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Services
Studio Hope provides
digital music creation and recording programs for children and
adolescents in these settings:
- Outpatient mental
health programs
- Hospitals
- After-school
programs
As of September 2006
we are able to work with groups of up to 20 students.
In
2006, Studio Hope added a new technology that
uses motion to trigger music
synthesizers. This technology allows us
to work with children with limited mobility such as children in
hospitals.
Studio Hope's
programs for children include these activities:
- Bringing mobile digital studio
equipment on-site, including a laptop computer, microphones,
mixing board, headphones and
more.
- Using state-of-the-art software
our staff works with kids to help them create compositions from
professionally pre-recorded music clips.
- By arranging professionally
produced music clips kids create digital music compositions with
outstanding sound quality.
- Kids use these compositions as
backing tracks for vocals or as stand-alone
compositions.
- Works in progress are burned to
CD for children to use for practicing vocal
tracks.
- Finished projects are burned
onto CD’s for the child to
keep.
- Students are
mentored to create issue-oriented, value-positive
lyrics.
Benefits
In mental health programs, kids who have a
limited experience of success enjoy the success of digitally
creating high quality music.
Helps children develop feelings of
competence and accomplishment as they create a musical composition
that sounds professionally produced.
By succeeding
in learning how to use digital music equipment to create enjoyable
compositions and high quality CD’s, children discover that they are
able to learn important skills and create positive
results.
Because they
are so enthusiastic about creating a CD, kids are motivated to
develop their reading and writing skills so they can compose lyrics
and deliver them in a
recording.
Studio Hope mentors children in
writing about lyrics about positive life values and skills. Some of our children in
mental health programs have written about the struggles they have
with issues like friendship and anger, about how they have worked to
change, the new values they have now and their hopes for a
positive future.
[link]
Shows teens how they can
set up their own home studio for the price of a summer
job.
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