SoundGirls Podcast

Petra Randewijk: Netherlands-based independent sound engineer

Petra Randewijk is an independent sound engineer from the Netherlands. She has been working in sound for over 20 years, mostly in live sound. Last year she toured in Europe, the UK and North America with Imogen Heap as FOH engineer and PM. When she is home she works at shows in Doornroosje in Nijmegen, and at some of the many Dutch festivals with awesome artists. Or for any other show that consists of good music, nice people, a technical challenge, or, even better, all three.

Recording has always been quite a passion project for Petra, which she does mostly at her own studio. After taking a week-long seminar with Sylvia Massy, she got inspired to make her recording sessions more adventurous which resulted in a lot of exciting recording sessions, and still more to come.

Alicia Martin: touring audio engineer

Alicia is a former band director turned touring audio person. She mostly works on the roving versions of Broadway shows, and can't wait for the pandemic to end so we all can run around and make art again. In the forced "free time" of COVID-19, she has completed all but one class in macroeconomics on a double major AS degree in accounting and business administration to go with her prior degrees in Music Education and Show Production and Touring. She's also learning welding, plumbing, and sewing so she can make her own masks! Alicia loves school, dogs, all things Star Wars, and making musicals for the masses.

Hannah Brodrick: UK-based freelance sound engineer

Hannah is a UK-based freelance sound engineer with 10 years experience in the live music industry. She has toured the world taking on a wide variety of roles from selling T-shirts in Tokyo for Kula Shaker to co-ordinating radio frequencies in arena's for Noel Gallagher and believes variety in work and life is the key to happiness. In 2018 she co-founded the organisation Women In Live Music with the aim to equalise the gender balance across the music industry.

Lenise Bent: Audio Engineer & Producer

Lenise Bent has enjoyed a long career as an audio engineer and producer, honing her skills on many iconic records including “Aja” by Steely Dan and “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp. She is the first female engineer to receive a platinum album for Blondie’s “AutoAmerican” album which includes the very first hit rap song with music, “Rapture”. Lenise is also a post-production audio professional, specializing in recording and editing foley sound effects for many films and animated series and has traveled the world for Dreamworks supervising the foreign dialogue recording and producing the vocals for such animated features as “Shrek”, “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron” and “Shrek 2”. She also archives and repairs audio, instructs, consults and holds workshops for audio students and singer/songwriters. She is a long-standing member of many audio organizations including the Audio Engineering Society, SoundGirls, and the Producers and Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy. Though mostly working in digital recording formats, Lenise recently produced and engineered an all-analog recording with blues/rock/Indy band Primal Kings, recording to 2” tape, mixing to 1⁄2” and cut to vinyl from tape. A “triple A" legacy quality production, recorded and mixed completely out of the box. To know more about Lenise Bent, visit lenisebent.com.

 

Jill Purdy: supervising sound & dialogue/ADR editor

As a prominent Supervising Sound and Dialogue/ADR Editor in the film and television industries of both Canada and the United States, Jill Purdy has an extraordinary record of achievements and awards spanning over two decades. After graduating from both Queen’s University and Sheridan College and initiating her career via a successful internship with Sound Dogs Toronto, Jill gained a distinguished reputation quickly and has continued to thrive at the top of her field. Jill was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018. In addition to 2018’s Oscar-Nominated “The Shape of Water”, Jill’s credits include “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”, “mother!”, “Molly’s Game”, “Hands of Stone”, “Snow White and the Huntsman”, “Black Swan” and “On the Basis of Sex.” She is currently co-supervising Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley”.