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TA2's Sisters of Sound

14 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -

An interview-based podcast series that turns the volume up on women in audio and music!

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Sisters of Sound - Simone Torres: Grammy Nominated Engineer

December 09, 2020 21:23 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MB

Simone Torres is a Multi-Platinum, Grammy Nominated, engineer, vocal producer and vocalist. She was born and raised in Long Island, NY and began singing live with her father at the age of 9. “Because I’m a singer, I tune like a singer and not like an engineer.” After highschool, she went on to study at Berkeley and excelled. When she was 19 she was a competitor on the X Factor, where she realized that perhaps maybe performing isn’t her thing, and instead took to engineering. Listen to hea...

Sisters of Sound - Jenny Reader: Fearless Label President

December 09, 2020 21:20 - 50 minutes - 115 MB

This episode of Sisters Of Sound has us hanging with Jenny Reader, President and CCO of Fearless Records. We Skype her in from Culver City, California, where the alt-rock label is celebrating 25 years. Jenny grew up in England with a love for writing, creating and designing. She got a degree in design and media management and worked in publishing for a few years, later becoming freelance. An opportunity came up for her to write for England’s SkyTV’s new music alt-rock channels, which lead i...

Sisters of Sound - Caroline Sanchez: All-Star Broadcast Audio Tech

December 09, 2020 21:13 - 26 minutes - 61.1 MB

On Episode 16 of SOS, we Skype with Brooklyn, NY local Caroline Sanchez. She is a freelance musician, audio technician, and technology consultant who’s landed some pretty exciting gigs throughout her career thus far. She’ll tell us how the audio ball got rolling with a Bachelor of Music in Sound Engineering Arts from William Paterson University. She then jumped at the opportunity to intern at Bonnaroo, which lead to more high profile jobs like working for SNL, Good Morning America and even ...

Sisters of Sound - Lorraine Segato: Canadian Icon and Social Justice Activist

December 09, 2020 20:53 - 40 minutes - 37.9 MB

Lorraine Segato: is an accomplished pop singer-songwriter, filmmaker, event producer, artist director, lecturer and social justice activist. Her career spans over 3 decades. She’s best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the Toronto new-wave pop rock group The Parachute Club. Their hit “Rise Up” was a national hit in 1983, and is hailed as a unique achievement in Canadian pop music. Lorraine’s story begins as the lead in Toronto rock band Mama Quilla II in the late 70’s. Sh...

Sisters of Sound - Elisabeth Hart: Real-Life Unicorn and Imaging Producer

December 09, 2020 20:49 - 22 minutes - 21.2 MB

The radio industry is no doubt an exciting place to be. It could be the best fun you could possibly ever have working a job – literally, your job is to make people happy most of the time. At the same time, the working competition is cut-throat, which doesn’t offer much stability for professionals. It goes without saying that the ones who are making it all happen on and behind the air are hella talented. Throughout my time working in radio, I found the male/female disparity a little striking...

Sisters of Sound - Ann Jansen: The Wonderful World of Audiobooks

December 09, 2020 20:43 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MB

Stories are a part of our lives from the very beginning. They come to us in many forms; a daily group-chat, the evening TV news or a perhaps a podcast. Almost half of the US population has listened to a podcast now, and that’s still on the rise. But what about books? E-readers were the first technology to disrupt paperbacks. And now, it’s audio. But it’s not a bad thing for publishers. They’re switching things up quick, and are now publishing their books in both paper and sound. Our guest ...

Sisters of Sound - hey! dw, Epic Toronto DJ & Award-winning Director

December 09, 2020 19:56 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MB

Meet D.W. Waterson, also known as hey! dw. She’s an artist of many talents. To some, she’s hey! dw, a DJ drummer party captain that lead them have the best night ever. To others, she’s the creator and director of their fave binge-watchable You-Tube series. On the real, she’s one of the hottest Toronto DJs around, a musician at heart and an award winning director/creator. Her digital series That’s My DJ, inspired by the party scene she lives in, won her Best Director at the New York Televisi...

Sisters of Sound - Sook-Yin Lee: Sook-Yin From Then to Now

December 09, 2020 19:45 - 1 hour - 65.5 MB

Sook-Yin Lee: is an achieved Canadian broadcaster, musician, actor and filmmaker. That’s a whole lot of things. She’s a lover of storytelling at her core, which has lead her to work in a wide variety of mediums, from being a MuchMusic VJ to performing day-long durational art experiments. Nowadays she’s still crushing it in Toronto, hosting her latest CBC show Sleepover and touring the release of her supernatural drama film, Octavio Is Dead! We learn how things got started for her as a teen ...

Sisters of Sound - Christine Leslie: TA2's Executive Producer/Director of Licensing

December 09, 2020 19:36 - 41 minutes - 38.5 MB

Christine Leslie: TA2’s very own Executive Producer/Director of Licensing is a Toronto music power house with over 30 years of experience in sound and advertising. Her career started when she was a teenager, after her aunt hooked her up with a job as a receptionist at an art and design studio for advertising agencies. Her aunt was an advertising Producer, and she quickly set a goal for herself to become one too. After working for various music houses in Toronto over the years and falling in...

Sisters of Sound - Rachel Ryan: Mr. Sound Lady

December 09, 2020 19:36 - 23 minutes - 54.1 MB

A Front of House (FOH) engineer is responsible for making a live show sound good. Mr. Sound Lady aka Rachel Ryan is one of the few female FOH engineers and has toured with bands like the Silversun Pickups and The Strokes. Listen for insider information on how to make a band sound good and which songs she uses to test out a system! “I love the live element…you can’t sit at Pro Tools for two hours and work on a snare drum. You’ve got 30-minute sound check and it better be good…You have to kee...

Sisters of Sound - Lori Beckstead: The Importance & Capabilities of Sound

December 09, 2020 19:36 - 25 minutes - 59.2 MB

Lori Beckstead, Audio + Digital Media Professor at the Ryerson’s School of Media tells us about the fascinating capabilities of sound! Including the purpose of sound design, the importance of considering sound and music earlier on in the creative process and ideas for projects that will leave you feeling inspired to make your own! Lori is also an interactive installation sound artist and has designed projects that reveal telling data about the industry. “People still have a need for radio a...

Sisters of Sound - Claire Murphy: All Hands on Guitar

December 09, 2020 19:36 - 27 minutes - 62.2 MB

Backline and Guitar Tech: a concert literally could not happen without those dressed-in-all-black-figures that you always see setting up the stage. Enter Claire Murphy, a woman who claims that anyone can do the job if you know the right techniques. Claire Murphy has toured with bands like The Raveonettes and Vance Joy. She talks about what it’s like to be a woman in that position and how there aren’t many others like her. On working with an all-girl crew: “This shouldn’t be an anomaly. It ...

Sisters of Sound - Clara Venice: Toronto's Theremin-Pop Musician

December 09, 2020 19:36 - 53 minutes - 121 MB

Have you ever wondered where those creepy alien sounds in sci-fi movies come from? Clara Venice tells us all about the Theremin, an instrument that you play by “waving your hands around 2 antennas”. It’s the pioneering instrument of electronic music and believe it or not, onlookers have a part in playing the instrument too! In Episode 2, we get a detailed walkthrough of the history of the instrument as well as how the heck to play it! She is one of the only theremin musicians to use it in p...

Sisters of Sound - Susan Rogers: Prince and Music Cognition

December 09, 2020 16:56 - 22 minutes - 50.8 MB

Have you ever wondered if babies can hear music in the womb? I spoke with Professor/Director of the Berkeley Music Perception & Cognition Lab Susan Rogers – the same woman who engineered some of Prince’s records including Purple Rain. “No one made records the way Prince did. At that time his output was so prolific we worked so fast that I actually had to un-learn Prince when I left him.” With a unique understanding of the science of music, Susan tells me about her experiences producing, re...

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