Hey I'm Simon, I study Music here at Newcastle University
and I'm going to show you around the facilities. So we start here in the
Armstrong building and the first room I'm going to show you is King's Hall.
So Kings Hall is where lunchtime concerts happen, it's also where student performances happen. We
also have a really nice organ here we have all the piano and Orchestra also practicing
here. It's a great space where students can come and perform or they can just practice.
So the next room I'm going to show you is the Recital Room.
The recital room is where first and second years have their recitals at the end of the
year. It's also a fantastic space to do practices, rehearsals and everything you
want to do. We also put on workshops in here as well and it's a great acoustic and a great space.
So the next room here
is the music common room this is where students can come in,
they can hang out there before lectures. It's also got computers in here so they
can do a bit of work, they can print and they can just chill out in general.
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So this is our studio space, again it's a little bit like the recital room but it's
a place where students can come in and do a practice. It can fit a whole Orchestra in here,
lectures also happen in here - but much more practical workshops.
Across the way we have the music skill Suite - this is a fantastic room where
students can come in and they can use the computers and Facilities provided.
It has all the latest software which they can use.
So these displays that we have around campus, the music department actually control them,
so they can put on all their local events so music students can actually see what's going on.
this is our loan hatch this is where you can come and pick up some equipment so
you can rent equipment for for free here at the University. There's about half a million pounds
of equipment so there's definitely something for everybody. Our technicians are also on
standby if you need any help with the technical equipment. This is also where we have our lockers
where students can rent them out, and they can have a locker to store their equipment.
So that was the Armstrong building,
now we're going to head across campus you can see our music studios
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So although there's loads of buildings, a lot of them actually have a connection to
music. For example this one here is where some pop finalists do their final recitals.
This building here is our Northern Stage,
which is the on-campus theatre right opposite the students union.
So after a short walk across campus we arrived here at our music studios.
So this is the music studios, this is our own dedicated building just for music students.
This bit in here is where our technicians live and it's uh if you need any help with
any of the equipment in this building then you can call on them to help you
In here is our second common room, it has a space, a little kitchen area and
it has lockers where people can put stuff and they can chill out before rehearsals.
So this is the first floor of the music studios. This floor is home to a variety of rooms,
from music practice rooms to flexi workspaces. Flexi workspace is an area where you can do
pretty much anything; so you can record, you can compose, you can practice and you can even
get your band together. So we'll just pop our heads in here and see if anything's going on.
Ah cool, so we've got two guys just practicing guitar obviously you can see the room is set up so
you can practice as a band, you can do recording and stuff, so you can do pretty much anything.
So we're now on the third floor and this is home to our two recording studios. So I'll
take you inside uh Studio number one. So as you can see this is the mixing room, and then through
here is quite a large uh live room it's probably big enough to get an 18 piece big band. There's
teaching which happens in here, and also students can book it out for their own personal recording.
So the last stop on our tour is the band room, the band room is a great room where you can practice
as a band together. You can also have concerts down here, so it will fit about 40 people sitting
and it has all the lights and sound equipment. By the sounds of it there's
actually people practicing so we'll go in and see what they're getting up to
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So thank you for joining me on my tour that is sadly the end, but I hope you enjoyed it
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