Music Industry Recording Arts (MIRA)

Become a music technology expert

Our program helps students develop “real world” skills that musicians need to thrive in a diverse and competitive music industry. The program offers a well-rounded, technology-based educational experience to student musicians, composers, producers, DJs, live-sound reinforcement enthusiasts and post-production technologists. The program emphasizes creative processes, technical training, business practices and entrepreneurial skills in a collaborative environment.

The MIRA Associate in Science degree offers a well-rounded, technology-based education to student musicians, composers, producers, DJs, live-sound reinforcement enthusiasts and post-production technologists.

Our Avid Certified Pro Tool Operator Certificate transfers to the A.S. degree.

The A.S. program consists of three key elements:

1. General Education Requirements
2. Core Music Technology curriculum
3. Subplans or Specialty Tracks geared toward the student's career plan objectives

Each subplan compliments the Core Technology curriculum and is based on three established career paths in the music and entertainment field. These tracks represent the most desired disciplines within the Music Technology realm and provide students the highest quality educational experience available.

While these are distinct paths, each subplan track intersects with the others so that all participants interact and cooperate with contrasting specialties. This collaboration will simulate “real-world” situations for artists. Students will gain a working portfolio that can be used to further his or her career.

Subplans and suggestions for course progression include:

• Music Technology for Production  
• Music Technology for Composition 
• Music Technology for Performance 

Our programs can prepare you for the following careers:

• Audio and Video Equipment Technician 
• Broadcast and Sound Engineering Technician 

Employment opportunities exist in: 

• Music industry
• Advertising firms
• Recording studios
• Radio and television broadcasting
• Theaters, symphonies and opera
• Film industry

Explore your options

• SPC's Career Development Services 
• What Do You Like? - Explore career information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Choices Planner - Create a portfolio for your career exploration through the Florida Department of Education
• SPC Career Pathways - A partnership between SPC and the Pinellas County School Board that gives high school students free college credit for high school and technical programs.

By the numbers

• Occupational Outlook Handbook – Job profiles covering hundreds of occupations from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Career One Stop - Tools for job seekers, students, businesses, and career professionals from the U.S. Department of Labor
• What People Are Asking - Florida job and wage data for specific areas from Florida's Labor Market Statistics Center

The St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus has a fully loaded, multi-faceted music production suite geared toward the aspiring music professional, no matter what their specialized line of study.

Music Technology Lab

• 18 Pro Tools LE workstations with M-box 2 and M-Box 2 Pro interfaces, Dell Optiplex 755 and Apple iMac 24 computers, and M-Audio Axiom 61 keyboard controllers.
• Each workstation also has Pro Tools Version 8, Finale 2009 and Sibelius 5 installed for music notation, Native Instruments Komplete 5 and Reason 4 for additional sound sources.
• Apple Logic Express and Final Cut Express (iMac only) for additional software training.
• An isolation booth for recording is also integrated into the Music Lab studio.
• One Digidesign Command 8 and two M-Audio Trigger Fingers are available for mixing automation and drum programming.

Production Suite

The MIRA Studio

MIRA has a professional style recording studio/laboratory on the St. Petersburg/Gibbs campus. It contains the gold standard of digital workstations:

• Digidesign Pro Tools HD2 setup with a 16 input/8 output 192 I/O Interface, Digidesign Sync HD, Switchcraft 96-point patchbay, and Digidesign C24 controller.
• Mac Pro 8-core 3Ghz computer with 4gb of RAM, used as the master recorder. 
• Pro Tools 8, Native-Instruments Komplete 5, Reason 4, and Sibelius 5 software.
• 53 gigabytes of sound effects. 
• M-Audio Keystation 88 Pro and Trigger Finger, used for MIDI programming.
• Crane Song Ltd., and DBX outboard compressors.
• Monitoring is done through a pair of Adam A7 monitors with a KRK V12 subwoofer.
• The studio is equipped with a full compliment of microphones, stands, cue system, headphones, Steinway acoustic grand piano, Yamaha drum kit, Roland Fantom keyboard, and rhythm section backline.
• Studio B is configured as a pre production room and has a Pro Tools LE setup with a superb collection of vintage analog and digital synthesizers and samplers.

Mailing Address

Campus Address

Telephone and Fax

Ph: 727-341-4360
F: 727-341-4744