SoundGirls Podcast

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.

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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.

Ai-Ling Lee: Academy Award-Nominated sound editor & mixer

Ai-Ling Lee was born in Singapore where she studied music audio engineering. After two years of mixing and editing commercials and music, she moved to Los Angeles in
1998 to pursue a career in sound design for feature films. Since then she has worked as a sound designer, re-recording mixer, and sound supervisor on a variety of films including JoJo Rabbit, La La Land, First Man, Deadpool, Wild, Maze Runner, and Buena Vista Social Club. Ai-Ling has had the opportunity to work with directors Damien Chazelle, Taika Waititi, Jean-Marc Vallée, Noah Hawley, Wes Ball, Cameron Crowe, Gus Van Sant, and Sam Raimi, to name a few. She has been nominated for four Academy Awards (editing and mixing), two BAFTA, nine MPSE awards, and won a CAS award for Best Sound Mixing.

 

Megan Clement: UK-Based Freelance Sound Engineer

After experiencing her exciting first gig as a young teenager, Megan Clement has been inclined to pursue a career in the live music industry. She found her calling as a freelance Sound Engineer. Based in the UK, she has been inspired by the idea of touring and traveling to different parts of the world, with the aim to visit every continent. And what better way to do this than with great music and crew. The majority of her work is for audio production companies with my most recent role as the Monitor Tech for Cliff Richard. She is a passionate Mons Tech and enjoys problem-solving incorporated with RF and stage patch. But she also enjoys the physical demand of positions such as PA tech. The most exciting part of the job for her will always be that fantastic feeling you get whilst mixing extraordinary musicians, for reactive audiences in great venues. She is looking forward to further expanding her experience and knowledge in live audio once touring fully returns.

Kim Warnick: Executive Director of Calling All Crows #HereForTheMusic

Kim Warnick has served as the Executive Director of Calling All Crows since 2019 and was a 2021 She Rocks Award recipient for her sexual violence prevention work in the music industry through the #HereForTheMusic campaign. With more than a decade of sexual violence prevention and response experience and 8 years in the music industry, she is uniquely situated to design and lead this work. She has opted to get off the road and settle into Long Beach, CA, after spending most of her life in NH and Boston. She holds a BA in Sociology from Harvard University, where her studies focused on social movements, organizational culture, and conflict and peacebuilding, including an intensive study in Rwanda.

Chelsea Body: freelance audio engineer & sound editor

Chelsea is a freelance audio engineer and sound editor based in Toronto. A classically trained multi instrumentalist and post-production professional, she lends her skills to a varied selection of creative projects. Currently she can be found working among the foley team on critically acclaimed productions such as ‘Dune (2021)’ and ‘Nightmare Alley (2021)’.

Robyn Raymond: owner of Red Spade Records and vinyl lathe cutter

Robyn Raymond is the owner of Red Spade Records, a super boutique specialty record production firm. Raymond’s interest in music began early with Raymond touring across Canada as the lead singer of rock band 40 Gun Flagship. She transitioned into an artist support role with The Union Ltd. touring with several acts including Motley Crue and Sam Smith. After a brief exit from the music industry to work with the Canadian Olympic Bobsled, Hockey and Skeleton teams, Raymond returned to the industry. Rather than going back on the road, she shifted her interest to vinyl records and the complex art of lathe cutting. 

Today Raymond works out of the famed Lacquer Channel Mastering in Toronto, the oldest mastering studio in Canada. She holds the distinction of being the only woman record cutter in the entire nation of Canada. As a lathe cutter, a specialized role in the process of vinyl record manufacturing, Raymond has worked on projects with everyone from respected labels like Dine Alone Records to Italian luxury fashion brand Prada. A believer in bringing more women into technical fields in the music industry, Raymond takes every opportunity to speak at industry events.

Sherry Klein: re-recording mixer for television and film

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 7 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.

Jeanne Montalvo: Grammy-nominated audio engineer and radio producer

Jeanne Montalvo is a Grammy-nominated audio engineer and radio producer. In 2017, she was nominated for a Grammy as Mastering Engineer for Vladimir Horowitz: The Unreleased Live Recordings, and her recording of Multiverse by Bobby Sanabria's Latin Jazz Big Band was nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album at the 2012 Grammys. She has worked with Spike Lee, Al Kooper, Ivy Queen, Making Movies with Ruben Blades, and more. 

She broke into radio after receiving her Masters in Music Technology from NYU, and has worked for National Public Radio, Bloomberg Radio, the Duolingo podcast and projects for the New York Times and Sony. She is also creator of "Live from Latino USA"  a live video series that features Latinx talent from Jessie Reyez to Jose Feliciano and is currently treasurer for the NYC chapter of AES.

Shalini Agarwal: Toronto-based production sound mixer and sound designer

Shalini Agarwal is a Production Sound Mixer and Sound Designer based in Toronto with over 15 years of experience on a wide range of projects in India & Canada.

She has worked on films helmed by acclaimed Directors such as Danny Boyle, Ang Lee, John Madden, Brad Bird, Angelina Jolie and Mira Nair.

First They Killed My Father, After The Wedding, Jobs, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mission Impossible (Ghost Protocol), Highway and Phobia are some of the feature films for which Shalini has recorded sync sound.

Shalini studied sound at the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune. She then assisted eminent sound mixers such as Resul Pookutty (CAS, Oscar, BAFTA, MPSE Golden Reel winner) and Drew Kunin (Oscar nominee) on notable films like Slumdog Millionaire, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Life of Pi and Eat Pray Love.

Shalini is a member of The International Association of Women in Radio & Television (IAWRT) and has conducted sound workshops at the 14th Asian Women’s Film Festival, 2018. She was also selected for the Berlinale Talents Sound Studio program at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2019.

She has recently finished recording sound for The Kings of Napa, an upcoming Warner Brothers & Oprah Winfrey Network show.

Shalini is also a singer-songwriter, plays the guitar & produces electronic music in her free time. She plans to release an EP of original music next year.

Tonebenders ”Re-podcast”: The Power Of The Dog with Tara Webb & Leah Katz

Tim Muirhead from Tonebenders talks with Tara Webb (Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer) and Leah Katz (Dialog Supervisor) about the sound of Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog. They tell him about defining a character through sound, building expansive landscapes and using ADR to refine the story.

 

Tonebenders explores the ideas and techniques that go into the sound 
design of our favourite films, series and Games, by hosting in depth 
discussions with the talented audio pros that make them. The podcast 
is hosted and produced by Rene Coronado (Dallas), Teresa Morrow 
(Toronto) and Timothy Muirhead (Toronto), 3 audio professionals with 
very different backgrounds and specialties. Using over 70 years of 
combined knowledge and experience to create a thoughtful take on the 
past and present of the sound design and post production communities.

www.tonebenderspodcast.com 
Twitter @thetonebenders