system.

Recording Arts Studio

  • Digital recording with Pro Tools and Logic Studio
  • 24 tracks of analog recording on a vintage Sony APR-24 with Dolby SR
  • Custom Elite II analog mixing console
  • Yamaha digital consoles
  • Wide assortment of professional microphones
  • Main control room linked to two tracking rooms, video editing room, foley room, and isolation booths

Composition Studio

  • Mackie analog and Yamaha digital mixers
  • Outboard MIDI and processing gear
  • Doepfer voltage-controlled analog modular synthesizer
  • Software synthesis and composing environments including Max/MSP and Kyma
  • MIDI synthesizer modules and controllers
  • Yamaha MIDI acoustic upright piano
  • 5.1 surround-sound monitor system

Computer Music Lab

  • Macintosh workstations
  • Software packages and hardware for digital audio production, computer music composition, sound file processing, synthesis, sampling, scoring, and MIDI sequencing
  • Support for individual student research and study

World Music Studio

  • 150-year-old set of bronze gamelan instruments from the Cirebon region of West Java, Indonesia
  • Studio and rehearsal space for world music and small ensembles

Class Piano Lab

  • 12 stations
  • Networked Yamaha electronic piano teaching system

Atrium Sound Space

  • Multi-channel audio system for presentation of sound art installations
  • Located in the lobby of Benildus Hall

Classrooms

  • Floor-to-ceiling windows in the upstairs classrooms offering spectacular views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
  • Internet access
  • High-quality audio and projector systems

Practice rooms

  • Upright pianos
  • Acoustic or electronic drum kits

O'Shaughnessy Performance Space

This performance venue in Benildus Hall, which hosts concerts and readings, is nicknamed "The Garage" for its wall that slides up like a garage door, doubling the size. Features include:

  • 85-seat performance space
  • Indoor or outdoor seating and performances