Skills. Networks. Visibility

3 day production camp for female & gender minority producers and engineers working with topliners and songwriters

A networking event

A youtube content creation program

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Repost @ylvibr one of our Pathwaves participants was selected for the @adam_audio scholarship program! Here she is looking like a boss in Vienna at the VSL synchro stage studio control room. Legend 💪🏼

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We couldn’t have hoped for a better first edition of #PathwavesWorkshop last week! The team would like to give a shout out to @redbullmusicde for letting us use their amazing studios for the week. We’d also like to thank our sponsors @abl

On day three we finalised and mixed our tracks, followed by a listening session of all the music made during the three days. The quality of the outcome is extremely high and our participants should be very proud of themselves! Thanks to @ableton @neu

@janearnison’s top tips on developing your mixing, straight from her masterclass:

1. Develop and train your ears - musicians do ear training and so should engineers

2. Practice critical listening and deconstructing your favourite tunes

3. Re

“Music makes me feel emotions nothing else can” — #PathwavesParticipant @amollymae is a Berlin-based songwriter and artist from Finland who makes pop and r&b. Her musical influences (to name a few) are Tove Lo, Kehlani, Mabel an

A glimpse of what went down on day two of #PathwavesWorkshop 🎹✨ 📷 @kasiazacharko

#PathwavesParticipant Neeraja Narayan aka @naarimusic is a Berlin-based vocalist and songwriter from New Delhi, India. She’s been singing since she was first inspired by Classical Hindustani Music at three years old, and grew up learning Indian

American composer and sound artist @shannonseamusic and Australian electronic producer @aliceivymusic taking the lead on production in the control room 🎛 📷 @kasiazacharko

“Try to remix your own track - see how your song is still standing in a 6 minute environment” @steffi_dolly_klakson‘s masterclass was full of practical advice on arrangement and remixing this morning. Keep an eye out for it online s

**Pathwaves is a platform for supporting & developing female & gender minority engineers and producers**

SKILL: We start by supporting the development of the skill necessary to become a professional engineer and producer, by bringing together up and coming engineers, producers, and artists who will be mentored by proven industry experts in a studio environment creating commercially viable music

NETWORK: Then we create a networking opportunity by bringing to the studio members of the industry that are vital connections for engineers and producers wanting to work commercially - management, a&r, labels and publishing are all represented and will offer insights into what we need to do to be considered for jobs and offered opportunity for collaborations.

VISIBILITY: Finally we will document the experience as well as create bespoke content that we will upload to our instagram and importantly our youtube channel. This will include tech tips, mentor interviews - with the goal to start to equal the balance of online music tech content which is overwhelmingly male.

ISABEL GRACEFIELD

Isabel Gracefield is an engineer largely based at RAK Studios, with recent work including ‘The Show’ from BRIT Award winner Tom Walker’s number one album What A Time To Be Alive, mix work for multi-million selling artist Emeli Sande, engineering for Dua Lipa and strings engineering for Paloma Faith, Sigma, and Stormzy. Isabel co-writes, produces and mixes, and remains passionate about helping artists to achieve the results they are looking for regardless of genre.

STEFFI

Dutch-born Steffi, is a key figure in the realms of contemporary electronic music. As a resident at Panorama Bar, a respected producer (Ost Gut/Fabrique) and label owner (Klakson and Dolly imprints), her work embraces underground electronic culture in its many forms. With the experience that comes with promoting underground parties for many years, and running two record labels. Her work as a DJ, distinctive productions and sought after releases on her own labels all reflect a profound passion for celebrating the culture of contemporary electronic music.

JANE ARNISON

Jane Arnison in-demand multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer and recording/mix engineer, who relocated from Australia to Berlin several years ago. Jane uses her skill and experience to help artists and producers maximise the quality of their work, and has collaborated with Peaches, Berlin hero MIKEY, Canada’s Austra and many more. Her band Evvol's 2018 single ‘Release Me’ was slated on the highest-rotation playlist for Berlin’s Radio Eins.

Jane is a champion of women and gender minority in music, but specifically in the tech and more traditionally ‘male’ roles that often get left out of the spotlight. SongHubs x Path Waves marks Jane's first time running a producer camp, and she's looking forward to three days of geeking out in the studio.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The camp runs over 3 days Tuesday 5th - Thursday 7th November 2019

Each day has a loose running order:

Start 10AM: Masterclass - Everyone gathers together to wake up and get ready for the day and the mentors will speak to a theme that sets up the focus for the day.

11AM: Get to work - The participants organise into their groups have a chat with their mentor and then dive into making music

2PM: Lunch - Informal Lunch in the kitchen of the studio. Break chat and refresh before the afternoon session

3PM: Work again making sure to get finished intime!

6PM: Day ends.

DAILY THEME

RECORDING & CAPTURING IDEAS — DAY 1: Recording

The focus is on recording first up.
Whether you are in the large studio the small production room or upstairs with the synths, the focus is on refining your ideas, and then capturing them

DAY 2: Production

After recording the ideas, day 2 is an opportunity to further refine what we have captured.
It might include overdubs, or edits.
There might be significant sound design
There also could be heavy vocal production processes.
Whatever you are interested in and the song needs the mentors will guide you through this.

DAY 3: Mixing & Finalising

The song production is complete so now lets make it sparkle!
Mixing is the finishing touches and the detailed attention to how the sounds interact together to ensure you are bringing out the most in the song and that it is capturing the listener in the way you want.

Closing: Industry & Networking

On the final day we finish early to meet key industry players. We have the opportunity to ask them questions about how to develop and who to reach out to when we are ready to make the next step in our careers.
After that we open up the studio for a little party/ networking event where you can relax and reflect on the whirlwind day and meet many of the other amazing engineers, producers, songwriters, performers that call Berlin home.

“In any given collection society around the world, the number of female songwriters sits at around approx. 20% of the total membership. When looking at female producers, this number is dramatically less and feel their needs to be a greater focus on supporting programs like Pathwaves.”

— Adam Townsend, APRA AMCOS Europe

“Ableton is committed to supporting gender equality in the music industry and as part of this, we are pleased
to be one of the sponsors of the Pathwaves project as it aims to educate female music makers and raise their
competency levels in music production and engineering.”

— Katarina Becic, ABLETON

“We appreciate an event like this which is focussed towards those further along in their career not just starting out. We acknowledge that multifaceted support and infrastructure is needed to facilitate true change to the landscape of technicians working in our industry. At ADAM we are focussed on gender equality in the music industry and are proud to be a sponsor of this event”

— Malte Grubbner, ADAM AUDIO

“I am excited to be a part of this, as I believe its important to support and develop upcoming talent. It’s my honour to be asked to do so.”

— Steffi, DJ & Producer (Ostgut Ton/Klakson) & Pathwaves Mentor