L-Acoustics – SoundGirls Grant Recipients 2024

We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the L-Acoustics – SoundGirls Grants for 2024! This year, we are proud to support a diverse group of talented individuals who are making significant strides in the audio industry, who have each demonstrated exceptional dedication and passion in their work. These grants will provide them with valuable resources and opportunities to further their careers and continue their important contributions to the sound community. A big thank you to L-Acoustics for their generous support in making these grants possible. We look forward to celebrating the achievements of our recipients and supporting their journeys in the audio field!

Carolyn Slothour (System Expert grant)

Carolyn Slothour is a freelance live sound engineer based in New York with 10 years of experience in the audio industry with a specialization in FOH, monitor, and systems engineering. She has recently worked with artists such as Matchbox Twenty, Rob Thomas and Michael Bublé, and has mixed at festivals including Download, When We Were Young, Corona Capital, Slam Dunk and Lollapalooza. In addition to engineering, she develops curriculum and teaches live sound engineering courses for a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve accessibility and diversity within the audio industry. When not working, Carolyn enjoys making electronic music and spinning fire.

Instagram: @requiemwitch / Website: www.carolynslothour.com

Monica Bolles (L-ISA grant)

Monica Bolles has been working with spatial audio since 2011, when she first gained access to her local planetarium’s 15.1 channel surround system. Since then, she has developed custom toolsets in Max MSP and explored emerging technologies to craft textured soundscapes that explore space, movement, and interaction. As both a technician and artist, she collaborates with artists and composers to bring their work into immersive spatial environments, while also producing her own large-scale multichannel installations, exhibited on systems ranging from 8 to 140 channels.

Monica co-hosts the Immersive Audio Podcast and contributes to organizing Spatial Audio Meetups through NOTAM. She frequently curates, moderates, and presents workshops and panels on spatial audio, with appearances at notable events such as the New Visions Festival, SXSW, IRCAM Forums, Ableton Loop, IMERSA Summit, and NIME, among others.

Monica currently owns and operates Resonant Interactions, a company specializing in immersive experience design and immersive music production.

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Madison Keefer (System Engineer grant)

Hey everyone, I’m Madison Keefer and I’m a 22 year old who is super passionate about audio engineering. I run sound for Lightning Hockey games and I am a Patch tech with ESI Audio. I aspire to be a System Engineer one day and am always working on bettering my skills. I love how fast paced this industry is and the work I get to do. I am so thankful to have the job that I have and to play a part in creating legendary memories for people around the world.

 

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Facebook: Madison keefer

Instagram: @maddy_keef21

Jessica Baxter (System Technician grant)

Jess hails from Perth, Western Australia. She started her audio career mixing FOH in small, local live music venues. Since then she has branched out and is working full time for one of the largest audio production companies in Perth. Here she hopes to advance her career in the field of large scale line array system design and optimization.