A podcast about Education in Audio, Music Production, and Music Technology, (including a plug for the exciting new podcast conference EPod 2023)

Our penultimate conversation from the vault of chats in 2020. Kirsten is an audiovisual artist/academic who produces music under the electronic artist alias Kyokee and teaches at the University of Westminster. We chat about Kirsten's migration from Germany to England, her teaching at the University of Westminister and her experiences as an artist in much demand. We talk about new media, ideas of liveness and performance and her book, "Performing Electronic Music Live" (see link below).

Joining us as usual in this episode is host, lecturer, and tech developer Tim Canfer, music producer and academic Russ Hepworth-Sawyer and Carola Boehm, Professor of Arts and Higher Education at Staffordshire University.

Links and Sources:

• Kirsten's site at the University of Westminster: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/hermes-kirsten
• A link to Kirsten's 2022 book "Performing Electronic Music Live"
• Kirsten's music site: https://www.nyokeemusic.com/

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A podcast about Education in Audio, Music Production, and Music Technology.

Katie Tavini is a Mancunian mastering engineer with credits that include Emeli Sandé, Arlo Parks and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. We spoke to this highly in-demand master engineer almost two years ago (and yes, sorry! It has been that long, but we have some more great chats to drop before the end of the year). The conversation is worth the wait, flowing from the requirements of sound engineering, the differences in the profession from classical to pop, from German contexts to British ones, and from London to the North and back to the South. Her versatility in her engineering practice is just as versatile as the locational contexts. Liking a challenge, she has travelled from being a violinist to an in-demand mastering expert, navigating different technologies through the years as well as mastering for different media channels. On top of this, she has started her own creative mastering collective, Weird Jungle. She shares with us some fascinating insights and unmissable advice.

Joining us as usual at our roundtable in this episode is host and tech developer Tim Canfer, music producer and academic Russ Hepworth-Sawyer and Carola Boehm, Professor of Arts and Higher Education at Staffordshire University.

Links and Sources:

• Katie Tavini’s Homepage: https://www.katietavini.co.uk/
• Katie Tavini at Steinberg: https://www.steinberg.net/stories/katie-tavini/
• Weird Jungle: https://www.weirdjungle.com/

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A podcast about Education in Audio, Music Production, and Music Technology. 

In this episode we talk to Amlak Tafari, English-born Jamaican and ‘International Reggae Am-BASS-Ador’.

Amlak is bass guitarist for Grammy award winning roots reggae band Steel Pulse, he has also played extensively with Pato Banton and a huge list of other international musicians, as well as being an educator, academic and all round great guy to chat with.

We talk about Amlak's rich musical past, his experiences in the music industry and cultural issues of bigotry and racism. We also talk about his route to Higher education and the problems he experienced.

At Sound Learnings we are keen advocates for effective higher education and a key part of that is being unflinching in discussing core problems of higher education, in particular the snobbery and racism discussed with Amlak in this episode.

As well as that there are some great stories of life as a true muso with funny and surprising insights.

Links and Sources:

• Amlak's IMDB profile: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3897782/bio
• Steel Pulse website: https://steelpulse.com/ most recent album Mass Manipulation available now
• Link to call for contributions for the Perspectives on Education in Audio and Music Production (POEM) book Podcasting & Education: Concepts, Communities & Case Studies (Routledge) mentioned in the intro https://www.poem-series.com/call-for-contributions
• Link to Tim's new plugins https://www.reactivebacking.com

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