Emily Evans

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Emily Evans is a sound engineer, music producer, recording studio director and musician. Since 2019, she has served as director of the Experimental Pop program at California Institute of the Arts, where she teaches courses including Production as Composition: The Studio as Instrument; Ambient and Otherworldly Music; Audio-Visual Theory and Practice and Global Studios and Audiotopias.

From 2006-2018, she directed The Green Door Studio, a community-access analog/digital recording studio in Glasgow, Scotland, which has been named Recording Studio of the Year (Scottish New Music Awards, 2010), was consistently ranked among the Top 100 Cultural Contributors in Scotland, and called “the beating heart of the Glasgow music scene,” by Resident Advisor. She has recorded and mixed over 100 albums and EP’s, 3 named in the top 10 for Scottish Album of the Year and 7 featured in Album of the Year lists in Wire magazine, The Vinyl Factory and The Quietus.

From 2014-18, she facilitated an international collaborative mobile recording project with musicians from Glasgow, Belize and Ghana. The resulting albums, Youth Stand Up! and Youth Stand United!, helped raise funds to establish the Tafi Cultural Institute and build a recording studio in Tafi Atome, Ghana.

She holds a Bachelors in Art:Semiotics from Brown University, a Master of Design in Sound for the Moving Image from Glasgow School of Art and a Postgraduate Certificate in Sonic Arts from the University of Glasgow.