Bergen Beats: Inside BCC's Music Studio
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“Truth, No Matter The Cost” VOL. 27... NO. 2 TORCHBCC.COM OCTOBER 2018 Read The Torch Bergen Beats: Inside BCC’s Music Studio From Your Phone: Featured Articles: Hurricane Florence Damages U.S. Mid- Atlantic Region Page 2 Gian Paul Gonzalez Kicks Off Hispanic Heritage Month Page 3 Brian “B” DeGroff using one of the labs many MIDI controllers to produce a new track // Francisco Camacho IAN ARDELLE a multitude of microphones. helped me hone in my craft… be the key to taking the talents One for All and All LAYOUT EDITOR Many students use this it taught me a lot.” around BCC and connecting for One: The Case of & space to exercise their music Within BCC’s music them through active networks, FRANCISCO CAMACHO abilities for their classes while program, students are actively greatly benefiting local artists. Dr. Christine Blasey STAFF WRITER others even use it to record for creating connections with Lee commented, “First you Ford’s Sexual Assault professional purposes. others in order to create large- will meet everyone in the BCC Many fantastic musicians The number of genres scale projects. community with which you fly under the radar every day music students play are Sean Lee and Seung can get recognition if you have and do not get the recognition innumerable and unique in Hyun ‘Clubby’ Yoo, music the talent.” they deserve. In fact, Bergen their own ways. Even among production majors who also Abraham Breton, the Community College itself is just a handful of these students, produce R&B and rap, have a music studio’s lab monitor, home to dozens of talented one can find punk, hip-hop, plan to connect many students described some of the benefits musicians who are constantly and R&B. The myriads of with each other and promote of the studio as a collaborative cultivating their arts and different styles allow for internal networking at BCC. environment, stating, “It’s one looking to improve their interesting collaborative “What we are starting now of the most important things in skills to excel in an incredibly opportunities, bustling with is a platform called 9th Ave music: marketing yourself and Page 6 competitive professional niche creative energy not found in and we are using that to get honing your skills in music.” that constantly changes with many professionally focused all Bergren students, not just Abraham also described each trend. These students environments. Because of the music students but all students that the music studio is a Trump Administration’s walk among the regular crowds exposure to different sounds, in the creative field to work blooming resource and that Border Policies every day. However, once they students can draw inspiration together.” the BCC music community is step into BCC’s recording from unrelated genres and Clubby and Lee address continuing to grow around the Get More Vicious, studio, their true colors come create potential to collaborate that the resources exist for studio. “I’m bringing in more Immigration Dwindles out in the form of instruments, with others looking for unique some very powerful BCC people - they just come in and vocals, keyboards and more. twists. creative projects, but also hone their skills… I wish more The studio, located in Beyond facilitating acknowledge that there is a people knew about it.” West Halls, is equipped with artistic collaboration, BCC lack of a platform to promote The West Hall music an expansive array of music allows students to refine the networking and collaborative studio is open from 10 - 6 composition and editing raw musical prowess of the energy. “There are a lot of Mondays, Wednesdays, equipment. Among them is students. Christopher Selman prospering artists in the BCC Thursdays, and Fridays, and an analog mixing console, a from Cliffside Park’s punk community that are all in their any students regardless of series of quality keyboards and band Feed Me to the Forest shells and are willing to come major are welcome to scope midi controllers, a collection attributes much of his growth out of their shells, but they have the place out or use the tools of high-end music production as a musician to the music no place to come out… we want the studio provides. software, and a quiet room with program, saying, “It really to change that.” 9th Ave could Page 7 2 NEWS THE TORCH VOLUME 27 ISSUE 2 OCTOBER 2018 NEWS ShutKATY TEMPLE Up and Vote“My vote doesn’t matter”. FEATURes EDITOR If your vote didn’t matter, the & government wouldn’t be trying to take ASHLEY SMITH it away from you. 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