A complex designed specifically for the creation, production and diffusion of electroacoustic music.
A building of its own, raised beside the Institute of Arts
The studio's floor plan was conceived by the composer Flo Menezes. The result is a 303-square-metre complex designed specifically for the creation, production and diffusion of electroacoustic music. The construction images show the octagonal design, the ideal shape to encompass a symmetrical octophony.
A research laboratory with six acoustically isolated studios
Institutionally, within Unesp and the Institute of Arts, Studio PANaroma is considered a research laboratory. The building we occupy was constructed at the same time as the Institute of Arts building in Barra Funda and annexed to it in 2011. The laboratory brings together six independent, acoustically isolated studios.
Studio A: a multipurpose studio with a 16.1 system, formed by two parallel octophonies plus a stereo pair for mastering. It is PANaroma's teaching core: it hosts undergraduate and graduate classes, lectures and listening sessions, as well as recording technique, mastering and spatial composition of multichannel works.
Microphone collection, Disklavier and real-time electronics testing
The recording room holds a substantial collection of dozens of microphones — Neumann, AKG and Sennheiser, DPA, Shure — and a Yamaha Disklavier C7 MIDI piano. Besides sound recording, it serves as a rehearsal room and a space for testing real-time electronics, for which it has a compact octophony.
Quadraphony and workstations for student composition
Studios C, D and E each have a quadraphonic system.
All studios have Apple computers and high-end audio interfaces, along with a set of the most advanced and up-to-date composition software and plugins. Students generally book consecutive four-hour blocks to compose during the week.
One-on-one composition tutoring and the Studio's digital archive
Studio B is the faculty space, where one-on-one composition tutorials take place, but it can also be used as a composition studio.
The Tech Room houses our integrated storage system: there, students log in to access scores, books, patches and all kinds of theoretical and technical support documents, as well as storing work in progress and the vast bank of recorded sounds available to researchers and composers.