The Audio Recording Engineer Practicum of the Banff Centre mentored by James ClemensSeely hosts up to nine international participants to refine their technical and artistic skills in residencies from

The recording studio represents a creative workplace with audio technology that deserves more attention from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the

Amandine Pras introduces AFRINUM and the West African Audio Network partnerships. Paul Thompson characterizes three broad forms of learning methods in audio engineering and music production, namely

In this panel, we highlight how the templates within DAWs shape the digital practices of West African studio professionals who have had limited exposure to the culture of analog recording and

Éliézer Oubda presents the video making off of Bob Markey's One Love cover that he produced in his Hope Muziks Studio in Ouagadougou with local musicians, and singers and rappers from different

Dr. Eliot Bates (Graduate Centre, City University of New York), and  Éliézer Oubda (Hope Muziks Studio, Burkina Faso) share their experiences working and teaching within and around the confines of the

James Clemens-Seely presents a practical introduction to the merits and pitfalls of technical ear training as an approach to increasing critical listening and analytic skills in developing audio

Dr. Paul Thompson (Leeds-Beckett University, UK) and James Clemens-Seely (Banff Centre, Alberta) explore differing viewpoints on the benefits and limitations of using ‘Technical Ear Training’ (TET)

Issa Traoré alias Ken Lagaré taught Malian rhythms on the jembe and dundun to students and faculty of the Department of Music at the University of Lethbridge. Rhythms included the Bamana version of

Issa Traoré also known as Ken Lagare introduces this round table with a presentation of the evolution of his studio setup since he started engineering music productions in Bamako in 2008.

University of Lethbridge students Toby Bol, Kierian Turner, and Leonard Menon play short video montages that they edited from the video data that was collected by Amandine Pras and Emmanuelle Olivier

Adam Patrick Bell designed a methodology to compare production process across studios and countries.