Welcome!
Thank you for expressing interest in Regrown Recordings’ first-ever Recording Summer Intensive! Our mission is to raise awareness for music production and recording as a viable career path, while bolstering the creative ambitions of young adults using industry-standard technology and production techniques.
Over the course of six 3-hour sessions, students will experience the entire process of creating, producing and releasing a song of their own creation - from songwriting to recording, mixing and mastering their own material. Student engineers will work as a team to fill the numerous roles required to bring a song from conception to completion. They will learn common practices and techniques that are involved in capturing high-quality audio, retaining high standards in the production process, and handling the recorded materials through the mixing and mastering stages.
Meet the Instructors
Matt Barba (Baldwin High School Alum, ‘14)
Matt is the the owner of Regrown Recordings, and has been a working audio and event production professional for 9 years in New York. After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Industry, he has gone on to open this professional home-recording space, as well as become a Managing Partner in FullStack Productions NY, a boutique event production company that specializes in providing sound systems, lighting, staging, backline and more to events of all shapes and sizes around New York.
Student engineers will learn a lot about the music-making process through Matt’s professionalism, passion and musicianship.
Laura Del Rosso
Laura Del Rosso is a certified NYS educator and has been teaching middle school Modern Band in the NYC DOE for 5 years. She holds both a Bachelor's and Masters degree in Music Education from Syracuse University. Laura has experience teaching guitar, keyboard, bass, voice, music technology, songwriting, and recording to students of all ages.
Student engineers will be in great hands as a result of her experience as a professional music educator.
Workshop Details
When?
Sessions will take place every Tuesday & Thursday from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, starting on August 1 and ending on August 17. There will be a listening party with food and drinks for students and parents on August 17 to demonstrate the students’ work!
Where?
All sessions will take place at Regrown Recordings, at 1061 Hayes Street in Baldwin, NY.
Who Can Enroll?
At this time, we are currently only accepting student engineers that are entering their sophomore, junior or senior year of high school. Students must attend school in Nassau or Suffolk counties.
This 6-session period will be limited to only 5 students, so reserve your spot soon! REGISTRATION FORMS ARE DUE JULY 15! If there are no spots left, you will be put on a wait list.
We recommend this camp to anyone that is interested in the process of creating and producing music! Whether you are a musician, songwriter, or an aspiring engineer/producer, this class will introduce you to professional practices surrounding the creation of music, recording techniques, mixing & mastering. All students will be expected to participate in some aspect of the musical performance, as well as recording.
Pricing
The full 6-session period will be a total up-front fee of $500 per student. This tuition fee includes:
One fully produced, mixed & mastered song - performed and produced with the student engineers
This song is intended to be released publicly on all streaming platforms, and digital downloads or CD’s are available upon request
Printed copy of Regrown Recordings’ Home Recording Guide
August 17th listening party with food and drinks
A Regrown Recordings t-shirt
A songwriting journal
Links to advanced resources for further learning
More About Regrown Recordings…
Matt founded Regrown Recordings in 2019 in order to have an official home for local artists to create music that they love, at a level of professional quality that you’d expect from a commercial studio. Using his skills in building and wood-working, as well as a lot of help and donations from others, Matt built this studio with a focus on utilizing up-cycled and second-hand materials in every aspect of the space - from the studs in the walls to the main control desk, a large percentage of this studio was built using recycled and up-cycled materials.
Since then, Matt has gone on to record, mix and master for numerous local artists, podcasters and more. He has cultivated partnerships with the Baldwin Public Library and Midstage Music during the pandemic to spread music online and support local artists, and he has been interviewed by Newsday for an article that highlighted the best home studios on Long Island for multiple artistic disciplines - from dance, to photography, to music. Check out the article, here! (paywall)