The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation is adding to its roster of educational workshops for teenagers with new classes in audio engineering.

The introductory audio engineering courses occur in the multimedia arts technology production studio, which is a separate facility for student projects and classes. The electronic music lab is a state ...

Three levels of classes in audio engineering begin the first week of March, with room for eight students per class. Kell said the addition was an achievement for the RME.

Sound Lab audio-engineering classes, the only program of its kind in the Quad-Cities, will start again in January at River Music Experience, 129 Main St., Davenport.

Her high school allowed students to take audio engineering classes at a local college, an opportunity Bognanno couldn’t pass up. “That was my only access to get into anything [musical].

Like with many STEM-oriented fields, music production and sound engineering are dominated by men—though that’s very slowly changing.