Focus on Learning Spaces: mitc Lab
contributed by Veronica Pejril: Coordinator, DePauw University Music Instructional Technology Center
DePauw’s mitc Lab is one of many new spaces for teaching and learning in the new Green Center for the Performing Arts, completed this summer. Located in GCPA 1151 within the Music Library, the lab features some of the most technically advanced workstations on campus, specially configured for music production, synthesis and notation. Because it is contained within the Music Library, the mitc Lab is open during the Music Library’s normal hours of operation.
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Reason, a virtual music studio environment |
Students busy at work in the lab |
Each workstation is configured with professional quality audio input/output, and quality headphones are available for checkout at the Music Library circulation desk for monitoring your work. Special keyboards with 3 octaves of velocity-sensitive, transposable keys make score-creation and music sequencing simple.
The layout of the mitc Lab may look simple, because the power of the lab’s workstations is in the installed software suite, which includes powerful tools for computer-based music making.
This fall, a variety of courses are taking advantage of the mitc Lab’s unique resources; however, when not being used for scheduled classes or presentations, the mitc Lab is open to the DePauw University community for general use. When scheduled classes and presentations are underway in the lab, there are two additional workstations with identical configurations available for student use on the lower level of the Music Library.
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mitc workstation keyboard |
View from the lab |
With an expansive glass façade to the north, the mitc Lab has a commanding view of campus and allows ambient light to fill the space. The lab’s unique architecture makes for a most productive place to study and work on computer based music projects. Students wishing to experiment with creative uses of digital audio are especially encouraged to investigate the lab’s resources, whether or not they are School of Music students.