 My name is Dr. Elliot Miles McKinley. I am assistant professor of composition, music theory, and music technology at Roger Williams University. I had a position at Indiana University East. I had developed a lab similar to this one, but not nearly as nice. So I knew more or less what needed to happen in terms of the computers, the software, the hardware, what I envisioned in terms of what would be interesting for the students and also of long-term value. And I designed the lab basically from that perspective. I didn't know where it would be housed until just a few months before the facility was actually built. So the room itself, I didn't know where it would go. But I knew like the surround sound system, how many workstations, the 12 workstations. I knew the software. I knew most of the hardware we needed. I knew how more or less the lab should work in terms of function and pedagogical reasons. The technology in the space consists of 12 Macintosh student workstations. The workstations contain a variety of software, professional level software, Max MSP, Reason, Ableton Live, Pro Tools. All of the software is more or less designed for editing, music production and mostly music creation. That's really about 75% of what we do in here is really a creative act. We also have a main workstation that has the same software and a few other packages as well. Some larger sound libraries, Logic Pro and some video editing stuff along with a very nice 32-channel digital mixer. And the main workstation also goes out to the Samsung display, which is used for teaching. In the back of the room we have a storage area where we have a variety of smaller equipment like MIDI controllers, foot controllers, pads, extra headphones, cabling. We also have a few vintage instruments like an ARP Odyssey 2600 and a Moog Voyager. All of that is designed for students to check out the equipment to be able to use, for example to do remote recording, to do remote composing or performing, and there will be a lot more of that happening in the future. I wouldn't be able to teach any of the classes in the curriculum without this room. There's just no way. Basically, the very first class in my curriculum works on teaching the principles and foundations of electronic and computer music through a software program called Reason, which is a software modeling environment. The software models analog instruments, vintage instruments. So for example, the students will learn how to do basic analog synthesis using the software as if they had a synthesizer in front of them that they could pull the knobs and do everything like this. Trying to teach something like that without that software and without the computers that could run that software would be impossible. So it has made the curriculum possible. If we didn't have the lab, we wouldn't be teaching, there would be no track in technology.