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Resonating Beyond Sound. We speak to audio professionals from all walks of life, to learn how we can better support one another towards a more diversified industry. We also talk to our soundgirls.org profile people and dive a little deeper with them.
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Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
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)’.
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
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.
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
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.
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
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.
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
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.
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
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
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
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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