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Sound Studies Lab

The Sound Studies Slab (SLab) gives students access to cutting edge tools for composition, audio capture and recording, digital media and video editing, as well as audio mixing, mastering, and restoration. It consists of four industry grade Digital Audio Workstations and four modular Solid State Field Production Toolkits. Students will have access to professional field recording equipment by SoundDevices, Rode, Shure, Earthworks, Sennheisser, Sony, and AudioTechnica. Workstations located in the Loeb Library Listening room will house licenses of digital production software including Avid's ProTools and Sibelius, Apple's Final Cut Pro X and LogicPro, Adobe's Photoshop, Roxio's Toast, and Izotope's RX, Alloy 2, and Ozone 5 Mastering Suite.

NEWS: January 2013

Hauser Grant Funds New Sound Studies Lab

A new Sound Studies Lab, made possible by a Hauser Fund grant to the music department, will be up and running in time for the spring 2013 term. It includes three components:

-Four state-of-the-art field recording kits plus auxiliary studio/performance recording kits and stereo microphone for high resolution audio
-Four editing stations: two dedicated to composition (with keyboards), one with video, and one audio editing station capable of publishable-quality mastering
-ENG kits for broadcast or field use plus two boom mics and two wireless mics (for an interviewer and interviewee)
The Sound Studies Lab is for FAS research, composition, and scholarly projects—scientists working with sound, for example, or scholars working on acoustic ecology, historical documentation of a sound event, or recordings that need to be broken into sounds for composition. The first users will be Professor Alexander Rehding’s spring 2013 course in sound studies, “Frameworks of Listening.”
The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, a University-wide presidential initiative launched through a $40 million gift from Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser, funded 47 of the 250 proposed projects for 2012–2013. The grants aim to promote effective teaching and learning by funding educational activities that are innovative, evidence-based, and extendable across varied academic settings.