Students Interning at Live Music Venues, Recording Studios, and Albany International Airport

Dan La Plante, Music Audio Technology major

Interning at Lark Hall, Albany, N.Y.

Dan is setting up the stage before live shows, doing sound checks with the artists, making sure their individual monitor mixes are good, and making live sound adjustments during performances. Their internship supervisor at Lark Hall is Zech Allen who is also one of their professors in the School of Music!

Dan: “My internship is providing really good hands-on experience. I’m working under a professional and working with professional musicians. In the recording studio at the College, I have learned so much and recorded myself and other musicians. I had to put together a portfolio to transfer for my bachelor’s degree and I did all of that through the studio on campus. With my internship, I’m using different technology so I’m learning even more. I have also made great connections for future potential opportunities.”

Kalix Sausville, Music Audio Technology major

Interning at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, N.Y.
Music Audio Technology students are also interning at White Lake Studios, Empire Live Albany, Only Way Out Studios, and Rockwell Productions.

When the 6 p.m. news is broadcast every Monday on WOOC 105.3 FM from the studios at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Kalix Sausville might be behind the scenes, but he is an important part of making the whole program run smoothly. Kalix is checking audio levels, muting and unmuting microphones, making sure the intro and outro music is playing, and more, so that the whole show is broadcast without a hiccup. Kalix has mixed and mastered audio projects in the Vianna-Brignola Recording Studio in the School of Music, but serving as an audio engineer for a live radio broadcast is something new.

Kalix: “I had never done anything radio wise before, so this is really fun. It’s just so good to get my hands in the field. It’s teaching me how to use what I have learned at SUNY Schenectady and apply it to a job and places I didn’t think I would be. It’s giving me more experience at something live and a console I may not know and getting me out into the community. When I first started in the Music Audio Technology program, I had been a performer for 15 years and never touched audio equipment. But everything I’ve been taught over these past two years has built such a solid foundation for me and I feel really confident going into the workforce after this.”

Fiyinfoluwa Ogunwale and Jonathan Bridgnanan
Aviation Science - Non-Pilot Administration and Management majors

Interning at Albany International Airport

Fiyinfoluwa and Jonathan are shadowing airport operations professionals to learn more about ground service and security operations & how different departments of aviation management intersect with each other in order for smooth airport operations. 

Fiyinfoluwa: “The advantage of this internship at Albany International Airport has been getting hands-on experience and seeing the day-to-day activities that keep an airport running smoothly. It has given me practical knowledge on different parts of the industry preparing me for my career goal of working in aviation management, focusing on the operational side of industry. I aspire to reach a leadership role one day in this industry where I can oversee airports and airlines and contribute to the safety and efficiency of all passengers.”

Jonathan: “You experience what workers do every day at the airport and parts of the airport that you can’t see as a passenger which broadens our knowledge of airport operations. It’s a good elective to have so people looking for airport management can try out this internship and gain the knowledge firsthand of all that goes on in an airport. After I graduate I plan to start my career in airport management either in Albany, JFK, Laguardia or Newark.”