I want to pursue a career in designing electronic musical instruments.(esp. synth) I have done my Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. I have also been learning Indian music for about 10 years.
I wish to start MS in Sep 2001 in USA.
Kindly advise me as to which major I should opt for and the Universities offering such courses.
Waiting eagerly for a positive response...

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Purva

Woah! High hopes there! Most of us are players, not engineers - more power to you. Please make your first progect a keyboard that will satisfy ALL of us here at the BBS! We're fussy - so put everything in it, make it light, loud and cheap - we'll all get one !

purva13:
My guess is that you'll find the private sector more fertile ground than university programs. Get a job at one of the synth manufacturers.

Most university electronic music labs are painfully out-of-date, as they still mostly like to play those wonderful wooden and brass instruments us Synth Zone folks are in so much of a hurry to emulate and eliminate. Most university electronics programs won't give two hoots about music.

Some possible exceptions might be the "looser" music schools like Berkley or University of North Texas, though my personal experience is a little out of date - I'm a failed music theory master's candidate from UNT, but that was, uh, several decades ago. (Synthesizers back then hadn't discovered digital, or even polyphony.)

My advise, however, is still to get on at a manufacturer as a design engineer. I love universities, but I'd be surprised if any are doing much to prepare folks for what you want to do.