024 / Sara Landeau (The Julie Ruin) on Gear Tips for Beginners and Pro Tools Tears
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English - December 30, 2020 09:00 - 1 hourMusic Interviews Music Business Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Hilary talks with Sara Landeau (The Julie Ruin) about pedalboards as art, the gendering of technology, breaking things to learn, and etudes for dive-bombing. Plus, gear and class privilege.
Huge thanks to this episode’s sponsors!
EarthQuaker Devices- extra special effects pedals made by hand in Akron, OH!
Studio 121- recording, production, beats and more in Providence, RI!
SARA’S BIO
Sara Landeau is a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, educator, producer, composer, and artist based in NYC. In 2004, she started Brooklyn Music School for Women and Girls which offers music lessons in electric guitar, bass, rock drums, and electronics. She is a proponent of equality for women and believes in the ideology of self-improvement and empowerment through education.
She is a founding member, co-songwriter, and lead guitarist of The Julie Ruin with Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill/Le Tigre) and has released acclaimed albums on Hardly Art Records (SubPop), achieved top 10 chart hits, radio and television appearances, a number 1 on CMJ charts, and music in films and commercials.
She has performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Seth Meyers Show, and Carson Daly Show and reviews and interviews include New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Spin, New York Magazine, Paper Magazine, Billboard, Los Angeles Times, Timeout, Esquire, Big Takeover, NME, Pitchfork, Fader, Consequence of Sound, Flaunt, Bust, and more. College Music Journal (CMJ) listed song “I Decide” #1 in 2017. Rolling Stone listed album ‘Run Fast” 2015 as #3 in their top ten albums of the year.
The recipient of 2019 Max Matthews Sound Artist Artist award from Brooklyn College, the 2019 Cycling 74 Max Expo Grant, Women in Computer Music Scholarship Stanford, 2019, and an award-winning educator with the Girls Rock Camp Alliance, she has also performed as a solo electro-acoustic composer and guitarist. Her performances often include custom instruments and sonic sculptures utilizing electro-conductive materials such as paint and threads with sounds and compositions created in Max MSP. She has studied with Morton Subotnick, Marina Rosenfeld, and David Grubbs while receiving an MFA in Sonic Arts at Brooklyn College.
MENTIONS
John Cage / Lee Ranaldo / The Trash Women / The 5. 6. 7. 8’s / Jack White / Nick Cave / The Birthday Party / Rowland Howard / Kenny Mellman / Kathleen Hanna / Clara Shuman / Tara Rodgers / Delia Derbyshire / Suzanne Ciani / Mary Ford / Pink Noises / Max MSP / Fender / Gretsch / Ludwig / Silvertone / Gibson / Reuss / Digitech / She Shreds / Tom Tom / Fanny’s / Guitar Center / Sam Ash / Moog / Buchla / Sisters with Transistors
SARA’S LINKS
Sara’s Instagram
Sara’s Website
The Julie Ruin Website
The Julie Ruin Instagram
MID-RIFF LINKS
Website
Instagram
Facebook
Newsletter
Blog
Thanks for rating/reviewing on Apple Podcasts!
CREDITS
Sara’s Bumper Track: “I Decide” by The Julie Ruin
Theme Music: "Hedonism" by Towanda
Artwork by Julia Gualtieri
Hilary talks with Sara Landeau (The Julie Ruin) about pedalboards as art, the gendering of technology, breaking things to learn, and etudes for dive-bombing. Plus, gear and class privilege.
Huge thanks to this episode’s sponsors!
EarthQuaker Devices- extra special effects pedals made by hand in Akron, OH!
Studio 121- recording, production, beats and more in Providence, RI!
SARA’S BIO
Sara Landeau is a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, educator, producer, composer, and artist based in NYC. In 2004, she started Brooklyn Music School for Women and Girls which offers music lessons in electric guitar, bass, rock drums, and electronics. She is a proponent of equality for women and believes in the ideology of self-improvement and empowerment through education.
She is a founding member, co-songwriter, and lead guitarist of The Julie Ruin with Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill/Le Tigre) and has released acclaimed albums on Hardly Art Records (SubPop), achieved top 10 chart hits, radio and television appearances, a number 1 on CMJ charts, and music in films and commercials.
She has performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Seth Meyers Show, and Carson Daly Show and reviews and interviews include New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Spin, New York Magazine, Paper Magazine, Billboard, Los Angeles Times, Timeout, Esquire, Big Takeover, NME, Pitchfork, Fader, Consequence of Sound, Flaunt, Bust, and more. College Music Journal (CMJ) listed song “I Decide” #1 in 2017. Rolling Stone listed album ‘Run Fast” 2015 as #3 in their top ten albums of the year.
The recipient of 2019 Max Matthews Sound Artist Artist award from Brooklyn College, the 2019 Cycling 74 Max Expo Grant, Women in Computer Music Scholarship Stanford, 2019, and an award-winning educator with the Girls Rock Camp Alliance, she has also performed as a solo electro-acoustic composer and guitarist. Her performances often include custom instruments and sonic sculptures utilizing electro-conductive materials such as paint and threads with sounds and compositions created in Max MSP. She has studied with Morton Subotnick, Marina Rosenfeld, and David Grubbs while receiving an MFA in Sonic Arts at Brooklyn College.
MENTIONS
John Cage / Lee Ranaldo / The Trash Women / The 5. 6. 7. 8’s / Jack White / Nick Cave / The Birthday Party / Rowland Howard / Kenny Mellman / Kathleen Hanna / Clara Shuman / Tara Rodgers / Delia Derbyshire / Suzanne Ciani / Mary Ford / Pink Noises / Max MSP / Fender / Gretsch / Ludwig / Silvertone / Gibson / Reuss / Digitech / She Shreds / Tom Tom / Fanny’s / Guitar Center / Sam Ash / Moog / Buchla / Sisters with Transistors
SARA’S LINKS
MID-RIFF LINKS
Thanks for rating/reviewing on Apple Podcasts!
CREDITS
Sara’s Bumper Track: “I Decide” by The Julie Ruin
Theme Music: "Hedonism" by Towanda
Artwork by Julia Gualtieri