SoundGirls Podcast

The Goodbye Episode: Hosts Daria Lipinska and Katie Pagacz Pass the Torch

In this episode of The SoundGirls Podcast, freelance sound engineer + venue technician Daria Lipinska and newly graduated film student Katie Pagacz interview each other and goof around and thank everyone profusely.  There are two Legally Blonde references and one Harry Potter reference.  Most importantly, they pass the torch to the lovely new host who will ring in the new season of The SoundGirls Podcast.  Woo!

SoundGirls Living History Project - Sherry Klein - Interviewed by Lenise Bent

SHERRY KLEIN CAS – Re-Recording Mixer Sherry Klein is a Post Production Re-Recording Mixer for Television and Film. She is currently living in Los Angeles, Ca. working with Smart Post Sound. Some of her credits include New Amsterdam, Queen of the South, Burn Notice, Sons of Anarchy, and The Shield. Sherry started her career as a musician, her dream was always to study music and have a successful career in the music industry. She attended Webster College in St. Louis, Missouri studying classical music composition and then Jazz Arranging and Composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Her early years were spent “on the other side of the glass” as a musician, but the realization of how recording could manipulate sound slowly took over her passions and she soon began exploring her fascination with all things audio. She left the east coast for Los Angeles and spent 10 years with Larrabee Studios as a Recording Engineer until 1983 when she moved into the field of Post Production Mixing. Throughout her career, she has worked with an array of outstanding talent in both music, television and film. Her passions for music and sound have only grown throughout the years and she enjoys mentoring and giving back to the industry whenever possible. She is currently on the Board of Directors for both the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) and the Entertainment Industry Professionals Mentoring Alliance (EIPMA).. She is also the Chairperson of the CAS Student Recognition Award ( SRA) SoundGirls Feature Profile on Sherry https://soundgirls.org/sherry-klein1/ Interviewed by Lenise Bent Lenise Bent is one of the first women audio engineers & honed her skills on many iconic records including “Aja” by Steely Dan and “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp. She is the first woman engineer to receive a platinum album for Blondie’s “AutoAmerican” album which includes “The Tide is High” and 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 and consults for singer/songwriters. Lenise is a long-standing member of the Audio Engineering Society, the Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy and a voting member of NARAS. She is also a proud member SoundGirls, Women’s Audio Mission (WAM), Women in Music, the prestigious Hollywood Sapphire Group, The Blues Foundation, IASA (International Association of Sound Archivists) and ARSC (Assoc. of Recorded Sound Collectors). 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, all analog and completely out of the box. To know more about Lenise Bent go to her website at www.lenisebent.com SoundGirls Feature Profile Lenise Bent https://soundgirls.org/giving-back-to... SoundGirls Living History Project Lenise Bent Part 1 https://youtu.be/lNM6seMROaI SoundGirls Living History Project Lenise Bent Part 2 https://youtu.be/0hCLBaqz51s

 

Pickup where we left off here.

SoundGirls Living History Project - Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato Interviewed by Caroline Losneck

Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato is a professional concert sound engineer who has worked for some of the most recognizable names in music for almost three decades. Starting with her first tour with the band Spin Doctors in 1992, Michelle has been touring the world as an independent engineer, mixing for a diverse slate of artists and musicians including Janet Jackson, Indigo Girls, Jewel, Gwen Stefani, Ke$ha, Mr. Big, Adam Lambert, Melissa Etheridge, Goo Goo Dolls, Styx, Elvis Costello and more. In 2013, she co-founded SoundGirls to create a supportive community for women working in professional audio. In 2015, Michelle was inducted into Full Sail University’s Hall of Fame. Most recently, Michelle launched Mixing Music Live, online course designed for students aspiring to learn about Live Sound and Mixing.

More about Michelle:

https://soundgirls.org/its-about-the-music-michelle-sabolchick-pettinato/

mixingmusiclive.com

Caroline Losneck is an independent documentarian, filmmaker, radio producer, and installation artist in Maine. Her radio work has been featured on NPR, Marketplace, BBC, Maine Public Radio, podcasts, and immersive installations. Her documentary film work has been featured in the New York Times, Camden Film International Film Festival, and museums and festivals around the country. She has received Maine Arts Commission, Warhol Foundation, and other grants for her documentary film, storytelling, and immersive installation work.

More about Caroline https://www.carolinelosneck.com/

 

Watch the rest of the episode here: https://youtu.be/n4RmElb220E?t=1827

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SoundGirls Living History Project - Dr. Rebecca Mercuri

The SoundGirls Living History project is a collection of interviews with audio industry veterans. The project seeks to highlight the careers and achievements of women and underrepresented groups in audio. Interviews are conducted by SoundGirls members, with guidance from experienced interviewers in the audio industry.

Interviews will be available publicly in our Living History Project and for educational use and research and through our social media, YouTube channel, and The SoundGirls Podcast.

The oral history interviews are typically unedited and will be archived in their original form.

Dr. Rebecca Mercuri's life and career have been an eclectic mix of music and technology, with Bachelor's degrees in Classical Guitar (University of the Arts), and Computer Science (Penn State), Masters degrees in Science (Drexel) and Engineering (UPenn), and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Systems (UPenn). She also holds honorary alumna status from Harvard in recognition of her fellowship year at Radcliffe Institute. In the 1980s, following her undergraduate education, she became an Associate Member of Technical Staff at RCA's David Sarnoff Research Center. Projects there included the development of music software for a personal computer project and the design of the first computer-controlled interactive software and hardware for the RCA VideoDisc player. While in graduate school, during the 1990s, Rebecca was employed at AT&T Bell Laboratories where she pioneered the integration of a holophonic audio system into a collaborative and interactive virtual videoconferencing system. Later, at the University of Pennsylvania, her dissertation, "Electronic Vote Tabulation: Checks & Balances" received immediate attention, as it had been defended 11 days before the 2000 Bush v. Gore election. Dr. Mercuri continues to provide expert testimony on election controversies, and her recommendations about better ways to ensure accuracy, integrity, and believability in election results have been sought and adopted internationally. Notable Software, Inc., the company Rebecca founded (in 1985) to develop and market educational and music-related software under the Apple Certified Developer Program, now (since 2005) provides a wide range of digital investigative and expert witness services for civil and criminal matters. M.O.R.E project below the video: http://n2re.org/m-o-r-e-project

Interview By: Christina Milinusic an audio professional who has provided live sound reinforcement since founding her company Unity Sound in 2005. She is the current chapter head for SoundGirls Alberta and has experience working as an electronics technician, technical director, and recordist.

Full episode - picking up where we left off here: https://youtu.be/VAOEL-VR6yc?t=1863

https://soundgirls.org/soundgirls-living-history-project/

Chrissy Sara CTS-I, DSCE, DCME: Senior Sales Support Engineer & AV Educator

Keeping whole AV solution goals in mind, Chrissy thrives not just in digital signage but also in presentation training of Pro AV technology. From her start in Broadcast TV in '09 to her current home in Pro AV, Chrissy has spent her 12-year career gaining skills in technical training design, video presentation, video signal transport, IoT connectivity, AV system control, video system commissioning, and technical support.

Chrissy Sara’s latest work focuses on supporting Sony Pro Electronics' B2B division with a concentration in IoT digital signage solutions, Hybrid presentation solutions, internal technical education, and fostering Central US consultant relationships. 

Chrissy has achieved a well-rounded understanding of the five key aspects of the AV industry (audio, video, control, networking, and project management) through her experience teaching AVIXA’s CTS and CTS-I ANSI certified certification programs. Sara achieved the Educator of the Year award in 2021 from AVIXA's InfoComm 2021 in Orlando, FL.

Check out our IG @SoundGirlsPod for some furry friend photos! 

100th Episode

This is our 100th episode, and to celebrate we have compiled a series of clips from past interviews that focus on one topic: Advice. 

Clips from the following episodes:

Wesley Devore https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-f6gft-11e4101

Barbara Adams https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-w4gum-11da88f

Megan Clement https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cf3mc-11b211c

Chelsea Body https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-r6bg7-119e745

Sherry Klein https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-dy4v9-118a7b7

Jeanne Montalvo https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-qw4dj-117ff03

Shalini Agarwal https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-4a4bk-11769dc

Joanna Fang https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-694eu-115c492

Juno Black https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-bpyjt-10d32a6

 

Wesley DeVore: Marketing Manager, Musician, and Author

Wesley DeVore is a 25-year music industry veteran who got her start as a studio assistant for Nine Inch Nails at Nothing Studios in New Orleans. She has worked as an audio engineer, music producer, film composer, and contractor, wiring several professional studios including Central Command in North Hollywood. For the last 15 years, DeVore has worked for PreSonus and is currently the Marketing Manager for the popular audio brand. She is also the author of the Clementine Toledano Mysteries. 

https://www.wedevore.com

Barbara Adams: audio engineer, educator, and Philadelphia SoundGirls Chapter Head

Barbara Adams is an audio engineer and educator with over twenty-five years of experience in the music industry. She specializes in live sound and production management. Her strong and varied experience also includes recording engineer, stage management, and artist management.

Barbara is a Lecturer Professor at Rowan University teaching Sound Reinforcement and Audio Recording in their Music Industry Program. She also is the booking manager for Rowan Music Group, the program’s record label, and artist management services. By night she is busy as an engineer and production manager working as a freelance Engineer/System Tech for several production companies and regional bands touring the NorthEast and Mid-Atlantic states. As the Soundgirls Philadelphia chapter president, she is always looking for ways to help mentor and guide new engineers in the field of live sound and bring together the Philadelphia community of soundgirls. And as if this wasn’t enough, she is the mom to a very busy teenage son.

Patrice Scanlon: classically trained musician, composer, sound designer, electronic musician, & audio engineer

Patrice Scanlon is a classically trained musician, composer, sound designer, electronic musician, and audio engineer, working in the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Florida. She has 18 years of experience teaching and performing electronic/computer music, audio engineering, and interactive multimedia composition. Patrice also develops live audio processing and interactive software with Max, which has become her instrument for solo and collaborative performances.

https://www.patricescanlon.com

Jayshree Mallaya: International Women’s Day Special Episode featuring Over the Walls Together

Jayshree Mallaya is a South African born in the beautiful seaside city of Durban. She is an award-winning businesswoman and community worker as well as a best-selling co-author of her book, Palm Reading & Positive Thinking (with her sister Mellissa Mallaya Pandya.) Jayshree also has a blog entitled  "My Blessings In Life”. Since 2017 Jayshree has been the co-founder of a nonprofit organization Over The Walls Together. Where They create music to trigger communication for social good.

#wearyourcrown

www.overthewallstogether.org

Over The Walls Together Foundation brings you an inspiring beat to urge people to Join Hands All Around The World and join us in our mission to end Violence against women and girls. Our goals are to encourage and initiate change and positive communication between men, women, and children to “Break The Silence” and Support, Heal & Empower each other.