Book Presentation/Signing: Women in Audio

12/08/2021

06:00pm – 07:00pm

Leslie Gaston-Bird

Women in Audio features almost 100 profiles and stories of audio engineers who are women and have achieved success throughout the history of the trade. Beginning with a historical view, the book covers the achievements of women in various audio professions and then focuses on organizations that support and train women and girls in the industry. What follows are eight chapters divided by discipline, highlighting accomplished women in various audio fields: radio; sound for film and television; music recording and electronic music; hardware and software design; acoustics; live sound and sound for theater; education; audio for games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality, as well as immersive sound.

Admission: free
Location: Studio Kino, Bernstorffstraße 93, 22767 Hamburg

Leslie Gaston-Bird owns the post-production company “Mix Messiah Productions”, as well as acting as Vice President for the Audio Engineering Society . She taught audio production and audio post production for 15 years at the University of Colorado Denver and is a voting member of the Recording Academy for the Grammys. Leslie also wrote the book “Women In Audio“. She currently resides in Brighton, England.