Press
Award Nominations
2024: MPSE Golden Reel Awards: Publish or Perish
2019: Heartland Emmy, Too Many White Teacups
2017 Utah Film Festival: Klocked
Accolades
Sound Design
Rent-a-Pal: "Sound design is also exceptional, highlighting clear creative direction and intent with the use of every noise, from the background static to the shunting and clunking of videotapes. Sound is a key aspect of understanding who David is, with subtle shifts in his link to the tapes presented through the clarity of the tape’s audio, which becomes clearer as David is increasingly captivated by what he sees. The sound design really shines during the film's climax to create a truly terrifying moment, backed by Folkin's unhinged presence, a sequence best experienced without any sort of spoilers."
-Sabastian Astley, "The Digital Fix"
https://www.thedigitalfix.com/en-us/film/film-review/rent-a-pal-film-review
Rent-a-Pal: "...it’s the way that the sound moves and changes in the film that works the best. Andy’s voice, in particular, is sometimes inside of and sometimes outside of the television, a device that unsettles you early on and starts you questioning almost from the start how much of Andy is real and how much is imagined. Shout out to the sound department of Aaron DelGrosso and Leslie Gaston for their work here."
-Alison Pitt, "Daily Star Trek News"
Interview Links
Podcasts
Working Class Audio
Host: Matt Boudreau
https://www.workingclassaudio.com/wca-302-with-leslie-gaston-bird/
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS)
Hosts: Owen Peters, Owen Shirley
https://soundcloud.com/user-663870646/amps-podcast-6-lgb-v2
SoundGirls 8/18/2020
With Beckie Campbell and Susan Williams
https://soundgirlspod.podbean.com/e/leslie-gaston-bird/
With Bobby Owsinski
https://bobbyowsinskiblog.com/2020/02/25/episode-306-leslie-gaston-bird/
https://bobbyoinnercircle.com/?powerpress_pinw=2214-podcast
https://soundgirlspod.podbean.com/e/leslie-gaston-bird/
Twenty Thousand Hertz (20k.org )
TBA 2021, Host: Dallas Taylor
Presentations
RadioTechCon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFi1hdxSds
Print
LESLIE GASTON-BIRD ON PUBLIC RADIO, SYMPHONIC RECORDING, RACIAL AND GENDER EQUITY IN AUDIO
Women in Sound
February 12 2018 by Madeline Campbell
https://www.womeninsound.com/issue-5/leslie-gaston-bird
"Leslie Gaston Bird: Women In Audio"
ICMP
March 5, 2020 by Jim Ottewill
https://www.icmp.ac.uk/blog/leslie-gaston-bird-women-audio
January 1 2017
"Leslie Gaston-Bird – Audio Engineer"
Femmusic.com
https://femmusic.com/wp/index.php/2017/01/01/leslie-gaston-bird-audio-engineer/
"Mix Messiah – Leslie Gaston-Bird":
https://soundgirls.org/mix-messiah-leslie-gaston-bird/
"AES Diversity and Inclusion Committee sets goals"
Resolution Magazine
October 2018
https://www.resolutionmag.com/news/aes-diversity-and-inclusion-committee-sets-goals/
Trade Articles Written by Leslie
Monitor Level Calibration - How To Undertake a Stop-Gap Monitor Calibration That Doesn't Trash Your Pro Tools Session, Pro Tools Expert
Piper Payne, Mastering Engineer, Sound on Sound
Foley across continents, Resolution Magazine V17.6
Making Music Videos Live on Location, Sound on Sound
Scholarly Articles Written by Leslie
2014 Gaston, L. et al (2014) Case study: University Recording Arts Program seeks to Educate, Engage and Recruit High School Students. Convention Paper TBA. 137t h Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. Los Angeles.
2010 Gaston, L. et al. (2010) The Influence of Individual Audio Impairments on Perceived Video Quality. Convention Paper 8151. 128t h Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. London.
2010 Rodigast, Rene and Gaston, Leslie (2010) The Sound of Space: A Look at the History and Future of Audio in Planetariums. International Planetarium Society Conference 2010. Alexandria, Egypt.
2008 Gaston, L et al. (2008) Methods for Sharing Stereo and Multichannel Audio among Planetariums. Convention Paper 7474. 124t h Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2007 Gaston, L. and Sanders, R. (2007) Evaluation of HE-AAC, AC-3, and E-AC-3 Codecs. Convention Paper 7049 . 122n d Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. V ienna, Austria.
2007 Yu, Ka Chun et al. (2007) Gaia Journeys: A Museum-Based Immersive Performance Exploration of Earth. Proceedings of the 5t h International Symposium on Digital Earth, June 5-9, Berkeley, CA.
2006 Gaston, L. and Sanders, R. (2006) Drei Mehrkanal Codecs im Vergleich. Proceedings of the 24 th V erband Deutscher Tonmeister conference. L eipzig, Germany.
2006 Gaston, L. (2006) Tactile Strategies and Resources for Teaching Multichannel Sound Concepts. Convention paper 6689. 120t h C onvention of the Audio Engineering Society . Paris, France.
Leslie's Social Media Links
Leslie’s AES Profile: https://www.aes.org/aes/lesliegaston
Leslie on Twitter: @MixMessiahProd
Leslie on Instagram: @leslie.gaston
Leslie’s Book: Women in Audio https://amzn.to/33XF4R6
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