Facilities
The Music Department utilizes several venues on campus for instructional and concert purposes. While the principal performing venue for the Department of Music is Hall Auditorium. The department's home is in two buildings, the newly renovated Presser Hall, which houses the performance and music education divisions, and the Center for Performing Arts which is host to the piano and academic divisions of the department, which contains 78 practice rooms and numerous fully equipped classrooms. Within the Center for Performing Arts are
- Sidney W. Souers Recital Hall
- William T. and Dorothy R. Amos Music Library
- Electronic Keyboard Center for class piano equipped with state-of-the-art Yamaha CP103 digital keyboards
The Center for the Performing Arts is also home to two electronic music studios.
The large studio serves as a classroom for Miami's innovative and popular Electronic Music class, an audio recording facility, and as a general haven of music technology. Equipped with a MIDI-interfaced Macintosh computer, keyboard, and a series of tone generators and signal processors, as well as multi-track recording devices, the studio is suitable for advanced work in the field of electronic music.
The second studio is provided as a lab for electronic music students to work on class assignments, as well as independent projects. This smaller space provides digital multi-track recording, analog MiniMoog synthesizer, MIDI keyboard with two tone generators, and effects processors.
The Music Recording Service, also located in Miami University's Center for Performing Arts, offers direct-to-CD live recording of concerts and recitals using professional equipment including digital-audio editing software and CD burning capabilities. Priced reasonably, it is available to Miami University students and faculty.
