AUDIO+ is a three-day hybrid (in-person and live streamed) workshop gathering established audio engineer-scholars, students and young graduates, music producers and studio professionals, artists and others to build a community that engages in a critical dialogue on overcoming gender-, race- and class-based discrimination in the field of music production and audio engineering.

The AUDIO+ workshop schedule includes:

• student mixing/re-mixing competition
• audio mastering tutorial and demo with Graeme Brown (Zen Mastering)
• DIY synth building workshop in collaboration with the Garden City Electronic Music Society
• presentation on global music production with Dr. Abdoulaye Niang (Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal) and Muskoday First Nation rapper Eekwol
• performance and recording session that uses 3D headphone monitoring technology of Phillipe Leroux’s Voi(Rex), in collaboration with the Aventa New Music Ensemble and Klang.com
• Next generation audio processing with Duncan MacConnell and Ladan Golshanara of Tonz.ai
• Rethinking Signal Flow: Gender, audio education and professional development in the recording arts in Canada, a panel on Gender in Audio with Allison Sokil(University of Toronto), Margaret McGuffin (Music Publishers Canada), Marcela Rada (University of Lethbridge), and composer, producer and sound engineer Annelise Noronha
• keynote address featuring Annelise Noronha

Full schedule of events

AUDIO+ is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Reservations are required to attend in person and on Zoom. Visit the event website for RSVP links.

*As per BC Public Health orders, indoor mask mandates and proof of vaccination will be required. See further information about COVID protocols at the School of Music.