Audio and Music Engineering

The synthesizers Rick Carl ’19, ’20 (MS) created for Moog Music Inc. are part of a new cutting-edge lab at URochester.

The University of Rochester debuts the first North American festival dedicated to the art and science of film music.

Rochester seniors and master’s students provide businesses and nonprofits solutions to real-world problems.

Daniel Fine ’19 and Ben Schmitz ’19 create digital plug-ins that add unique effects to musical tracks, delighting amateur hobbyists and award-winning producers.

Grace Stensland ’23, a sound designer and sound effects editor for animated films and TV, delights in odd noises.

University campuses look and feel different this fall, but as we continue to social distance and limit the capacity of large spaces, Rochester musicians have found ways to stay connected with their audiences.

During a recent master class, four-time Grammy Winner and Skywalker Sound director Leslie Ann Jones was impressed to find that nearly half of the University of Rochester students gathered were women.

The University’s $3 million investment in a new state-of-the-art recording studio, control room, mixing rooms, and sound design lab is a major milestone for Rochester’s now six-year-old audio and music engineering program.

Combining her life-long love for music with her interest in technology led Sanaa Finley ’23 to feel “right at home” at Rochester.

Warble. Wow. Flutter. A team of audio and music engineering graduates is bring back these irregular, low-fi sounds from four-track cassette recordings of the 1980s and ’90s with a digital plug-in.