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Andreya Triana is a MOBO-nominated singer-songwriter from South London. With a sound rooted in soul, jazz, and pop, her smoky, husky voice embodies female empowerment and individuality. After attending the Red Bull Music Academy in Australia in 2006, she collaborated with Bonobo and Flying Lotus before signing with Ninja Tune in 2010. She has released three solo albums: Lost Where I Belong (2010), Giants (2015), and Life in Colour (2019).  Her music has been featured on TV shows including Grey's Anatomy and The Good Wife. In 2023, she appeared in the Netflix film The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight. Andreya is currently focused on creating new solo material and writing for other artists.

Olga FitzRoy is a renowned recording and mixing engineer and former Executive Director at the Music Producers Guild (MPG). She has worked on scores for The Crown (Martin Phipps), Doctor Who (Segun Akinola), The Mauritanian (Tom Hodge), Gentleman Jack (Murray Gold), and The Innocents (Carly Paradis). Olga has also worked with major acts including Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Muse, and Dua Lipa & Martin Garrix. She recorded and mixed Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch’s scores for Living and Netflix’s The Strays, and recently engineered Herdís Stefánsdóttir’s score for M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin. Olga is an advocate for women’s issues and campaigned for Parental Pay Equality, leading to a new bill being debated in Parliament. She has called for support for UK recording studios.

Shara Rambarran is a musicologist and senior lecturer in music, business, and media at the University of Brighton. She authored Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era and co-runs the Art of Record Production conferences. Shara specializes in remixology, digital technology, and music production, and serves on editorial boards for various music journals. She co-edited several books including The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality and The Intellect Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies. Shara is also Bloomsbury’s Music and Sound’s biographer and musicologist for Spotify’s Decode music podcast.

Simon Zagorski-Thomas is a Professor of Music at the University of West London. He has taught record production, recording, research methods, popular music studies, and electronic music composition for over 20 years. Simon organized the first Art of Record Production conference in 2005 and co-founded the Journal on the Art of Record Production. He established the 21st Century Music Practice research network and has led UK Research Council funded projects on studio performance. Simon is the author of The Musicology of Record Production and Practical Musicology, and co-edited volumes on the Art of Record Production and music production handbooks.

William Moylan is Distinguished University Professor and Professor Emeritus of Music and Sound Recording Technology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has taught recording techniques, critical listening, music theory, and recording analysis for over 40 years. Dr. Moylan’s research focuses on the intersection of sounds in recordings, music, lyrics, and psychoacoustics. He has worked with both popular and classical artists, leading to several Grammy nominations. William is the author of Recording Analysis: How the Record Shapes the Song and Understanding and Crafting the Mix. He is co-editor of Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks.

Phil Bodger is a recording engineer, mixer, and producer with over three decades of experience across music, film, and radio/podcasting. He has worked with Maxi Priest, producing the US Billboard No.1 hit "Close to You," and contributed to Cathy Dennis' debut album Move to This.  UK chart successes include The Housemartins, The Lighthouse Family, The Proclaimers, and Paul Hardcastle. In film, Phil has recorded and mixed scores for Evelyn, Bride of The Wind, and Delovely, and provided on-set Pro Tools playback for Last Christmas, Aladdin, Fisherman’s Friends, and Marvel's Eternals. In the podcasting and radio industry, he collaborates with The Guardian, BBC, Audible, and NPR, with recent projects including Death at Deepcut and Reading Our Times for Theos Think Tank.

philbodger.com

Panel: 4pm Friday 13th September 2024

Sponsors: JAMES

Gary Bromham is a composer, artist, music producer and mix engineer. He has worked with many successful artists and songwriters including Bjork, George Michael, Sheryl Crow, Bow Wow Wow, The Tubes, Robbie Neville, Eddie Money and The Fixx. Gary teaches Production at the Academy of Contemporary Music, Guildford, UK. His PhD research thesis was entitled “Enveloping and Shaping the Sound: An empirical analysis of the perception of retro aesthetics in music production” (Queen Mary University London, 2023, in press). Recent publications investigate timbral perception, and include work on AI-based Intelligent Music Systems. Gary is currently tracking his forthcoming album at Real World studios in Bath, UK. His book ‘Distortion in Music Production’, co-edited with Austin Moore, is available now from Routledge. 

garybromham.com

Equally comfortable dealing with an artists' first ever release or with a seasoned pro's greatest hits, Katie's ability to bring out the best in a mix comes from her years of experience in studios, combined with her open communication with the artists, engineers and labels that trust her with their prized works.

Since starting in 2014, Katie has grown to become one of the most in-demand mastering engineers in the UK, and the breadth of her discography is testament to Katie’s versatility as an engineer. She is at home with everything from the heaviest metal to the lushest orchestral works and everything in between. A true lover of all music, Katie enjoys the challenge of taking on new styles and exploring new sonics.

Recent highlights: Rudimental, Bloc Party, Arlo Parks, Los Bitchos

https://www.weirdjungle.com/engineers/katietavini

Izzy McPhee is a junior engineer at the mastering collective Weird Jungle, based in Bristol. She is deeply connected to the city's vibrant music scene, drawing from a diverse musical upbringing that spanned genres from northern soul to britpop. Supported by  Saffron Music and Arts Council England, and mentored by senior engineers Katie Tavini and Stephen Kerrison, Izzy has amassed over 150 mastering credits in just two years, including work with  Walt Disco and Dream Wife. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Music Producer Guild’s ‘Rising Star’ award. Izzy is committed to increasing racial and gender diversity in the music industry and offers accessible services to self-funded and under-represented artists through her involvement in 2% Rising and Saffron’s online members club.

weirdjungle.com/engineers/izzy-mcphee

Ken Scott is a British record producer and engineer renowned for being one of the five main engineers for the Beatles, and for his work with artists including Elton John, Pink Floyd, and Procol Harum. As a producer, he is particularly noted for his collaboration with David Bowie on albums such as Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Aladdin Sane, and Pinups. Scott also produced for Supertramp on Crime of the Century and Crisis? What Crisis?, as well as for Devo, Kansas, and Level 42. He has earned a Clio award and two Grammy nominations for best-engineered pop album, and in 2010, he received a fellowship award from the Association of Professional Recording Services.

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