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| LAST CHANCE TO AUDITION FOR FALL SEMESTER! |
| The last set of audition dates have been set for JULY 22nd, 23rd, and 24th to major in Commercial Music Performance on Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, Piano, or Vocals. Auditions will be held at the Performing Arts Center on campus. This is the last opportunity to audition for the Fall semester so call now at 409.984.6520 to schedule your audition. For information regarding what you need to prepare, please click on "Audition Information for Performance Majors" at the bottom of the page. |
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| New Degree in Commercial Music Performance! |
| Lamar State College-Port Arthur Commercial Music Department is proud to announce the offering of an Associate of Arts Degree in COMMERCIAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE with a specialty in SESSION MUSIC, beginning in the Fall of 2008. This opportunity is open to musicians and vocalists. If you have pretty good chops on guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, or you sing up a storm, this may be the opportunity you've been seeking! Call 409.984.6520 for more information.(Admission by audition only - See "audition information for performance majors" link at bottom of home page) |
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| LSC-PA Studio Facilities Offer Multiple Platforms |
| It is primary to our mission here at LSC-PA that our students graduate into the real world with hands-on knowledge of a wide variety of recording platforms. Studio A is oufitted with a Mac-based Pro Tools and Nuendo control. Studio B offers PC-based Pro Tools and Cubase 4. Studio C avails our students to 10 IMac workstations with Pro Tools LE. Finally, Analog has joined the family of LSC-PA Recording Studio platforms with the addition of a MCI-JH24 Analog 24 Track Tape Recorder, a MCI-Autolocator III, and a Peavy AMR 1600 Audio Console. Students now have the opportunity to learn how to record by tape, and digitally via Pro Tools (both Mac and PC), Nuendo, and Cubase 4. |
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| Aaron Horne Joins Commercial Music Faculty |
| We are proud to announce the addition of Aaron Horne to our full-time Commercial Music faculty! Aaron comes to us with a long list of credits as an Audio Engineer, Editor, Sound Designer, and Film Composer. We are thrilled to have Aaron on board! |
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FACILITIES
Studios A and B
 Studio A at Lamar State College - Port Arthur Recording Studios includes a control room windowed into small and large recording studios, complete with separate editing and isolation booths. The control room is home to two of the most widely used recording and production programs in the music industry today. Pro Tools HD 1 system running Version 7.1 cs6 onboard a Macintosh quad core G5 computer provides the core studio software for recording, editing, and mixing. With capabilities for recording up to 24 different sources at once with the massive amounts of processing from the 4 computer processors and HD Accel card, this system handles any full recording project. It is also stocked  with some of the finer audio processing plug-ins, ranging from equalization and compression to reverb and delay effects. At the forefront is the Control 24 control surface, which has revolutionized mixing inside the Pro Tools software environment as compared to the standard environment of five years ago. We no longer having to rely on moving faders and knobs inside the program with a keyboard and mouse as a result of this control surface technology.
The second program in Studio A is a custom designed Windows PC running Nuendo Media production software. This is a dual processor system used for  composing music in the digital world by use of a coding system called Midi and use of software instruments that are pre-loaded into the system. With this type of horsepower and the power of Midi, a musician with engineering skills can easily compose an entire symphony on this single machine, choosing from thousands of actual sampled sounds from the world’s best musicians. In addition, the Nuendo system performs mixing and audio functions, even though its concentration is mainly focused on composition and creation.
Studio B, the newest addition to the LSC-PA recording suite, includes a control area powered by a PC- based system running Cubase 4 and a recording booth. This newest member of our family exposes and trains students to be ready to function in the real-world circumstance of encountering a PC-based studio environment. And to top it off, Studios A and Studio B have connectivity via permanently installed, wall mounted patch boards.
With processing from Manley and Universal Audio and Pre-Amps from Avalon, Universal Audio and Digidesign, the Lamar State College - Port Arthur Recording Studios have a vast selection from which to record signal and playback in the cleanest and purest way possible.
The LSC-PA Performing Arts Center
Commercial Music and Academic Music programs are housed in the new six million dollar Lamar State College-Port Arthur Performing Arts Center on the west side of the campus. This facility includes a theater wing which features a beautiful 400-seat theater will full-proscenium stage, fly gallery, scene shop, black box theater, faculty offices, (and last, but not least. our brand new Yamaha C7 Grand Piano which lives in its piano garage offstage right!)
This incredible facility also includes a visual arts area, liberal arts classrooms, and…
…our music wing where you will find…
- Lamar State College - Port Arthur Recording Studios
- Large and small rehearsal rooms
- Practice rooms
- Music classrooms, including a surround-sound lecture hall
- Piano lab equipped with 16 weight-action, 88-key, Roland KF7 pianos, and teacher control board
- Midi lab with 28 keyboard stations equipped, and finally…
- Music faculty offices.
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Performing Arts Center on the west side of the campus. This facility includes a theater wing which features a beautiful 400-seat theater will full-proscenium stage, fly gallery, scene shop, black box theater, faculty offices, (and last, but not least. our brand new Yamaha C7 Grand Piano which lives in its piano garage offstage right!)