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Zora Neale Hurston
There are a variety of ways to approach the study of music. I often tackle it from a technical point of view, but one can look at the historical and cultural context of music to decipher the larger...
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Her story – Interview with Dr Helen Reddington
On a rainy Friday night, I’m drinking tea under the glow of fairy lights in the crowd that’s gathered to catch Helen McCookerybook on the Midlands leg of her solo tour. Dr. Helen Reddington’s pseudonym...
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Petra Randewijk – Live Sound & Recording Engineer
Petra Randewijk is an independent sound engineer based in The Netherlands. Petra has been working in audio for 21 years, and she is currently on tour with Imogen Heap as the FOH Engineer. The world...
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Maya Finlay – Feet in Two Worlds
Monitors for Rosanne Cash tour, 2019, credit: C. Elliott Photography Maya Finlay is a sound engineer that works in live sound, as well as in the studio recording, editing, mixing and producing. Maya...
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Interview with Rosa Lin, Acoustician
Listen to the room you currently reside. What do you hear? Is it traffic, an airplane, or is it a nearby playground? Can you hear your co-workers or just the hum of the air conditioner unit? These...
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Interview with Veronica Simonetti
Veronica Simonetti is the Lead Studio Engineer at Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) in San Francisco, California, where she has lived and worked for the past 4 years. Veronica has worked with a wide variety...
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Switched-On Friendship – Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind-Tourre.
Where would electronic music be without Wendy Carlos? Carlos’ 1968 album Switched-On Bach brought the Moog synthesizer (and electronic music) to the public eye. It was popular enough to win three...
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Rising Producer-Engineer – Lauren Deakin Davies
Lauren Deakin Davies has worked for six years as an independent record producer and engineer. She recently worked for SoundLab Studios for a few months before starting work as a production assistant...
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Transitioning in the Music Industry
Laura Nagtegaal is a transgender woman, fully transitioning in 2017. This is her experience working in the music industry. Backline Tech Laura Nagtegaal has been working in Live Event Production...
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FOH Lisa Affenzeller – Chasing the Magic
Lisa Affenzeller is an independent FOH Engineer, who works mainly with Heavy Metal bands, such as Butcher Babies, TesseracT, Kobra & the Lotus, Devin Townsend Project, Overkill, Annihilator. She...
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Lifting each other up – Interview with Naomi Larsson
Naomi Larsson Sometimes I forget that England is on a tiny island and the six degrees of separation is a common phenomenon in the UK music scene. A few weeks ago I’d had the pleasure of engineering a...
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Bryony October – Tolerance, Patience & the Ability to Remain Calm
Bryony October is an independent live sound engineer who started touring when she 15. She has toured as a merch-seller, catering assistant, and backline tech before moving into live sound. She has been...
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Adriana Viana: Independent Brazilian Sound Engineer
Read Portuguese Version Here Adriana Viana is a Brazilian freelance Front of House, monitor engineer, and technical director. Based in São Paulo, she has worked with many Brazilian artists such as...
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Adriana Viana: Engenheira de Som Brasileira Independente
Read English Version Here A Brasileira Adriana Viana trabalha como diretora técnica, e técnica de PA e monitor freelance. Situada em São Paulo, já trabalhou com diferentes artistas da música...
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Love for Chaos: Willa Snow Live Sound Engineer
Willa Snow is an independent FOH, Monitor Engineer, and system tech-based in Austin, TX. While she has only been working in Live Sound for just over three years, she is filling up her resume. She...
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Mix Messiah – Leslie Gaston-Bird
Leslie Gaston-Bird is a freelance re-recording mixer and sound editor, and owner of Mix Messiah Productions. She is currently based in Brighton, England and is the author of the book “Women in Audio“....
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Rising Star – Carolyn Slothour Live Sound Engineer
Carolyn Slothour is an up and coming independent FOH and monitor engineer, who has been working in the industry for just over five years. She works as an A1 and A2 at a few production companies based...
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Ground Breaker Tana Douglas
Photograph by Lisa Johnson Rock Photographer. Tana Douglas is known as the first woman roadie and got her start working Production in 1973 when Philippe Petit rigged a steel cable between the towers at...
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An Interview with SWIM
The music scene here in Scotland is one of the most vibrant. But behind the scenes, the figures for women in music aren’t always encouraging. Hoping to change that is a charity organisation called...
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Beth O’Leary – Baking a Cake on a Moving Tour Bus
Beth O’Leary is a freelance monitor engineer and PA tech based in the U.K. She has been working in the industry for 11 years and is currently working as a stage and PA tech on the Whitney Houston...
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