The Five Percent

Profiles of Women in Audio

Profiles

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When Music and Science Collide – Darcy Proper

Darcy Proper became the first woman engineer to win the GRAMMY for the Best Surround Sound Album category in 2008 for Donald Fagen’s “Morph the Cat” album. Darcy not only achieved these despite being a minority in her field, but she also accomplished these while she lived thousands of miles away from the center of...

Finding Your Passion: Katy Templeman-Holmes

Katy Templeman-Holmes is the Director of Marketing for Professional, at HARMAN.  She started out in recording and broadcast engineering before moving over to the business side where she has worked for Euphonix in Technical Sales, then to SSL for Business Development, and finally to HARMAN.

From Stage to FOH – Alice Wilder

Alice Wilder is a Front Of House engineer based out of New York City. She currently works for M.I.A., Wolf Parade, and Austra, and has done FOH for Foxygen, Divine Fits, Sleigh Bells, The Drums and Diana amongst others, as well as monitors for Third Eye Blind.

This is Why I Do This Job – Caroline Sanchez

Caroline Sanchez works in Broadcast Audio as an A2, RF Tech, and Pro Tools Op on recording trucks. She also works in live sound as an A2 and AV work. Sanchez is freelance and regularly works for ABC, NBC, MTV, and Music Mix Mobile.

Helping Filmmakers Tell a Story – Deb Adair – Re-Recording Mixer

Deb Adair is a freelance re-recording mixer. Deb has been nominated for an Oscar (for the film Moneyball), has won three Emmys and nominated for an additional five, and has won two Golden Reel awards as Sound Supervisor. In the past couple of years her film credits include Entourage, Pele, and Keanu

From “Girl Engineer” to Re-Recording Mixer – Sherry Klein

Sherry Klein is an Emmy-nominated re-recording mixer and a pioneer of women in audio in both music and television. Sherry became a recording engineer at Larrabee Studios in the late 1970s – one of a handful of women engineers in Los Angeles at the time and possibly one of the only women re-recording mixers in...

Breaking Tradition – Brinda Sreenivas

Brinda Sreenivas is a Freelance Sound Engineer from India. Born in Bangalore - India, her early life was filled with music, teaching herself to play piano by ear but this fell off when her parents were unable to send her to piano lessons. Her passion for the music industry never died even though she knew...

Bringing your Musical Ideas & Dreams to Reality

Singer, songwriter, producer, and filmmaker, Betty Moon shares her advice on how to release music and make a splash

Erika Earl – Always be yes-sing! (say it out loud)

Practice, patience, and a relentless desire to succeed -Erika Earl is the Director of Hardware Engineering at Slate Digital where she directs teams and engineers in the technical development of hardware products from concept to launch.
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