- Gaston-Bird, L. (2024). It’s immersive, but is it inclusive? Representology: the Journal of Media and Diversity, 6(6), pp. 40–47.
- Yu, K.C., Williams, K., Neafus, D., Gaston, L. and Downing, G. (2009). Gaia Journeys: a museum-based immersive performance exploration of the Earth. International Journal of Digital Earth, 2(1), pp. 44–58. doi:10.1080/17538940902745951.
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About
Overview
Dr. Leslie Gaston-Bird CAS, MPSE is President-Elect of the Audio Engineering Society and a Pro Tools | Dolby Professional Avid Certified Instructor and Dante Level-3 Certified audio engineer specializing in rerecording mixing and sound editing. She is author of the book Women in Audio, part of the AES Presents series published by Focal Press (Routledge). She is an Avid Certified Dolby Atmos Professional and Dante Level-3 Certified audio engineer working as a freelance re-recording mixing (dubbing) and sound editing under the banner Mix Messiah Productions. As Supervising Sound Editor and Re-Recording Mixer, she was also nominated for an MPSE Golden Reel award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound for a Non-Theatrical Feature for her work on Publish or Perish, a dark comedy by David Liban. She is also a voting member of the Recording Academy (The Grammys®) and its P&E (Producers and Engineers) Wing. She earned her PhD from the University of Surrey for her dissertation "Immersive but not Inclusive", for which she received support from Innovate UK's Women in Innovation programme. From 2016-2018, she was Vice President, Western Region (US & Canada) for the AES, followed by a term as Governor-at-Large. She was the inaugural chair of the AES Diversity and Inclusion (now DEI) Committee. 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 has presented several papers at AES conferences, incuding 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)).
Publications
Publications by category
Books (2)
- Gaston-Bird, L. (2019). Women in Audio. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-31599-0.
- Gaston-Bird, L. (2019). Math Fundamentals for Audio. A-R Editions, Inc.. ISBN 978-0-89579-837-4.
Conference papers and proceedings (10)
- Gaston-Bird, L., Pras, A. and Brereton, J. (2024). Hearing the Unheard. 156th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society 15-17 June, Madrid, Spain.
- McArthur, A., Tonder, C.V., Gaston-Bird, L. and Knight-Hill, A. (2021). A survey of 3D audio through the browser: practitioner perspectives. 2021 Immersive and 3D Audio: from Architecture to Automotive (I3DA) 8-10 September. doi:10.1109/i3da48870.2021.9610839
- Gaston-Bird, L., Mason, R. and De Sena, E. (2021). Inclusivity in immersive audio: Current participation and barriers to entry.
- Gaston-Bird, L., Bregitzer, L. and Rome, L. (2014). Case study: University recording arts program seeks to educate, engage and recruit high school students.
- Gaston, L., Boley, J., Selter, S. and Ratterman, J. (2010). The influence of individual audio impairments on perceived video quality.
- Gaston, L. and Sanders, R. (2008). Evaluation of HE-AAC, AC-3, and E-AC-3 codecs.
- Gaston, L., Dougall, P., Merkel, J. and Thompson, E.D. (2008). Methods for sharing stereo and multichannel recordings among planetariums.
- Gaston, L. and Sanders, R. (2007). Evaluation of HE-AAC, AC-3, and E-AC-3 codecs.
- Gaston, L. (2006). Tactile strategies and resources for teaching multichannel sound concepts.
- 154th Audio Engineering Society Convention. 154th Audio Engineering Society Convention.doi:10.17743/aesconf.2022.978-1-942220-41-1
Journal articles (2)
Thesis/dissertation
- Gaston-Bird, L. Immersive but not Inclusive: Challenges Faced by Underrepresented Groups in Immersive Audio. (PhD)