The Music Department utilizes several venues on campus for instructional and concert purposes. While the principal performing venue for the Department of Music is Hall Auditorium, the department's home is in two buildings, Presser Hall and the Center for Performing Arts which houses and supports the bulk of the
department's activities. Along with 78 practice rooms, spacious rehearsal facilities for large and small ensembles and numerous fully equipped classrooms, areas of special importance include
<> Sidney W. Souers Recital Hall
<> Amos Music Library
<> Electronic keyboard center for class piano equipped with state-of-the-art Yamaha CP103 digital keyboards
The Center for the Performing Arts is also home to two electronic music studios. The large studio serves as a classroom for Miami's innovative and popular Electronic Music class, an audio recording facility, and as a general haven of music technology. Equipped with a MIDI-interfaced Macintosh computer, keyboard, and a series of tone generators and signal processors, as well as multi-track recording devices, the studio is suitable for advanced work in the field of electronic music.
The second studio is provided as a lab for electronic music students to work on class assignments, as well as independent projects. This smaller space provides digital multi-track recording, analog MiniMoog synthesizer, MIDI keyboard with two tone generators, and effects processors.
The Music Recording Service, also located in Miami University's Center for Performing Arts, offers direct-to-CD live recording of concerts and recitals using professional equipment including digital-audio editing software and CD burning capabilities. Priced reasonably, it is available to Miami University students and faculty.
Presser Hall will go through a major renovation beginning in the fall of 2006, with renovation to the CPA occurring shortly thereafter. The renovations will create major new facilities for the Department of Music, with Presser Hall the focal point for the department.