TRCoA wishes you a safe and happy New Years.

We are currently pre-enrolling and getting geared up for the next Beginning Audio Engineering class, starting January 15th. Schedule a tour and see why TRCoA is becoming the destination for up and coming audio engineers.

We are having our open house Saturday, January 10th, 4pm-6pm. We are excited about this months open house and hope to have a many attendees. Everyone is welcome. Come see the new facility and chat it up with some of TRCoA's students, mentors, engineers, and musicians. We will have enchiladas from El Sol y La Luna.

Saturday, January 10th
El Sol y La Luna enchiladas and drinks
4:00pm - 6:00pm
RSVP to request a map to the studio.

It has been a wonderful year for our friends at Conspirare with a number of events wrapping up the year.

- Conspirare received two Grammy Award nominations for its recent CD, "Threshold of Night." The nominations are for Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance. The 51st annual Grammy Awards will be announced February 8, 2009 on CBS.

- A Christmas Eve radio event, Conspirare's "Christmas at the Carillon", on public radio stations across the U.S. The program contained selections recorded in 2006 and 2007 at the Carillon chapel in Austin. These concerts were recorded, mixed and mastered by John Stinson, founder of TRCoA and Stinson Studios.

- Producing another exciting and beautiful Christmas at the Carillon. This years show featured Eliza Gilkyson playing to sold out crowds.

Listen (MP3) to What A Wonderful World from the 2008 Christmas at the Carillon with Eliza Gilkyson recorded by John Stinson, founder of TRCoA and Stinson Studios.

Seth Gibson, a Beginning Audio Engineering student, has been in the studio working with FlatCar Rattlers. The FlatCar Rattlers are the love baby of a wild hog that got stuck in a mud hole and a blind bootlegger that was lookin' for a good time. Each band member contains a super power that can only be used under hot lights and while under the influence. Best served lukewarm.

Listen (MP3) to River of Sin.

Alt-country songwriter Chris Brecht has been in the studio working with Sarah van Ballegooijen, a Beginning Audio Engineering student. There's nothing really restricting a songwriter like Brecht to the alt-country label. He digs more deeply into traditional roots and Americana, inspired by influences like Dylan but not imitating them.

Listen (MP3) to House of the Rising Sun.

Rusty Kotzur, a TRCoA graduate, has been in the studio working with Edison Chair. This young Austin indie rock-pop band is one to watch. Check out the work Rusty and the guys from Edison Chair have produced. Edison Chair is Wes Armstrong: drums, keyboard, Martin Aker: bass, vocals, and Nathan Thrash: guitar, keyboard, vocals.

Listen (MP3) to Sound of a Picture.

Ode to Oscillator is a side project Brandon, a TRCoA Advanced Music Production student, has been working on. An electronic indie rock project, friends and family cycle in and out contributing fragments of sound.

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