Episodes
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Joanna Fang: Emmy award winning Foley artist and sound editor
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Tuesday Dec 28, 2021
Joanna Fang is an Emmy award winning Foley artist and sound editor. An alumna of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Joanna fell in love with sound design and Foley during her studies at Tisch and after graduating with honors in 2014, she started apprenticing and performing with Foley artist Leslie Bloome at Alchemy Post Sound in Peekskill, NY. Seven years and hundreds of credits later, Joanna transitioned into game development and has since been hired by Sony Playstation where she co-leads their new Foley department and is their first in-house Foley Artist in over 15 years.
Through her Foley sounds, she has had the privilege of slinging webs as Spider-Man, fighting misogynists in Promising Young Woman, and even crashing a bus for Ira Glass on This American Life. Her Foley art spans across several media from traditional narrative films, documentaries, and television series to triple A games, virtual reality and experimental pieces. In 2016, she was recognized by the Television Academy as the first openly transgender woman of color to win a Primetime Emmy for her Foley and sound editorial work on A&E's Cartel Land.
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Katrine Amsler is a Danish composer, musician, producer, instrument builder and sound-artist based in Copenhagen. Amsler has a master's in improvisation and composition from the Music Academy in Malmö, Sweden. As a composer and sound artist she contributes to different types of audio-visual projects, latest as a sound artist working for the danish composer Martin Stig Andersen (Limbo, Inside) on the 2 Wolfenstein games : ”The New Colossus” and ”Youngblood” (Machine Games) and on the highly acclaimed ”Control” by Remedy Entertainment. As a musician and producer she works primarily with experimental electric/acoustic trio Shitney, android cinema orchestra Television Pickup and as a solo artist.
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Heather Kirby: Mastering Engineer & Audio Educator
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Heather Kirby is a Mastering Engineer and Audio Educator. She owns and operates her studio “Dreamlands Mastering” in Prince Edward County Ontario where she works with artists to complete their creative visions and prepares their music to be unveiled to listeners. Heather found her passion for mastering after a winding freelance career in engineering and mixing for music, film/TV post, and live TV broadcast. A longtime advocate for gender equity in the audio industry, she developed and produced a funded music production workshop event for women, trans and non- binary folks in Toronto called Resampled in 2013. As an educator, Heather has been teaching sound and music production courses to undergraduate and graduate students with X University’s RTA School of Media for the past nine years. Heather is also a musician and member of the bands Ohbijou and Vag Halen.
Website:
www.dreamlandsmastering.com
Insta:
https://www.instagram.com/dreamlands_mastering/
@dreamlands_Mastering
IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5523035/
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
ICYMI 2020 REPLAY: This episode features an interview with Noelle Scaggs, co-lead vocalist of Alt-Pop Band Fitz And The Tantrums. Diversify the Stage unveils the Inclusion Initiative, dedicated to addressing diversity and promoting access to a unified database for industry professionals.
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