This fall, Chapman welcomed a new elective. 

Audio engineering is a class led by Jimmy Pryor who previously worked at the District Office. 

This course is taught three times per day with a max of eight people per class. 

This class has a setup unlike any other class offered here at Chapman. It has mood lamps to help the students focus, and each one of the stations is named after a famous recording studio to give the classroom a unique feel. This class is available for anyone interested and there aren’t any requirements to sign up. 

“(The purpose was) to provide an additional pathway for careers for students,” said Pryor.

Career opportunities include, but are not limited to, live engineering, audio engineering, content creating, social media and music mixing.

Pryor found his love for music around the age of five when he started playing guitar. When he was seven or eight he got to go into the studio for the first time, and that gave him the idea that he wanted to share his love for music and audio with others.

Pryor hopes that his students share the love for music and take home valuable information for their futures.

“I think it provides students with additional career opportunities, additional hands-on opportunities,” he said. “(It gives) them a lifelong ability to hear music, to hear audio differently than everyone else.”

The majority of students who just started taking this class have already started to learn and hear things differently in music and in the world in general.

“I’ve started to hear things better especially with music,” said sophomore Isabella Stewart.

This new addition to Chapman is an opportunity to not only expand other students’ mindsets but to reinforce the feelings that other students already have. Many students have expressed their appreciation for this class. 

“I’ve always had a big love for music, but I think this will make it bigger,” said sophomore Nicholas Smith.