Alumni, friends of Western and members of the Fairhaven College community gathered over the summer to celebrate the opening of the Salish Sea Studio. The much-anticipated, state-of-the-art audio studio has been years in the making and was made possible by the generosity of Roy Hanson, ’75, B.A., Fairhaven interdisciplinary concentration.
A new creative space for sound
The Salish Sea Studio is open in Fairhaven College
Roy Hanson, '75
The studio is now available for students to record and engineer music and engage in cultural audio projects such as capturing Indigenous languages and oral histories.
"Salish Sea Studio" by Roy Hanson
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Former owner of Hanson Research Group, Hanson was moved to make this gift out of his love of music and his love of Fairhaven College. In addition to his career in pharmaceutical research, Hanson is a guitarist who plays rock blues, traditional folk, and Irish folk music.
“Part of what you can do in a music studio, and recording, is have impact on the world and try and make this a better place,” Hanson says. “That's really what I'm all about."
