I decided to start this because I wanted to see where life would go now that I have been accepted into California Institute of the Arts and am now leaving a life of stable financial income and entering a world where hard work is rewarded...but with a little luck behind it as well. Art is art and that's how it will always be: a kind of luxury that's never needed but always wanted. However I felt that this community of people - a petridish of brewing knowlege - was something that I was looking for and something away from normal teaching standards.
So with that, I decided to quit going to my UC school and set out forth into this new life. All hopes to the best and I'm hoping that recording this in my blog will help others as well.
And now my first thoughts of Calarts when I visited there for the first time on acceptance day...
For acceptance day...it was a very interesting day. I enjoyed the president's speech and all he had to say as well as the facilities. We then took a tour around, specifically, the music school. The recording facility was pretty dark and gloomy but I think that I won't be spending my time in there as much anyway. I particularly liked the other rooms where it had a bunch of tools and junk around for building your own controllers for 3rd and 2nd years!
The school itself was very tiny, even though I only saw the music wing of it. It reminded me a lot of what my girlfriend tells me of her school in the midwest: closed in and not a very outdoorsy school. It had lockers and display cases and all that and it almost made me feel like I was in highschool all over again.....sans the movie theater sign that blared "BIJOU" to us.
The music department seemed to be color coded by green doors so I knew that that was where I was going to be living all my 4 years at Calarts...although dark as a cave, I felt that this environment was exactly what I needed. It had all the materials and resources I could ask for.
Speaking of resources, later in the acceptance day (after the tour, that is) we met with our main professor. 6 of us gathered into a room and talked with Ajay Kapur, the head professor of the Music Technology Program. He sounded very knowledgeable despite his young age and for how long he's been teaching (2 years). He went over how each year was going to go and it sounded very much tailored to what I wanted: to be a very interesting dj act and to be self-sustainable in a growing music industry.
I must mention that during this talk we did all introduce ourselves and...man was I with a group of NERDS. I didn't really think I was going to be with these kind of people but holy crap I was kind of taken aback. These people are nerdy to the core and it was hard to realize it....I just hope this won't stall my connection-making career haha.
After his talk, I was completely wowed and wanted to start immediately...however that was impossible and now I have to wait til September. What a wait. So now I am going to quit my classes at my UC and do work or something til September...I am absolutely excited.
I really liked this program from what it sounded because of how tailor-made and custom-made it is, I am very glad I got into this program. I had a pleasant lunch as well and had my parents talk to the professor to kind of ease their feelings about jobs. It feels like I might be able to get a decent job out of this if I play my cards right. I just really want to work hard and get their scholarships as well. I will work and I will triumph!
That is all for now really. I have to do a lot of cancelling and applying and a bunch of things to improve my production skills. I hope all of this works out in the end, and this is why I'm writing this.
My name is Ersatz and I am a BFA1 Music Technology major at Calarts. Let's do this!
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