The Recording Studio is is ALMOST DONE!
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Tell friends and family about our work and ask them to join you in support of this DREAM UNFOLDING.
(check out more photos of the studio here)
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Executive Director Ann Hackler and Artistic Director June Millington hired architect Tristram Metcalfe in 2003 and began working out plans for the conversion of IMA’s Big Barn into a teaching, performing and recording space. Contractor Mark Landy was hired in early ’04 and construction began that spring with the addition of 1,100 square feet to the original structure for the bunk house and studio. The barn conversion work has ebbed and flowed with the availability of funds and the demands of programming, always stopping for the summer rock camps. The building of the recording studio interior brings this million dollar conversion project to completion. We are so proud of what we have accomplished we do not regret one cent of it.
We are especially proud that we have built what we believe is the first world-class recording facility with a mission to support the work of female musicians. At the AES Convention in 2005, Artistic Director June Millington connected with interior designer Beth Walters of the internationally known studio architectural firm WSDG, Inc. (Walters/Storyk Design Group). Walters quickly understood the importance of our vision and convinced her husband John Storyk, whose first studio design job was Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, to come on board for the project and do most of the work pro bono.
The WSDG-designed studio features a large control room, a post-production suite and two isolation booths. All four rooms are “floating” on special Kinetics material and connected via a central patchbay to each other and the barn proper, which also has four rooms of different sizes. IMA can now offer something that is becoming increasingly rare in the recording world: a facility large enough to accommodate an orchestra, with high ceilings where it is possible to “push air” and which has two iso-booths (which are controllable and prevent cross-talk) connected to the Control Rooms via specially designed doors and windows.
Much of the design and construction time is being donated, as are quite a few building materials and supplies. In addition, the studio equipment and technical materials themselves have already been donated or promised.
While the studio and performance area are progressive even by 21st Century standards, the historic integrity of the 200-year-old-barn has been faithfully maintained throughout the design and construction process.
In addition to securing $250,000 in corporate donations, in-kind services and volunteer labor, IMA raised cash donations of over $350,000 to support this project as well as obtaining $350,000 in loans. Another $40,000 is needed to finish the wiring and to install air conditioning in the control rooms. We would like to raise $20,000 in donations now in order to finish pulling and soldering the studio wiring before the Studio Recording Program begins in August.
JOIN THE IMA DREAM MAKERS
•We invite you to help by making a donation of any size to the capital campaign.
•Write a check now or donate via paypal on our website.
•You can still have your name, or that of someone who inspired you to follow your own dreams, on the dedication plaque as a major donor to this historic endeavor with a contribution of $10,000 or more.
•Tell friends and family about our work and ask them to join you in support of this DREAM UNFOLDING.
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IMA is a registered charitable corporation with a status of 501(c)3, all donations are tax-deductible
Barn at night, summer 2008
Recording Faculty Roma Baran with student Joy Conz, summer 2007
June Millington with Recording Program participants, summer 2006
