The Five Percent

Adriana Viana is a Brazilian freelance Front of House, monitor engineer, and technical director. Based in São Paulo, she has worked with many Brazilian artists such as Teatro Mágico, Flora Matos, Plutão Já Foi Planeta, Rodrigo Teaser - Tributo ao Rei do Pop (a Michael Jackson tribute concert) and has mixed several international artists.

Bryony October is an independent live sound engineer who started touring when she 15. She has toured as a merch-seller, catering assistant, and backline tech before moving into live sound. She has been working in live sound for the last 20 years.

Naomi Larsson is an award-winning humanitarian journalist with a hefty back catalogue of empowering and candid pieces on women in music, she’s an active musician and creator of a female-centred collective titled “Sister Rosetta’s

Lisa Affenzeller is an independent FOH Engineer, who works mainly with Heavy Metal bands, such as Butcher Babies, TesseracT, Kobra & the Lotus, Devin Townsend Project, Overkill, Annihilator. She has been working in the industry for over ten years.

Laura Nagtegaal is a trans woman, fully tranisitioning in 2017.  This is her experience working in the music industry.

Lauren Deakin Davies has worked for six years as an independent record producer and engineer. She recently worked for SoundLab Studios for a few months before starting work as a production assistant to Gary Barlow in London. 

Nicole shares the stories of Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind-Tourre. Pioneers and groundbreaking women who created and produced soundtracks for feature films.

Veronica Simonetti is the Lead Studio Engineer at Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) in San Francisco, California, where she has lived and worked for the past 4 years.

Listen to the room you currently reside. What do you hear? Is it traffic, an airplane, or is it a nearby playground? Can you hear your co-workers or just the hum of the air conditioner unit? These are questions Rosa Lin faces every day as an Acoustician in her quest to reduce unwanted noise.