AES New York 2019 Presenter or Author
Amandine Pras
Primary Affiliation: Digital Audio Arts - University of Lethbridge - Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Secondary Affiliation: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences - Paris, France
Amandine Pras is an Assistant Professor of Digital Audio Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, and an Associate Researcher of Centre Georg Simmel at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. Her research examines the impact of globalized digital technologies on worldwide audio and music practices from esthetic, cultural, and political perspectives. She started conducting an ethnography of Bamako recording studios with Ethnomusicologist Emmanuelle Olivier in July 2018. The past year, she presented her video documentary A Home Away From Home around the world, based on a cross-cultural experiment that she carried out with four world-class improvisers in West Bengal at the end of her postdoctoral residency at The New School for Social Research in New York. Amandine completed her PhD thesis at McGill about best practices for studio recording in the digital era. Graduate from the Advanced music production program (FSMS) of the Paris Conservatoire, she produced albums and curated live events with artists as diverse as Michael Attias, Jim Black, Quatuor Bozzini, Luciane Cardassi, Daniel Carter, Sougata Roy Chowdhury, Nels Cline, Benoit Delbecq, Mary Halvorson, Tony Malaby, the Metropolis Ensemble, Andy Milne, William Parker, Satoshi Takeishi, and Terri Witek.
Session List
Oct 17:
P09: Posters: Applications in Audio
Is Binaural Spatialization the Future of Hip-Hop? (Author)
Oct 19:
P15: Audio Education (Chair)
Production Processes of Pop Music Arrangers in Bamako, Mali (Author)
The Generation Gap—Perception and Workflow of Analog vs. Digital Mixing (Author)