Rotary Music Performance Room and Digitization Lab

This state-of-the-art recording studio and digitization lab is capable of professional quality audio and visual recordings for research purposes. The performance room features a Steinway grand piano, a wooden floor suitable for dancing, and an isolation booth, as well as high-quality microphones and recording equipment. As a fully sound-proofed space, it is also suitable for the study of sound and movement. We also use the space for the dissemination of music- and dance-related research. The adjacent digitization lab is capable of recording performances, audio, video, photo and records digitization, and of playback. It is outfitted with sound equipment such as microphones, speakers, monitors, mixing boards, reel-to-reel machines, cassette decks, record players, as well as video cameras, stereo equipment and playback units in a variety of formats. It also houses computers, CD and DVD burners, older format audio and video machinery, audio and video editing software, encoding hardware and software, server storage and transcription hardware and software to facilitate musical analysis and transcription.