Leslie Gaston Bird is an audio engineer who’s work spans from mixing for likes of Todd Rundgren to working for NPR & innovating the live performance broadcast world. She did this by being the first audio engineer to actually record live bands playing live and sync the audio rather than just getting them to mime to their song. I thought this was really cool that she was one of the first people to do this. In my head it makes me think about innovation and how often innovation can lie just underneath our noses but we may never realise it. I like how she described sound as an art form as well as a science, this sparked a debate in my head where I came to the conclusion that science is art as without it art could not exist. She also spoke heavily about her use of Dolby to create 3D spaces and how useful it is as an audio engineer and sound designer as it is very helpful in creating tangible environments within sound.
