![]() ![]() “For my first gig,” Marcus said, “I was happy.” The initiative lasted 48 years, until being discontinued in 2018. Next, Marcus joined the pre-professional music program, which employed urban youth to perform each summer at community events. You have what it takes,’” Marcus remembers him saying. It was Joe Carello, the band’s director at that time, who spotted Marcus during the competition. They were like, ‘Man, you don't have what it takes. “A lot of my peers from high school were in it, and I would ask them about it. I need a drummer for the Stan Colella All-Stars Band,’” Marcus recalled. “After our set, one of the judges came backstage and was like, ‘Hey, man, you're killing it. WAER News Marcus Oliver plays the tambourine in studio. “So it would be ‘dah na naah na nuh na nuuh,’ Mira sings to Joe as she warms up on her guitar. ![]() In the recording process, we're often concerned about the ambient sound reflections of the room, and that room is very, very, very well designed.”ĭuring the first studio session, as three of Jim’s students - Eric Timlin, Eleanor Bushway and Taylor Fryer - set up equipment, Mira noodles with the chord change. “It was designed by a renowned acoustician named Chips Davis, who has made studios throughout the world. “The room itself acoustically is extremely well designed,” Jim explained. For this, the area around the monitors is deadened, or made absorbent acoustically, and the remainder of the room (the part behind the listener) is made “live” or reflective. It’s the first studio ever designed solely for audio preservation and utilizes the design concept known as LEDE - Live End Dead End. Recording took place at the Belfer Audio Laboratory on campus, tucked away beside SU's Bird Library. Participants Joe Driscoll and Ayman El-Hindi, along with three of Elenteny's students, look on. WAER News Jim Elenteny, professor of sound recording technology, sits at the digital mixer in the Belfer Audio Laboratory during the first session. I was like, 'I can't do this.' But if it's annoying me that much, I could just stop learning covers and write my own stuff. “I hit a point in my learning where I was ready to give up. “I was in a love-hate relationship with music at that time,” she said. It was over the course of COVID that she started to write her own songs, at age 12. ![]() To locate up-and-coming talent, WAER sought nominations and were connected with PSLA Fowler rising sophomore Mira Grimm, 15, and recent Manlius Pebble Hill graduate Ayman El-Hindi, 18.īorn into a musical family, Mira has played guitar and ukulele since age 11. “I think that there's something magical when musicians who haven't played together interact,” said Joe, who has created spontaneous songs, multiple times, with newly met musicians, in various countries. The collaboration features two high schoolers and two working musicians in their early 20s, all collaborating under the guidance of Syracuse music scene veteran Joe Driscoll. For this inaugural session, five musicians - across different generations and genres - came together over the course of three weeks. ![]()
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