Month: November 2015

Katia Isakoff- Guest Lecture

Sidney Akhurst / / Lectures

Katia Isakoff

 

Katia is a Music Production and industry affiliate who is a chair member of the Women produce music organization .She is also Co founder of record production conference, which is a conference in the UK that brings together record producers of all kinds. In talking about her involvement with the Women Produce music , she has given a few facts about what it entails and the kinds of people that join:

 

50% Men following the WPM industry. Building up the social media presence

 

Logo is a speaker symbol with WPM

 

Women produce music is a place for the industry and academia, in that all the stats, interviews and articles are in one place. She made it clear that industry was and is a male dominated industry, but it is slowly changing

 

Twitter

 

@wpm.org

 

www.womenproducemusic.org

 

Katia worked with Richard James Burgess

 

UK Music Equality and Diversity Committee (2013). Katia Joined this organization to help make the initiative more inviting and ‘user friendly’ for women. Katia makes music and is a producer etc, and she has spent a couple of years as a board member of the Music producer’s guild. The organisations saw the “Independent DIY market” as the market that Katia appeals to with her WPS organization.

 

BBC NEWS: why are female record producers so rare? (29 august 2012)

 

This is a list of WPM artists:

 

BJORK

MISSY ELLIOTT

IMOGEN HEEP

CORDELL JAHKSON

Catherine j marks

Ann mincieli

Trina shoemaker

Sylvia massey

Susan rogers

Mandy parnell (mastering)

Olga Fitzroy (took over from being a assistant engineer to full blown engineer)

 

 

Promoting projects , collaborations etc with Women making tunes etc

Don’t need to keep proving themselves

 

The next Q time event.. Music producers guild…

 

They invited all women panel to talk about the issues. It became obvious that they were unable to talk about them. The WPM wants to show that they are welcoming to allTom Robinson BBC Radio 6 mentioned her on a radio boradcast

In all of history , men and women have collaborated in music

They need to find out what the issue/ obstacles are , that are in the way of women succeeding inb the music industry.There is a possible blaming culture, in the music industry, that is potentially from within the industry itself, which creates an awkwardness , that puts off women from coming into the industry.

There still is a certain Politics around the whole music business, that creates a glass ceiling around women GRAMMYS, Trailblazing Women

 

People to look up:

 

 

Suzanne Ciani Modular synths, prefer them to ones with keyboards

 

CIANI (look at her documentaries) Modular synths

 

Susan rogers- Prince’s vault. BBC (Look up)

 

 

I found this talk interesting, in that it has opened up my eyes to the lack of female representation in the music industry, and I am glad that there are movements like this that strive for equality in the business. I have given them a twitter follow and will be sure to support the movement in the future.

Dan Shepherd Lecture Notes

Sidney Akhurst / / Uncategorized

Feature Programs

Australia program.

 

Features: Documentary. Journalistic led… Wider spectrum of subject matters. Explore and idea. You can explore more etc with a feature, as opposed to a documentary.

 

Shade, color, depth.

 

Level crossing moving past acts as a transition in the sequence. Library sound effects. Features can use.

 

Archive material. At the disposal of a feature producer

 

There is a woman that is a poet that has her poetry read throughout the program (about trains)

 

Presenter led

 

Montage: no presenter, a collection of voices put together and music, cleverly to get a message across to the listener

 

Having a presenter can ‘get in the way’ when showing an idea like the Australia program. It demanded a montage format.

 

Appeal for making features: Go into a subject in depth, explore the nuances. More grey other than black and white. A lot of air time to fill. Depth. Gives you scope to explore a subject in any way you want.

 

Studio based discussion VS Feature radio. Feature transports you to another place. Different mindset produced. You can imagine being in the place. The most visual of all media. Encourages you to create the images in your mind.

 

Big appeal: More than the sum of its constituent parts.

 

More than the sum of (Take the program and be able to interpret it on a number of different levels)

 

At the time, there was very little said about Australia. Fascinating country that much of the outside world didn’t know much about

 

Debate at the time about immigration at the time, causing a lot of right wing unrest,

 

Becoming a multicultural society.. Land rights etc legal case about a claim to native Australians land (mineral rich north)

 

 

Bit in the end of the program about immigration, history of railway.

 

ABC (Equivalent to the BBC in Australia). No mobile phones in them days really.

 

Do research, talk to people, read up on it. Then have to do logistics to work out costs.

 

Train to Perth. Looks really hot and a load of desert. Etc., people weren’t really giving out much information so producer had to rethink his plan about how to get stuff down.

 

Doing a lot of interviews. 30 hours of material to get through.

 

Planning research, recording, mixing, admin at the end. All down to 1 person.

 

Next stage is the editing and mixing. Creative part is the hardest bit but most satisfying.

 

Making a sculpture is similar.

 

22/23 minutes of voices In the end and the rest is music and sfx

 

Walking around with lots of tape in rucksack. Book studio with studio managers. Studio manager makes all levels right and all the edits super smooth

 

Do the final mix themselves… Deliver it to a manager at BBC for broadcast

 

At BBC, you book a studio and you have time restrictions. Editing and mixing stage. Lots of different parts all glued together.

 

Producer that can hear it in their head.

 

Interviews: Omnidirectional microphone

 

Sound of train etc , use a stereo Mic

 

You have to keep yourself out of mind, and keep the listener in mind.

 

BBC own all rights in perpetuity.

 

 

Research On Death & NDE’s

Sidney Akhurst / / Uncategorized

I will chose Elements from different sources that will be most relevant to our projects main concept, which is about Death itself, as opposed to both life after death and

 

Death and Dying “ A reader” (Sarah Earle, Carole Komaromy and Caroline Bartholomew- 2009)

 

Understanding Death (Introduction) Carol Komaromy)

 

The Author talks about death in terms of a children’s viewpoint. Of what death is. They see someone that’s alive as being full of motion, where as a dead person is a motionless still person with no “signs” of life.

 

Komaromy talks about how the dead body is then put in to a coffin and more becomes a symbol of death itself rather than showing actual death, in the way that humans will make ceremonies and rituals that are metaphorically engaging to show death and not in a literal manner.

 

Near Death Experiences

 

Near Death experiences occur usually when accidents happen, and the experient is pronounced dead, but then miraculously is revived. All accounts of this happening are documented by the NDERF (The near death experience research foundation)

 

These sites accounts of the experiences are very diverse, even in an artistic way, if not true, then very encapsulating. These ideas, such as the process of time being a distortion of reality, we used in our project by distorting time with the audio. (Ie Fast & Slow & Superfast / Reverse) .