From: synchro1 ()
Date: Aug 17, 1999
Subject:
Re: any electronic music universities or institutes?
Back in the late 70s and early 80s, the Pioneer Valley in Western MA was a great place
for higher education and synthesis. The five colleges shared many facilities and
classes (Smith, UMass Amherst, Hampshire, Amherst, and Mt Holyoke) and they all had
interesting EM labs. Perhaps because Everett Hafner (owner EMSA, US distributor of EMS
and a Moog and ARP dealer) was a founding dean at Hampshire. Smith had (and I believe
still has) Ronald Perrera and an excellent electronic music lab, Hampshire had a large
ARP 2500, Umass had Michael William Gilbert (still there I believe) and some modular
Moogs, plus you had the entire private music community in Northampton (Elliot Sharp,
Marion Brown, Michael Gregory Jackson, etc.). Nobody seemed to care that I wasn't a
student at any of these places, I usually had no problem booking lab time after hours
and I was often allowed to give performances of pieces in student recitals.
of course, it could all be different now. But I always thought the ability to be
enrolled at any one of these and take classes and share equipment with the other 4 was
a strong selling point. Plus it was a great place to live for first leaving the nest.
> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> >
> > > this is my final year of high school and I was wondering if their were any
> > > college level music schools dealing specifically with electronic synthesis or
> > > electonic engineering. just any place that deals with electronic music,
> > > thats what im looking for to attend when i finish high school
> > > thanks
> > > austin
> >
> >
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