Contemporary Music - Facilities
Benildus Hall
The music wing of Benildus Hall provides an inspiring home for a vibrant creative community, with floor-to-ceiling windows in the upstairs classrooms affording spectacular views of the Sangre de Christo Mountains to the East.
Classrooms and rehearsal spaces are wired for high-speed internet access, and student access to most practice, studio, and rehearsal spaces is available 8 AM to 10 PM seven days a week via a secure card-key system.
The CMP wing opened in the Fall 2005 and was built from the ground up to support music technology, recording arts, world music, and traditional studies in music theory, history, composition, and performance.
Recording Studio
- digital multitrack recording with ProTools
- 24 tracks of analog recording on a vintage Sony APR-24 with Dolby SR
- custom Elite II analog mixing console
- generous assortment of professional microphones
- main control room linked to two tracking rooms, four smaller control pods/isolation booths, and equipment room
Composition Studio
- analog and digital mixers, processors and recorders
- 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 Lab
- 12 Macintosh workstations
- software packages and hardware for digital audio production, CD-RW recording, computer music composition, sound file processing, synthesis, sampling, scoring, and MIDI sequencing
O'Shaughnessy Performance Space
- nexus of student, faculty, guest, and community performance and literary activities of the CMP and adjoining Creative Writing Program
- large hangar door that opens onto outdoor patio, causing O'Shaughnessy to be dubbed "The Garage" by CSF students
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
- Internet access
- high quality audio and projector systems
Practice rooms
- upright pianos
- acoustic or electronic drum kits
(800) 456-2673 or (505) 473-6011 * Fax: (505) 473-6127 * admissions@csf.edu
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