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Intelligent MIDI Technology Classrooms

Date: (10/6/2009)

Facultad de Música

To follow the steps of the music industry and the working world’s tendencies, the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon decided to build and equip an intelligent and modern classroom with cutting-edge digital music technology.

Photos by Luis Salazar

By Luis Salazar

In observance with an academic programs´ reformation, the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon’s (Spanish acronym UANL) School of Music took an important step when deciding to build and equip an intelligent and modern classroom with cutting-edge digital music technology.

We are talking about a modern classroom with an electronic whiteboard, sixteen computers and specialized software to work with the formats required by the leisure and entertaining industry and the institutions nowadays.

In this classroom, said Professor Jorge Alberto Mata — in charge of the Music Computer Classroom — the student acquires the must-have skills, abilities, and competencies such us the MIDI format, and handling digital audio, which are the basic elements of the music created by computer.

The music created by computer, stressed out Mata, practically offers the theoretic and technical elements required by the MIDI format and the digital audio.

“MIDI is a language that allows the digital-electronic devices to communicate. This revolutions the companies´ work, the new technologies, and the new music genres.”

With the digital media programs´ use it will be possible to record, edit, interpret, compose, and produce the music. The goal is for the students that graduate to be more competitive in the working world and to have an open access to the music industry market whether it is Internet, multimedia, radio, television, or production companies.

“All this music is created in digital format,” he mentioned.

Nowadays, the MIDI system is widely used in different events due to its advantages, such us the digital audio editing through a computer.

“The purpose is to print our partiture with the guide to read MIDI and interpret the music by the computer’s program. A sequence package is comprised of a series of tracks or instruments that allow us to record one by one to obtain, at the end a complete instrumentation,” he explained.

The School, in search of its students´ — and the people interested in the music field — development, has created workshops to teach this system and carry out musical creations.

NEW INSTRUMENTS ARE ACQUIRED

Through the Institutional Strengthening Integral Program and the UANL´s Foundation´s investment, the School of Music received more than seventy musical instruments.

Among them we find different-sized sweet flutes, clavichord, celesta, disklavier, harp, pianos, guitars, keyboards.

Also, accordion, flutes, trumpets, tuba, horn, English horn, clarinets, violins, violoncellos, violas, timbales, tubular bells, drums and other percussion instruments.

The School was already considering having intelligent classrooms and a large number of instruments to practice with. This was a result of the one-on-one classes for professors ask students to practice with the instruments.

“A student, commanded by his professor, goes to a cubicle to practice on the piano. Thus, it is very important to have spaces where they can learn, to have more master classes and other alternatives such as the MIDI workshop,” said the coordinator Luis Gerardo Lozano.