A new music school has opened its doors in Santa Eulària this year and its functions include promoting music production. It has hired the DJ, producer, sound engineer and musical artist Javier Ferrer, the CEO of Métrica Recording Studio, who is leading the editing and production courses with a very clear objective: “Unlike other conservatories, what I want to do is create composers,” he says. “I’m going to give them the tools to learn how to compose, because the idea is to make music.”
This is the first municipal school to have dedicated a classroom to creating music with electronic media, as well as teaching students how to play all the instruments. Among the main attractions is Ableton Live software, an “instrument of instruments” taught by the producer – one of the few certified trainers in Spain.
Musicians will also be able to learn how to record themselves, and soon electronic sounds will be accompanying the 60 members of the school orchestra. “We have a very important mission, which is to educate people with music,” adds Javier, who will also host masterclasses taught by prominent figures from the world of music as an added teaching strategy.
There will be no limit to the creativity or age of the students. As well as the beginners’ classes for students aged up to four, Javier will be adding classes for seniors, both in digital literacy and the handpan drum whose vibrations provides certain benefits. Then there is an intensive course in urban music aimed at young people, “where they will learn how to create their beats or record using autotune.”
Another of the course contents suggested by Javier, combining his work at school with his live music project Aigua and his job at the head of Métrica, is getting to know the secrets of the recording studio, which will also function as a center for research, technology design and work in immersive audio.
