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TSU Team Wins Shure Recording Competition
Shure Incorporated has announced that a three-member team from the music department at Texas State University is this year's Grand Prize Winner of the fourth annual "Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition." The three-student team of Joel Cowen, Adam Brisbin and Jordan Lott, with faculty advisor, Mark Erickson, won this year's Shure contest with an original composition by Graham Wilkinson and the Underground Township entitled "Let It Go."
The judges for the competition were Chuck Ainlay, Joe Barresi, Frank Filipetti, Mike Fraser, Chris Kimsey, Chuck Meyers, Elliot Scheiner and Al Schmitt, who evaluated the recordings on their overall fidelity, clarity, and sonic balance-as well as creativity in selection and placement of microphones.
In addition to the Texas State University team, there were teams competing from Anderson University, Biola University, Butler University, California State University (Chico), Middle Tennessee State University, Ohio University, The Hartt School at the University of Hartford, the University of New Haven and the University of South Carolina School of Music.
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