Month: June 2016

Event Recap: Gender Amplified In-School Seminar at Frederick Douglass Academy

On March 31, Gender Amplified partnered with The Apollo Theater Education Program’s (ATEP) In-School Career Seminars (ISCS) to offer a music production workshop to students at the Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, New York City. The workshop, entitled “STEM Learning: Dissecting The Music Track,” covered the ways in which science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects…



Alicia Keys Creates Tracks Live On Stage at BET Awards

  Alicia Keys took the stage to perform one of her new hit “In Common” at the 2016 BET Awards held at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday, June 26th in Los Angeles. For years, the 35­-year­-old entertainer and performer has dazzled fans with her electrifying stage show, but this time things were a little different. Surrounded by numerous…



Producer Spotlight: Grimes Just Wants to Do Her Job!

by Ebonie Smith

  Canadian producer Grimes is on a mission to use music technology to express an artistic narrative that has grown out of her control. In this candid interview for The FADER, Grimes discusses the importance of being in control of her sonic narrative. In reference to self-­producing her own music, she expresses, “I don’t want to just be…



On the RISE: Producer Stoni Profiled by ROLI

In a piece entitled “On the RISE: Music is life – Stoni,” ROLI recently profiled Gender Amplified Alumna Stoni demonstrating the new Seaboard RISE musical instrument. ROLI is a design­-led technology start ­up expanding the bandwidth of interaction between people and technology. Read an excerpt from the article below: “There’s no stage in your life…



Erin Tonkon Engineers New Album by Esperanza Spalding & More

In 2013, Gender Amplified interviewed Erin Tonkon, a budding music producer attending the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. She spoke eloquently about her passion for making music and her goals for her career. Since that time, Erin has emerged to become one of the new faces in the world of rock music production. Shortly after our interview…



Artist Spotlight: Gender Amplified Alumna Genesis Be Breaks Barriers on Stage and at U.S. Capitol

Gender Amplified alumna Genesis Be, who was a performer at our 2013 music festival, recently shocked the world with her performance at S.O.B’s in NYC. In protest of Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s proclamation of April as Confederate Heritage Month, Be draped her body in the Confederate battle flag and hung a noose around her neck during her…



Producers on the Rise: Pharrell Co-signs Maggie Rogers

Pharrell Williams stopped by New York University’s Clive Davis Institute for a sitdown with students and legendary engineer Bob Power. What happened was nothing short of magical. Check out the interplay between Williams and emerging producer Maggie Rogers in this amazing studio interview!     Maggie Rogers is a star on the rise. It may seem…