AES Event Alert: WAMCon Adds Linda Perry, Leslie Ann Jones – Oct. 19-20

AES 2018 is proving to be the Queen Bee for a host of enticing satellite audio events.

Women’s Audio Mission (WAM), the nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of women in music production and the recording arts announced they will present their first immersive recording arts conference for women in New York, WAMCon New York.

The event will be held at YouTube Space NYand Jungle City Studios, on October 19- 20, sponsored by iZotope, the Recording Academy, Eventide, and Shure.

Songwriter and producer extraordinaire Linda Perry will be a featured speaker at WAMCON 2018.

Recent speaker additions include famed music producer Linda Perry (Christina Aguilera, P!nk) and Skywalker Sound’s Leslie Ann Jones (Dianne Reeves, Herbie Hancock) to an impressive lineup of women music producers, recording engineers, and audio professionals featured at the conference.

WAM trains over 1,500 women and girls a year in the recording arts to address the critical lack of women in the audio industry (less than 5%). Over the past year, WAM’s mission and training programs have expanded to add a new training center in Oakland, CA and hosted two sold-out recording arts conferences for women in Boston at iZotope/PRX Podcast Garage, and in Los Angeles at Capitol Studios.

WAMCon New York will include a kick-off event at YouTube Space NYwith top music industry professionals on the evening of Friday, October 19. That will be followed on Saturday, October 20^th with a full-day of interactive workshops, covering topics from studio recording techniques to deconstructing mixes to beatmaking and songwriting, at Jungle City Studios and Centre for Social Innovation on Saturday, October 20.

Linda Perry and Leslie Ann Jones will be joined by additional elite women workshop leaders, including Ann Mincieli (Alicia Keys); Erin Tonkon (David Bowie); TRAKGIRL (Jhene Aiko, Luke James); Caroline Sanchez (Saturday Night Live); Haley Shaw (Gimlet Media); Chiquita Paschal (Uncivil, BuzzFeed); Erin Barra (Ableton); Lena Sutter (Shure, Raisin Toast LLC); and Mitra Kaboli (WNYC, ESPN).

Early-bird pricing is in effect through September 30^th, for $40. For more information and to purchase tickets visit WAMCon New York 2018.

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