{"id":12594,"date":"2015-01-25T22:38:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T03:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/?p=12594"},"modified":"2015-02-01T00:07:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T05:07:29","slug":"introducing-mmmmaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/introducing-mmmmaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing… Mmmmaven"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No, this isn’t the name of a hip new downtown restaurant or a particularly delectable new band. Oddly, the word maven has a Hebrew origin, meaning “one who understands,” as in an expert who passes their knowledge on to others, so I suppose it’s the perfect name for this Central Square, Cambridge-based music studio and DJ\/production school. If you’re sitting there thinking that hip-hop beats and scratching techniques aren’t the most widely covered topics on this blog, you’d be right, but we’re giving our music creators of the machine persuasion a little love this year. After all, computers are people, too.<\/p>\n

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Mmmmaven offers instruction in DJ techniques and electronic music production. They have state-of-the-art production labs and the latest technology and software. They also offer a career development program, youth programs, summer camps and classes conducted in Spanish. Their classes meet twice a week and on weekends. No prior experience is necessary. Students range from college students to older adults and professional musicians wanting to pump up their skills. The styles of music explored are as diverse as the students and include all kinds of house music, hip-hop, country, electro-swing, soundtracks and tunes for video games. Mmmmaven sponsors special events and an annual electronic music festival. For a comprehensive profile about this unique music production school, check out this special on Chronicle.<\/p>\n