Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
Wilce Mascary from the Record Co gives the MIDI Association a tour.
The Record Co. is a Boston-based nonprofit music workspace that provides affordable access to recording studios, rehearsal rooms, production suites, community space, and training programs for artists, producers, engineers, and students. Its mission is closely aligned with access, education, and community-based music creation.
A particularly relevant program is ARPs for All, a collaboration between The Alan R. Pearlman Foundation and The Record Co. The program gives musicians access to rare vintage ARP synthesizers, including a publicly available ARP 2500 collection, so artists can learn, perform, and record with historically important electronic instruments that would normally be inaccessible.
This could be important to The MIDI Association because The Record Co. sits at the intersection of music technology, education, access, history, and hands-on creative practice. For MIDI.org, it could be a strong example of how legacy electronic instruments, modern MIDI workflows, affordable studio access, and community education can work together.
MIDI Association relevance:
* Education: A practical partner for MIDI learning, synthesis education, and music-production workshops.
* Accessibility and inclusion: Their affordable-access mission aligns with MASSIG and the MIDI Association’s broader goal of enabling more people to make music.
* History of electronic music: ARPs for All connects directly to the history of synthesizers, electronic instruments, and the creative culture that helped make MIDI necessary.
Wilce Mascary from the Record Co gives the MIDI Association a tour.
The Record Co. is a Boston-based nonprofit music workspace that provides affordable access to recording studios, rehearsal rooms, production suites, community space, and training programs for artists, producers, engineers, and students. Its mission is closely aligned with access, education, and community-based music creation.
A particularly relevant program is ARPs for All, a collaboration between The Alan R. Pearlman Foundation and The Record Co. The program gives musicians access to rare vintage ARP synthesizers, including a publicly available ARP 2500 collection, so artists can learn, perform, and record with historically important electronic instruments that would normally be inaccessible.
This could be important to The MIDI Association because The Record Co. sits at the intersection of music technology, education, access, history, and hands-on creative practice. For MIDI.org, it could be a strong example of how legacy electronic instruments, modern MIDI workflows, affordable studio access, and community education can work together.
MIDI Association relevance:
* Education: A practical partner for MIDI learning, synthesis education, and music-production workshops.
* Accessibility and inclusion: Their affordable-access mission aligns with MASSIG and the MIDI Association’s broader goal of enabling more people to make music.
* History of electronic music: ARPs for All connects directly to the history of synthesizers, electronic instruments, and the creative culture that helped make MIDI necessary.
