In December 2009, the New York University program in music technology unveiled a new $6.5 million state-of-the-art music technology facility, a 7,500-square-foot multifunctional teaching, recording, and research space. The new Steinhardt School of Music complex is distinguished by the James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, a 25-seat control/classroom that features a fully automated 48-channel SSL console and the first Dangerous Music 10.2 surround installation in New York City. The facility includes a live performance room large enough to accommodate a small orchestra, several research laboratories, offices, a conference/seminar room, and a large iso/drum booth.

One of the most technologically advanced audio teaching facilities in the United States, the new facility greatly enhances the existing 12 studios which house the music technology program of NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Internationally recognized, the music technology program at NYU Steinhardt prepares undergraduate and graduate students for successful careers in sound engineering, computer music, audio-visual production and post-production, mastering, scoring for film and multimedia, audio for games, software development, and multimedia production.

To maintain the integrity of the facility, it was critical to soundproof the studios. EW Howell Construction Group used various building components and techniques to isolate each studio from the base building structure including layered floating floors, isolation hangers, limp mass barriers, three partition walls, multi-pane skewed glass windows, noise-lock doors, acoustic ceiling panels, and variable acoustic wall panels.