Inviting Mr. Tsukasa Miyamto, who has been engaged in sound engineering of various concerts since the dawn of PA in Japan and advocates "Sympho-camcanvas," the sound system that represents new sound space, as the lecturer, a lecture on sound engineering in the future was given.
In the lecture, various ganres of music was played by 2ch speakers and the multi-speaker sound system "Sympho-canvas" to compare the two systems. Furthermore, participants had a chance to walk around the space surrounded by 16 multi speakers placed in the room and experienced realistic feeling and atmosphere as if they are walking among orchestra players on stage. The lecture turned out to be a very valuable opportunity for the students who are studying sound engineering at the Sound Media Course.
As an extension course, the llecture was open to public.

Inviting Mr. Akira Fukada, a world class recording producer/engineer, as the lecturer, a lecture on what is going to be important in music production and recording in the future. Mr. Fukada also talked about some of his works while lisning to the works in a surround playing environment. Participants had a chance to compare listening to sound recorded in PCM, DSD, 96kHz, and 44.1kHz CD sound to actually feel the differences. The lecture turned out to be a very important opportunity for the students who are studying music production and recording at the Sound Media Course.
As an extension course, the lecture was open to public, and there were many participants.

Session recording of NUA Wind Orchestra for a new CD to be released through a Dutch label, De Haske, took place for 3 days from September 16. This recording production has been taking place annually as a collaboration project by De Haske and Nagoya University of Arts. This year, a recording team comprised of senior students and a faculty of the Sound Media Course recorded 8 wind works, played by NUA Wind Orchestra with Mr. Jan Van der Roost and Prof. Masaichi Takeuchi as conductors. It turned out to be a very important opportunity for the student who participated it.

Surround Sound Design Workshop by Mr. Masao Sawaguchi took place as an intensive course for senior student of the Sound Media Course for 4 days from August 18 to August 21. In the workshop, each student was given his/her own role such as director, composer, sound engineer, and mixing engineer, each student and they committed sound design and surround mixing for around 3 minute long visual work. Starting from scratch, the students learned about expression methods using surround system through group work by discussing production planning, engaging in composition and foley recording, and working on mixing. An article on this workshop appeared in a magazine, Pro-Sound (Octover, 2014), with a title, "Surround TERAKOYA Lab 5.1 Surround Terakoya-juku Report."

A concert presented by Nagoya University of Arts, "The Evening of Concerti" was live-recorded as a part of the class, Recording Practicum, for senior students at Shirakawa Hall, Nagoya on July 17, 2014. After preliminary studies, the students engaged in recording of piano concerto and clarinet concerto. It turned out to be a valuable experience for the students who participated it.

Since 2007, the Sound Media Course has had Tonmeister Workshop. Inviting Dipl.-Tonmeister Eberhard Hinz as a lecturer and Dipl.-Tonmeister Aki Matusch as a translator, we had the 4th workshop on session recording of woodwind quintet at Emerald Hall in the City of Hekinan, Aichi.
The workshop was presented not only for students and staffs at Nagoya University of Arts but also for public as an extensive course, and many professionals, including members of Audio Engineering Society Japan Section, from Tokyo and Osaka area also participated the workshop. In the workshop, students could actually listen to, watch, and feel how a Tonmeister solves all the problems in recording using musical techniques or using technologies, and they had a very valuable time. A report on this workshop , "Seminar Report of Nagoya University of Arts' Tonemeister Workshop 2013" appeared in a magazine, Pro Sound (April, 2014).

Inviting Mr. Norio Sato, Lecture/COncert, "6 Centuries in Music, Told by Guitar," took place at the Large Ensemble Room, the 2nd Building, Nagoya University of Arts East Campus at 6:00pm on Thursday, October 10.
Mr. Norio Sato, an active guitarist and conductor and a founder of Ensemble Nomado (a group of modern and classical music performers) gave a lecture on music history from 6 centuries ago to today by presenting works composed in each period.
In the second half of the lecture/concert, Mr. Sato also performed works by Mr. Noriyasu Tanaka and Ms. Miyuki Ito, faculties of Nagoya University of Arts
It was a valuable opportunity for the students to be able to learn the flow of ages in 6 centuries of music. The lecture/concert was open to the public and many people participated it.