Women’s Audio Mission Presents Two All-Star Music Production Panels at the Audio Engineering Society Convention
San Francisco Nonprofit Advancing Women in the Recording Arts Leads AES Panels
(San
Francisco, CA – August 27, 2016) – Women’s Audio Mission (WAM), a San
Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of women in music
production and the recording arts, is presenting two all-star music
production panels at the 141st Audio Engineering Society Convention in Los Angeles from September 29 – October 2nd.
The panels will feature Grammy award-winning music producers and
engineers who have worked with acclaimed artists ranging from Missy
Elliott to Jay-Z to Carlos Santana to Taylor Swift. WAM Founder and
Executive Director, Terri Winston, will moderate the “All-Star Album
Production” panel on Thursday, September 29, 4:00-5:30PM
featuring Grammy-winning engineers and producers Marcella Araica
(Timbaland, Missy Elliott, Britney Spears, Madonna), Laura Sisk (Taylor
Swift, Shakira, Pink), and Piper Payne (Coast Mastering), which will
cover the latest work flow and production tips that create efficiency in
the album-making process from pre-production to mastering, including
traditional acoustic production and beat-making.
Winston will also moderate the “Platinum Vocal Production” panel on Friday, 9/30 at 1:30PM
featuring Grammy-winning panelists Jimmy Douglass (Missy Elliott,
Jay-Z, Timbaland), Leslie Ann Jones (Dianne Reeves, B.B. King, Carlos
Santana), and Neal Pogue (Outkast, Pink, Janelle Monae), that will cover
the ins and outs of producing vocal tracks for platinum hits, including
recording chains, compression techniques, de-essing, and vocal editing.
WAM has been representing women and girls in the audio industry at the
AES convention since 2003. Women are critically underrepresented in the
audio industry. Less than 5% of the people who create the media and
music heard on the radio, television, in film and on the internet are
women. WAM trains over 1,200 women and girls a year in the recording
arts in the only professional recording studio in the world built and
run by women. AES donates a booth to WAM each year to increase the
presence of women at the convention and in the industry. This year, the
organization will be representing women and girls in the recording arts
at Booth 1129.
“Women’s Audio Mission is very excited to present these two spectacular
and diverse panels at AES,” says WAM founder, Terri Winston. “I am
excited to have such amazing engineers and producers share their
exceptional wisdom and expertise at AES this year.”
