As someone who was a music ed major as well for my first two years of
college, I can say that you're in good company. Probably a quarter of
people involved in the computer industry are musicians. I think you
should think about leveraging your music degrees to get into the
computer industry instead of how to just approach a computer job like
being a programmer or an administrator.
The first thing that comes to mind is games. There are many games
that have a large budget for custom music, often recorded using
electronic instruments.
There are also probably people who act as technology testers or
consultants for music software creators like Reason, Garage Band,
Cubase, etc. Even electronic music equipment manufacturers need these
people for software that they write.
So how do you get these jobs? Perhaps just meet some people who are
already in them at conferences, through forums or whatever. I think the
computer music/audio industry has grown a lot in the past 10 years. For
the first few decades of computing, audio took a back seat to graphics,
but now its finally caught up and there are careers in that kind of
stuff. There is also the whole emerging industry of streaming music and
cataloging it. These are just a few ideas, just look around your own
house and think of how all the electronics are created and realize that
there are many people behind the creation of each one of those items.
Including musicians.
I think Joe Auty and some of the other musicians on the list will have
something to say too.
Mark
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 08:03:15PM GMT, Ben Shewmaker [benshewmaker@yahoo.com] said the following:
> Hey all,
>
> I was hoping to get a little bit of advice from people on this mailing list. After getting an undergraduate degree in music education and starting a masters in saxophone performance at IU, I quit after a semester because I wasn't enjoying it anymore. I was looking at other options and thought I'd like to try electronic music and so started a masters in electronic music from the University of Miami. But, after a semester there, I find myself back in Bloomington again searching for a career that excites me and also has a better chance of gainful employment than finding a position to teach electronic music at the university level (which is what I thought I would do with my masters in electronic music. turns out I wasn't that into the program and there are very few positions for what I was training myself for. maybe 5 to 10 positions in the country every year according to a proff at IU).
>
> Anyways, I am again reconsidering my options and was at least glimpsing in the direction of some sort of career involved in computers or networking. I know saying I want a job here is like saying I want a job doing music; music is too broad a categorization as there are many specific areas of study within music. I was just hoping if anyone could at least point me in the right direction to find out what types of positions are out there, how hard they are to get, how rewarding they are, etc. And also, what type of education is required to enter this field and are there any really good schools nearby for computer science type degrees. I know IU has a great music school but I know nothing about their other departments.
>
> Any help anyone could give me would be really appreciated!
>
> Ben Shewmaker
>
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