About me
Dr. Leslie Gaston-Bird (AMPS, MPSE) is President of the Audio Engineering Society and author of the books "Women in Audio", part of the AES Presents series and published by Focal Press (Routledge); and Math for Audio Majors (A-R Editions). She is a voting member of the Recording Academy (The Grammys®) and its P&E (Producers and Engineers) Wing. She is a Senior Lecturer at City, University of London as well as a freelance re-recording (dubbing) mixer and sound editor, and owner of Mix Messiah Productions which specializes in 5.1 surround mixing. Prior to that, she was a tenured Associate Professor of Recording Arts at the University of Colorado Denver (2005-2018) where she also served as Chair of the Department of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies. She led groups of Recording Arts students in study abroad courses in England, Germany, and Italy which included participation in AES Conventions. Leslie has done research on audio for planetariums, multichannel audio on Blu-Ray, and a comparison of multichannel codecs that was published in the AES Journal (Gaston, L. and Sanders, R. (2008), "Evaluation of HE-AAC, AC-3, and E-AC-3 Codecs", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society of America, 56(3)).
