The Spokane Public Library will launch its first five-day music camp starting Monday. With its own recording studio, the Central Library will provide an area for 12- to 16-year-olds to learn the process of writing and recording their own music.
The camp is led by Andy Rumsey, the library’s music instruction specialist. A singer, songwriter and sound engineer in his own right, Rumsey brings his expertise in composition and audio production as part of the library’s partnership with Spark Central to various workshops and music events. as Girls Rock Lab. At the Central Library, he teaches music classes and provides individual audio engineering facilities as a component of the Book an Audio Engineer program.
“This camp, as well as Girls Rock Lab from previous years, is just me combining all my skills and mixing them into one event,” Rumsey said.
Rumsey had been talking for years about the option of a week-long music camp at the library, and it turns out that the program would be a hit with the community. This summer’s music camp is at full capacity and your good fortune has prompted more music. Camps will be planned at least once a year.
The camp offers five days of instruction and practice, culminating in a recording consultation using library equipment.
“I have a little template on the ins and outs of songwriting that I’ve used before, and the first few days will be about teaching kids a tool or just making sure they’re as talented as a tool for writing songs and then in the Last day, they will record a song and then have something tangible to take back to their families to show what they did,” Rumsey said.
The event focuses on music education, but also offers opportunities for local youth to network and express themselves.
“All my life, music has been a way to connect with myself and with others, and it has allowed me to exploit what I feel. And if you can tap into what you think and feel, then you’ll be better prepared to express yourself explicitly. “to others what you think and feel,” Rumsey said.
While tickets for this occasion are sold out, you can keep an eye out for other music systems in ocasiones. spokanelibrary. org. Or if you already have a few songs in mind, you can book the recording studio via email, along with Rumsey’s audio engineering tips, in spokanelibrary. org/recording-studio.
The Central Library recording area offers much more than just recording and mixing equipment. The self-recording segment has just about everything you’d want to go through and record your own songs.
“You reserve the room like any other meeting room, unless when you enter, it is a room with a television, you have acoustic drums, electric drums, keyboard, acoustic and electric guitar, It has an electric bass and two ukuleles, as well as two microphones.
The recording studio features a GarageBand-equipped computer so that network members can combine their audio recordings on-site.
“If you reserve this room by email, you will have this playground at your disposal,” Rumsey said.
Built as part of the Central Library’s recent renovations, the recording studio marks the next breakdown in the way local libraries are responding to the community’s transformative desires.
“This is part of the long-standing culture of libraries expanding access to the newest technology,” Rumsey said. “They were books, yes, it’s an essential component of what we do. Then, over the years, audiobooks appeared. “, then computers, then the Internet, so. . . It makes perfect sense that we start offering some of those more modern things that other people demand.