A five-day Sound Engineering Workshop, the first of its kind in Dominica, is expected to fill some of the gaps that are affecting the local music industry, organizers say.
“The main objective of the workshop is to address what the National Export Strategy has identified as one of the major gaps in our music industry, which is the lack of trained personnel in the field of sound engineering,” Executive Director of the Dominica Coalition of Service Industries (DCSI), Lester Riviere said during the start of the workshop at the Dominica State College on Monday.
He pointed out that although the music industry in Dominica has been at the forefront in terms of innovation, the technical aspect of music production has lagged.
“Further the National Export Strategy identifies the lack of trained personnel in the field of Sound Engineering as one of the leading factors impeding the commercial success of this industry,” he noted.
Riviere pointed out that such a workshop has been in the planning phase for a long time and it is a relief to see it become a reality.
“We have been in the planning phase of this workshop for quite some time and it is indeed a relief to finally see this come to fruition,” he remarked.
Facilitator, Basil Lai of Basil Lai Entertainment Ltd of Trinidad and Tobago, described the workshop as “broad-based,” meaning participants can decide to specialize in various fields of sound engineering, such as recording, audio, video and so on.
He said all of these fields are “components of a functional industry that relies on creative products to be successful.”
“So this is a very, very foundation course that we are hoping to develop and with the very short time that we have been here so far, we have already gotten a lot of enthusiasm from those that we have been in touch with and we are looking forward to a successful week,” he said.
President of the Association of Music Professionals (AMP) McCathy Marie, who also addressed the brief ceremony, mentioned that there will be continuous assessment of participants in the course of the workshop and on the final day (Friday), they will showcase their newly acquired skills in the form of a live band.
Participants are expected to receive a competency certificate upon completion of the workshop.
he was actually appointed by the PM in 2006
Since most of the serious musicians and sound engineers have 8 to 4 jobs, exactly who’s attending this thing?
EXACTLY!!!!!!!…..
The sound equipment needed for Audio Mastering does not exists in DA even in the best of sound studios we currently have. Why you think Michele and others that know better ALWAYS do their post production work outside DA!!!!!!So we get a good quality recorded DEMO which needs further work. Brilliant and good job guys but unfortunately the majority of local artist do not go that extra mile to get a good quality International product be it stemming from limited project financing or don’t care (it good so) attitude. EQing sound decibel levels to that of radio waves is so critical in getting a product that will be accepted on the Int market. Give one of dem not qualified sound engineers a SOUNDLAB and see what type of quality music will be coming out of DA
one set that in that workshop, and they never mentioned that they are only registering 30 persons.. thats crap
So Lester Riviere come now nuh? Mister pushing to improve the quality of bouyon music, candance and souk? Oh ! Will you patronise the entertainment music industry, Mr. Riviere?
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a good move, but this needs to be ongoing program, the government of dominica if the were serious would invest in a program at the state college for this…
under the economic citizenship monies program, but again it’s dominica they lack the ability to ensure things are correctly.
Let us hope the Sound Technicians at the Arawak are taking part and learning something.
what that have to do with the topic at hand…slow bus rider!!!
Dominica needs growth , the music business grows every day , but a few years ago their was a major Music Exec In Dominica who explain the business ,were is him, who now is a Major Music Face in USA .