{"id":13302,"date":"2019-08-25T07:34:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T12:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/?p=13302"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:11:57","slug":"berklee-online-certificate-was-a-stepping-stone-for-mpe-student-josh-sebek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/berklee-online-certificate-was-a-stepping-stone-for-mpe-student-josh-sebek\/","title":{"rendered":"Berklee Online Certificate was a Stepping Stone for MP&E Student Josh Sebek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This fall, Josh Sebek will return to the Berklee campus in Boston to start his sophomore year as a Music Production and Engineering (MP&E) student. Though this is Josh\u2019s second year on campus, he is no stranger to taking classes through Berklee. Right out of high school, Josh completed his Advanced Certificate in Music Production using Pro Tools<\/a>, a stepping stone that led him to attend Berklee\u2019s Boston campus.
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\u201cComing out of high school I was like, \u2018Okay, well, I\u2019m not super ready to go [to Boston] and make that kind of a move, so I’m going to do some online classes,\u2019\u201d says Josh. \u201cI found the certificate online, and I ended up taking it and falling in love with it.\u201d
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He had also fallen in love with the Boston campus when he first toured Berklee on a field trip with his high school jazz band, but Josh had to consider a few more things than the average college freshman: he has a visual impairment called incomplete achromatopsia. 
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\u201cIt\u2019s a bit of a rare one, but it\u2019s basically a slew of things,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m colorblind, I\u2019m very nearsighted, I\u2019m very sensitive to light . . . The cones in my eyes don\u2019t work. They don\u2019t receive anything, so I\u2019m stuck with everything very bright. It\u2019s like an oversaturated camera all the time, so I wear tinted glasses to combat that as well as the nearsightedness. My eyes are always shaking, so reading sheet music has always been a problem. It kind of sucks, but it makes me who I am and I wouldn\u2019t trade it in if I had the chance to.\u201d 
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Josh grew up in a small town in Ontario, Canada and found ways to pursue the arts, though they were not always easy to find in his sports-dominated high school. He played the drums, breakdanced, and discovered his passion for producing electronic music. 
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\u201cI really loved the whole music software side of things and being able to create my own stuff,\u201d says Josh. \u201cSo, I started doing that for a while and trying to find my voice. Funny enough, it went from producing dubstep to downtempo chillout stuff. It\u2019s not even remotely close to the genre that I started with. After that, I just went, \u2018Oh, I want to look into more of this production stuff.\u2019\u201d
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