Comments on: Women in Audio: Yes, We Exist!

By: Becca

Becca — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 13:24:02 +0000

(sigh) This truth conflicts me. I grew up in a family of classical musicians and in my early 20s developed an interest in audio production (you know, music with computers). I am passionate about sound, have learned the skills, and am about to finish an audio production course and feel quite confident of my ability to do sound for film/produce my own electronic music as a hobby….. but I really don’t think I have the personality required to deal with the prejudices we face! I just entered a discourse on Quora, and as predicted, was attacked by men on there who felt threatened. I don’t want to turn away from my passion, but I don’t want to deal with this omnipresent animosity! Not sure how to proceed..

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By: Lora H.

Lora H. — Fri, 08 May 2015 02:47:40 +0000

Thanks for this great discussion. It has always served me well to remember that our differences are our strengths. Don’t accept put downs (unless you deserve them) and always call bullshit when you see it. And with that in mind I would recommend that we stop using the word “girl” to describe the women in our workplace.

By: Gabriel Guy

Gabriel Guy — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 19:14:51 +0000

Thanks for the excellently written and insightful article (and follow-up comments) April. I’ve been fortunate enough to be mentored by and work alongside some very talented women in my career but as an industry I think we would all greatly benefit from more women in sound.

Gabe

By: Brent Williams

Brent Williams — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:54:41 +0000

Whoops – forgot the link:
http://www.audiotechnology.com.au/wp/index.php/tonmeister-breaks-tradition-aria-engineer-of-the-year/

By: Brent Williams

Brent Williams — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:46:24 +0000

Of course there are women in audio. My first proper band’s FOH engineer was a woman, and yes, she used to cop all of that sexist claptrap, and a great deal of patronising “assistance” from male system engineers everywhere. She used to get the “are you one of the band member’s girlfriends?” question (which she wasn’t). Anyway, she just let her skill and experience do the talking and usually about two minutes into the soundcheck, these people would crawl away with their tails between their legs.

The thing is. it was quite rare for a punk rock band to employ a female soundie, at least back then in the early nineties, in Australia. But in my experience (which stretches back 30 or so years, both as artist and technician), female techs are invariably very good at what they do, and they don’t come with the baggage that more than a few male technicians carry, like alcoholism or drug problems, or an inability to take on the slightest constructive criticism of their work, or even to be able to accept suggestions from the artist they are working with. Maybe all of this is generalisation as well, but I did say this was my experience. Women engineers just seem to be able to listen better, which is after all a large part of the job, right?

Anyway, this isn’t just my opinion. There are now many women working in the higher echelons of the industry in Australia – the proverbial cream rising to the top. I’m pleased to be able to pass on this link about ons such woman: Virginia Read. An eminent Australian tonmeister, she won the Australian Recording Industry Association Engineer of the Year award, 2014. Virginia was nominated this year as well, and in total has been nominated 21 times – about time she won, but as you will read, she has a healthy “don’t care, I’m too busy working” attitude to the whole thing.

By: jane rossetto

jane rossetto — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 08:59:59 +0000

Women in Live Audio exist too! Great Article .Thanks

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By: Anastasia Devana

Anastasia Devana — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:12:22 +0000

In reply to Jo-Anne Velin.

“If there is any anecdotal evidence that, given an open slate, a woman would design a different type of sound for a film than a male colleague might, I’m interested to hear more please.”

I agree with April here. And I believe that one -person- would design a different type of sound, than another -person-

That is to say, what we create is defined by who we are. And who we are is a jumbled up combination of our genes, upbringing, books we read, movies we saw, our friends, family, where we grew up, where we traveled, and all other big and small life experiences.