Listening Room Combines Music with Multimedia

Music faculty member Eric Sinclair with a student in the Listening Room

The PEA Music Library is pleased to announce a new resource for music students and their teachers: a multimedia listening room. Located in Room 111 in the lower left corner of the Forrestal-Bowld Music Building, the listening room includes a networked Macintosh computer with a 20-inch screen and external speakers. This equipment allows users to listen to audio recordings – either on CD or through Naxos Music Library, an online streaming music service — and view DVDs or Web content in the privacy of an enclosed, sound-proof area, removed from the traffic of the Music Library.

A special feature of the listening room computer is its ability to build and manage playlists with iTunes, the digital jukebox included on all Macintosh computers. A playlist is a collection of audio tracks stored in a single file folder and assigned a descriptive title (i.e. “Debussy Preludes”). By creating playlists, students and teachers are able to share recorded music from different sources without the need for physical CDs.

For students, the listening room is open Tuesday through Friday from 9:00am to 1:00pm (when the Music Librarian is on duty) and at other times with the permission of a Music Department faculty member.