Recording Arts

It’s time to get back to Stanford’s amazing recording studio and make some recordings! This weeklong workshop, taught by two teachers with extensive experience teaching students and making successful recordings together in the very studio we’re teaching in, will be an incredible collaborative week of recording and learning on the beautiful Stanford campus at its world-renowned computer music center.

Each student will make a collaborative recording this week assisted by the teachers and fellow students. As we spend our days producing your recordings, teachers will instruct on things like microphone selection/polarity/placement, DAWs, running a recording a session, tracking, mixing, adding and understanding effects, organizing your files, comping multiple takes, and even composing and arranging — every part of the professional music production process. It will not be a lecture environment; it will be a workshop environment where you are getting your hands and minds wrapped around the specifically-tailored solutions you’re seeking for your projects.

Students will collaborate with each other, and with the instructors, with all of us helping complete each others’ projects and learning the music production solutions required to do so. Stanford has a beautiful, acoustically treated control room and acoustically adjustable recording room, a gorgeous grand piano, and an amazing collection of microphones, preamps, synthesizers and more — all reserved for the entire week and available to students for their recordings at the low cost of this workshop! Students can decide whether each project is recorded using Pro Tools, Logic or Ableton Live, or the instructors can decide for them.

Students who attend online may still collaborate with in-person students — for example, perhaps you’re a remote student guitarist who’d like to enlist the vocal abilities of one of our in-person students on your track, or vice versa. We’ll open up online students’ projects in class on Zoom and workshop your song with the people in attendance live — all remote students need is the recording software of your choice on your computer, and we’ll share a Dropbox folder with you. In-person students can use the recording software we’ll provide on computers at Stanford's studio, or the software on your own computer hooked into the Stanford studio — whichever is most convenient to you.

For those who’ve never been to Stanford’s CCRMA — it’s an absolutely beautiful place where you can sneak off outside and work on music together on the grass or under the trees before returning back inside to the studio, with on-campus student-favorite lunch restaurants available just a few minutes’ walk down the hill. This is the workshop environment you’ve always dreamed of to learn more about recording and how to get your dream creative projects done.

About the instructors:

Jay Kadis was audio engineer at CCRMA from 1988 to 2018, where he taught sound recording classes and wrote "The Science of Sound Recording" in 2012. He has made recordings and written and performed original music with bands since high school. His academic background includes neurophysiology, electronics and computer science.

Cory Cullinan iis Director of Music Technology & Recording Arts at Regis University in Denver; a Recording Arts faculty member at University of Colorado Denver; a former Recording Academy (Grammy) Board Member; the chart-topping recording and performing artist Doctor Noize and a member of Konshens & The Earth Band; an oft-commissioned composer for stage, screen and orchestra; the owner of Reach Studios in CO; a regular workshop teacher on Doctor Noize tours; a former award-winning high school arts department head and music teacher; and a graduate of the Stanford Music Department and CCRMA with Distinction & Honors. He also holds a Masters in Recording Arts from CU Denver.

Feel free to contact Cory Cullinan for questions at corycullinan@alumni.stanford.edu or (303) 886-8826