In cIrculation since 2015, Women in Sound is a print and online zine dedicated to Women and non-binary People in all areas of Live and recorded sound.
Women in Sound Season 2, Episode 10 featuring Leslie Ann Jones
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Women in Sound Season 2, Episode 10 featuring Leslie Ann Jones 〰️
Leslie Ann Jones is a trailblazing, multi-Grammy award winning recording engineer with a career spanning nearly fifty years.
After getting her start at ABC Recording Studios in Los Angeles, where she was the first woman hired as an assistant engineer in 1975, she spent the next two decades in a variety of production roles at renowned institutions like The Automatt, home to one of the earliest digital recording systems, and Capitol Studios.
In 1997, she joined Skywalker Sound as the Director of Music Recording and Scoring. Her film score credits include Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, and George Clooney’s Good Night and Good Luck.
Leslie’s expansive discography includes legendary artists like Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, and The Kronos Quartet, among many others.
For the finale of season 2, host Madeleine Campbell sat down with Leslie to discuss her storied history, selected tracks from her discography, and recording film and video game scores.
Each episode of Women in Sound focuses on one engineer, producer or artist through an interview + deep dive discussion surrounding a guest DJ set of tracks from their discography. Together we’ll explore the ins and outs of various roles that join forces to create amazing records and get a behind-the-scenes look into how some of our favorite tracks were made — directly from the people who produced them.
All episodes available now in full on the Sonos app and on Mixcloud
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The Makeup of a Mixer, Part two
Read the second installment of Jade Payne’s series which breaks down the functions of audio mixers.
Past HIGHLIGHTS
Carol Kaye:
her 10,000 Album career
Alexandria Perryman:
AUDIO engineer and archivist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center
olivia Bradley-Skill:
Radio art + how WFMU adapted to Covid-19
SuZanne Ciani:
Returning to the Buchla after 40 years
Lavender Suarez:
SOUND HEALING + RECORDING IN A
GEODESIC DOME