AES Show 2024 NY

While every part of the music industry is examining the issue of sustainability, this panel will explore specifically the ways that manufacturers are approaching this. Many are considering every aspect of the design and manufacturing process from the choice of materials, manufacturing techniques and packaging to eco-friendly distribution and shipping methods in an effort to ensure a sustainable future.

Let's explore the dynamic world of sync licensing, bringing together key players from across the industry, including advertising, film, and television. Our discussion will dive into the creative and business sides of sync, sharing insights on how to secure placements, communicate effectively with supervisors, and maximize opportunities for music in visual media. Whether you're an aspiring composer or an industry veteran, this session will provide actionable advice and unique perspectives from top professionals working in sync today.

Women's Audio Mission presents a panel discussion featuring award-winning audio engineers reflecting on their career journeys and how they built successful careers. The discussion will include everything from essential skills to building your network. The panelists are award-winning recording engineers that have worked with artist such as Beyonce, Patti Smith, Lana Del Ray, Solange, Sheryl Crow and Kacey Musgraves in major Los Angeles, New York and Nashville studios and beyond.

Panelists include:

Gloria Kaba - Gloria Kaba is a Ghanaian-American sound engineer, producer, mixer and writer based in New York. She began her career as an intern at Battery Studios and later as an assistant engineer at MSR Studios where she worked with artists including Madonna, Beyonce, Kanye West, Salaam Remi, Aretha Franklin and Frank Ocean. She’s worked on A Tribe Called Quest’s final album We Got It From Here...Thank You For Your Service and Solange’s breakthrough release, A Seat At The Table, working closely with legendary hip-hop artist and producer Q-tip. Kaba was inducted into YouTube’s Black Voices Class of 2022; a fund championing 21 outstanding Black producers and songwriters.

Leslie Richter - Leslie Richter is a Nashville based producer and recording engineer and Chair of the Audio Engineering Program at Belmont University. After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University, she began her career as a staff engineer at the acclaimed Oceanway Studios in Nashville and worked with a wide array of artists including Sheryl Crow, Kacey Musgraves, Spoon, Sara Bareilles, Wynonna, John Hiatt and Ben Folds.

Vira Byramji - Vira Byramji is an audio engineer specializing in studio recording and mixing. Vira’s entrance into the industry was through the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York, where she was the assistant manager and a staff engineer. There she worked with major labels and high profile clients such as Patti Smith, U2, Lana Del Rey, Sara Bareilles and HBO to name a few. She is also works in A&R at Epidemic Sound.

Moderated by Terri Winston, Executive Director of Women's Audio Mission. Women's Audio Mission (WAM) is dedicated to closing the chronic gender gap in the music, recording and technology industries. Less than 5% of the people creating and shaping the sounds that make up the soundtrack of our lives are women and gender-expansive people. WAM is “changing the face of sound” by providing training, mentoring and career advancement that inspires the next generation of women and gender-expansive music producers, recording engineers and audio technologists and radically changes the narrative in these industries.

Using the AES Oral Historical Videos, AES Legends, such as Phil Ramone, Les Paul, Bob Ludwig, Ray Dolby and others (some known and others not so widely known) with the assistance of Jim Anderson, will tell the inside and partly forgotten story of how modern recording techniques and facilities developed as told by the people who were there using the AES Oral Histories edited by the presenter.

This workshop, featuring audio editors Sean Garnhart and Dan Brennan with video editor Gary Levy from Soundtrack Group, will delve into the dynamic interplay between video and audio professionals. Participants will hear about technical challenges and solutions from industry experts in real world film and TV environments from both a video and an audio perspective and how their workflows are evolving in tandem with new technologies and integrations.

Current music production has opened up a relatively new opportunity in the creation of 3D content, now easily available online and in various forms. Artists and labels are increasingly asking for 3D content to be delivered along with a standard stereo master. Many practitioners, however, are at a loss when it comes to how and what to deliver, as various streaming services implement their own binaural processes. Remixing older catalog content or even recent Stereo releases has proven to be problematic when working from stems that are badly prepared, or very costly when going back and remixing from scratch, using the original multitrack masters. The panel will speak to best tactics regarding the creation of stems to be delivered for use in immersive mixing, along with some examples of routing with sub-master processing, along with proper use of LFE and center channel, sides, rear and height channels. Other issues to be discussed include room simulation, loudness measurement and the various binaural processes. Questions from the audience will be a welcome part of the workshop.