Miller Arts Scholars
Miller Arts Scholars
Elie Bashkow

Elie Bashkow

Semester of Mini-grant
Year of Mini-grant
2021
Disciplines(s)
Grant Description
Coming from a live music background as a multi-instrumentalist, the pandemic has significantly changed my personal relationship with music. Live shows no longer being an option, I was forced to seriously readjust so I dove into producing, engineering, mixing, and songwriting. I have spent countless hours in the last year studying everything from dynamic range compression to the ideal mic placement techniques for recording instruments and voices to how to build energy within a song’s chorus to how to get a nervous artist to relax and give their best performance.
Original Proposal
Proposal Outcome
Title
Microphone
Semester of Mini-grant
Year of Mini-grant
2022
Disciplines(s)
Grant Description
Covering the walls of pro studios, these simple contraptions are basically just sound absorbing squares that keep frequencies from bouncing around unevenly, thereby fixing the phase cancellation, room nodes, dips, and many other acoustics issues that plague audio engineers.
Original Proposal
Proposal Outcome
Title
Acoustic Panels
Semester of Mini-grant
Year of Mini-grant
2022
Disciplines(s)
Grant Description
A control surface is a digital controller with real faders, knobs, and buttons that connects digitally to a computer and lets you adjust the parameters of digital processors with a real physical interface.
Original Proposal
Proposal Outcome
Title
PreSonus FaderPort 8 8-channel Production Controller
Class Year
2023
Disciplines(s)
Arts Award Type
Proposal Outcome
Faculty Advisor
Ted Coffey
Department
Music
Grant Description
I am proposing recording a four song EP in studio over the summer and into the fall. I would like to take a quality over quantity approach with this project, trying to craft each song with the utmost care and cutting no corners to make sure it is truly the best sounding work I can create.
Original Proposal
Title
Recording A Four Song EP
Class Year
2023
Disciplines(s)
Arts Award Type
Proposal Outcome
Faculty Advisor
Ted Coffey
Department
Music
Grant Description
I would like to spend the summer in Nashville, building professional connections and expanding my network outside of Virginia.
Original Proposal
Title
Summer in Nashville, TN

Elie Bashkow is a first year music major and musician. He specializes in instrumental performance and recording on violin, mandolin, and guitar as well as live and electronic production, songwriting, and ethnomusicology. Elie grew up surrounded by many types of music and loves exploring where the particular virtues of very different genres can meet and mix to create something interesting and beautiful. After high school, Elie spent a year working as a cook and playing music. During this year, he joined the rock band Orion and the Melted Crayons and spent time studying Cuban jazz in Havana, Cuba. Besides making music, Elie helps run the UVa sustainable fashion startup Arbitrage, engages with social and political issues, and roams the world looking for good food. 
 

2023