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Sharing Knowledge. Building Community. Amplifying Voices.
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 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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Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Ronni Brown is a professional foley artist working on independent and blockbuster films, television shows, and video games at Skywalker Sound in Marin. She has received four Emmy nominations, winning her first award in 2020, and 24 MPSE Golden Reel nominations, winning three times in 2019, 2020, and 2021. Ronni is well known for pushing the boundaries of traditional Foley, breaking common misconceptions and delivering dynamic sounds to support all her projects, big and small. She is passionate about keeping the aesthetic of the women that came before her and supporting other women entering the audio post production industry. She currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and two young children.
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Becky Pell is a sound engineer with 26 years’ experience in the live music industry. Her mixing credits include Westlife, A-ha, Anastacia, Take That, The War of the Worlds, Muse, Kylie Minogue, Bill Wyman, James Brown, Jennifer Lopez, and Natalie Imbruglia. She has regularly been in charge of monitors on the main stage at the world’s largest festival, Glastonbury, and writes a column for Live Sound International. Becky is also a qualified Yoga Therapist, Holistic Counsellor and Mentor, and between tours she runs yoga retreats. She is the author of ‘Yoga Journey - a Contemporary Guide to a Timeless Tradition’, published worldwide earlier this year. She is training as a touring Mental Health First Aider, and is passionate about making the touring industry more sustainable by taking care of the humans who make it happen.
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Belinda is a music composer who specialises in composing for games. Her credits include 'Ring of Pain' and 'Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Rising'. Additionally, Belinda is the Ingestion Co-Ordinator at Instyle Music, a music library providing music for Film, Television, and media, where she is involved in the music submission process.