PORTLAND – A Falmouth nonprofit is teaming up with a Portland arts school to broaden studio entry for up-and-coming musical artists.
Equal Measure Arts, the nonprofit Sam Monaco began final fall out of the music studio in his Falmouth residence, started a partnership this month with the Maine School of Artwork & Design.
“We at all times wished it to develop past the partitions of my studio,” Monaco mentioned.
The nonprofit’s objective was to pay for studio time and entry to younger musicians who in any other case couldn’t afford it. Â
The school, positioned on Congress Avenue in Portland, has been working an expert music studio for 10 years now as a part of the college’s Bob Crewe Program in Artwork and Music. Steve Drown, this system’s coordinator, mentioned he was excited on the thought of involving the school’s studio with the nonprofit.
“I’ve considered it for years, and simply by no means have taken motion,” he mentioned. “I wished to be part of a neighborhood to present entry to individuals who usually wouldn’t have entry to an expert audio studio.”
Proper now, Monaco mentioned a few dozen college students have labored underneath the nonprofit at his studio. In response to Drown, anyplace from 55 to 75 college students use the school’s studio yearly. Involving the school’s studio, Monaco and Drown mentioned, will enable college students to have a second, presumably extra handy studio out there in downtown Portland.
“Recording studios could be costly, they at all times have been,” Drown mentioned. “Individuals can independently file their very own music, which I encourage them to do however I’d like them to have the expertise of being in an expert studio to understand how good they will sound.”Â
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