Recording Arts
UW-Eau Claire's recording arts certificate is your first step in becoming a mix engineer or sound designer.
Learn to Engineer Sound Recordings
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's recording arts certificate features a robust, interdisciplinary curriculum that addresses diverse interests in both sound and technology. The program offers students a foundation in musicianship, design, and recording technology, as well as opportunities to explore specific interests in areas like composition, design, music history, physics of sound, and business.
The 18-credit program includes both required and elective courses, as well as an internship and firsthand experience in a recording arts studio. This real-world experience, combined with a rigorous curriculum, prepares students to meet the challenge of making a studio recording or a live recording that captures the quality of an actual performance.
Acceptance into the program may be limited due to available resources, internships, and needs of the program. An application is required.
Program Details
As part of the recording arts certificate curriculum, you'll spend 30-plus hours in a recording arts internship, gaining direct experience in the field. You may find yourself in a professional or community-based music setting, cultural setting, educational organization or a local business, making connections and gaining valuable new skills.
Knowledge of the recording arts can lead you to interesting and exciting career paths that you may never have considered before, from sound designers to mix engineers.
We are proud to partner with the Eau Claire community's newest performance venue, Pablo Center at the Confluence. This state-of-the-art facility is home to many UWEC classes, rehearsals, and performances. It also houses a recording studio, where students can gain real-world experience recording music.
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Where can the recording arts program lead me after graduation?
A variety of jobs are available to those with a recording arts background. You could work as a mix engineer, making creative choices that influence the effects, balance, and tonality of every element that’s been recorded. Or, put the final touches on a recording as a mastering engineer. Lesser-known careers include roles like sound designers, who are responsible for the sounds you hear in movies, on TV, and in video games. They record sounds for footsteps, door creaks, and all those human touches that make a scene seem real.
Example Careers
- Mix Engineer
- Mastering Engineer
- Live Sound Engineer
- Sound Designer
Through fascinating coursework, you will record sound within live and studio contexts and learn how to use digital recording software for mixing and editing. Elective, interdisciplinary courses throughout the minor — including those in business, communications and journalism, mathematics, and theatre — will broaden your perspective on the basic principles of acoustics and sound within a variety of real-world contexts. This will also prepare you for the competitive recording arts industry.
Here are a few courses in Recording Arts at UW-Eau Claire.
MUSI 317
Sound Technology Principles
This course focuses on principles of live sound mixing and recording, including hands-on work in recording studios.
MUSI 102
Fundamentals of Music
Introduction to musical skills and notation: reading and notating simple music; singing; playing melodies, chords, and scales on recorder and piano; basics of pitch, rhythm, timbre, form, and texture.
MUSI 217
Topics in Sound Recording
Lecture/Discussion Hours: VariableTopics will vary depending on the interests of students and faculty. Topics will address various concepts and techniques in sound recording techniques and technology.
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