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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE PRODUCERS & ENGINEERS WING AND NEW YORK CHAPTER
OF THE RECORDING ACADEMY® HOSTED
IN THE MIX® WITH eSESSION.COM
Producer/Mixers Jimmy Douglass, Ernie Lake and Dave O'Donnell with
P&E Wing Executive Director Maureen Droney Presented
"New Alternatives For Professional Recording"
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Demonstrating its
ongoing commitment to keeping its members at the cutting edge of professional
audio technology and techniques, the Producers & Engineers Wing
and The New York Chapter of The Recording Academy®, in association
with eSession.com and XM Productions-Effanel Music, presented an evening
of networking that introduced a standing-room-only crowd to a new form
of musical collaboration. eSession.com, an Internet-enabled, software-based
system that allows musicians, producers, mixers and engineers to work
together regardless of geography, time zone or computer operating system,
co-sponsored the event entitled "New Alternatives For Professional
Recording," which took place on June 14 at the Fredrick P. Rose
Hall, Studio A, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
After Randy Ezratty, Senior Vice President of XM Productions-Effanel
Music, and Elizabeth Healy, Executive Director of the Academy's New
York Chapter, welcomed the crowd, Maureen Droney, Executive Director
of the P&E Wing, reaffirmed The Recording Academy's mission to continue
to bring the music and recording community together. "The music
business has been steadily evolving, and The Academy's P&E Wing
has done the same," Droney stated. "We are constantly looking
for new technologies and methodologies to keep our members informed,
and to give them the critical advantages they need to remain successful
in this fast-changing world. The eSession.com team has worked long and
hard to develop an innovative product that they feel will not only generate
business for its users, but also help bring the recording community
together."
During the course of ongoing demos in Studio A, leading
members of the eSession.com team, including company co-founder Kevin
Killen, a five-time GRAMMY® winner, showed groups of attendees how
eSession.com can help remove time and space barriers to musical collaboration.
As Killen and eSession.com co-founder and CEO Gina Fant-Saez demonstrated,
eSession's Internet portal handles matching talent to projects, negotiating
costs, and technical facilitation, ultimately expediting the creative
process.
"eSession.com combines talent and technology creating
a much wider world in which to work and collaborate," Fant-Saez
told attendees. "For artists, it's a chance to work with musical
talent, producers, engineers and mixers in a way they have not had access
to before. And for these individuals, it's an opportunity to increase
their revenues and range of work by providing them the possibility of
a worldwide client base. It's our goal to help bring together a global
music community and allow anyone, anywhere to collaborate like never
before."
Photo File: PE_esession_grp1.jpg
Photo Caption: Shown from L–R: Engineer/producer Dave O'Donnell,
P&E Wing Executive Director Maureen Droney, Engineer/producers Frank
Filipetti, Kevin Killen; and Jim Anderson and Katherine Flatt of NYU's
Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music
Photo Courtesy of The Recording Academy®/WireImage.com ©2007
Photographed by: Gary Gershoff/WireImage
Photo File: PE_esession_grp2.jpg
Photo Caption: Shown from L–R: Executive Director of The Recording
Academy's New York Chapter Elizabeth Healy, engineer/producer Jimmy
Douglass, eSession.com co-founder/CEO Gina Fant-Saez, eSession co-founder
Kevin Killen, P&E Wing Executive Director Maureen Droney, Senior
Vice President of XM Productions-Effanel Music Randy Ezratty, Engineer/producer
Dave O'Donnell and Engineer/Producer Ernie Lake.
Photo Courtesy of The Recording Academy®/WireImage.com ©2007
Photographed by: Gary Gershoff/WireImage
Established in 1957, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences,
Inc., also known as The Recording Academy, is an organization of musicians,
producers, engineers and recording professionals that is dedicated to
improving the cultural condition and quality of life for music and its
makers. Internationally known for the GRAMMY® Awards, The Recording
Academy is responsible for groundbreaking professional development,
cultural enrichment, advocacy, education and human services programs
— including the creation of the national public education campaign
What's The Download® (WhatsTheDownload.com®). For more information
about The Academy, please visit www.grammy.com.
Currently, 6,000 professionals comprise the Producers
& Engineers Wing, which was established for producers, engineers,
remixers, manufacturers, technologists, and other related creative and
technical professionals in the recording community. This organized voice
for the recording community addresses issues that affect the craft of
recorded music, while ensuring its role in the development of new technologies,
recording and mastering recommendations, and archiving and preservation
initiatives. For more information, please visit www.producersandengineers.com.
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