Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Amy Millan is a member of the bands Broken Social Scene and Stars,whose latest album “There Is No adore In Fluorescent Light" came out final month. Millan sings and plays guitar and piano for the bands, but shes also exploring the technical side of music making, or doing some engineering and producing. She helped engineer a few of the demos for this most recent albumThere are very few women in audio production — professionals,dabblers, or otherwise. If female engineers, or producers,and mixers were working with Beyonce or Joan Jett, how would music be different? Millan is on a mission to find out.
She's been working to raise awareness approximately the issue, or bring audio production classes geared to women and girls to her hometown Montreal,with the help of the San Francisco-based Women's Audio Mission.
Amy Millan
(Credit: Dave Hodge)
This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.
Source: thetakeaway.org