ESession Event in NYC
Last week I attended an event put on by the Recording Academy that spotlighted ESession, which is an Web-based company that facilitates the hiring of studio talent (musicians, mix engineers, producers) for remote sessions. The idea is to give clients a choice of “A-List” talent to hire for their home-recorded projects. Not only does ESession’s Web-based interface help you find and hire talent, it also facilitates the exchange and storage of your session files (through FTP), which is key in a remote-recording situation.
The event took place at the XM Radio studios in Manhattan,which are located in the beautiful new Jazz at Lincoln Center facility overlooking Central Park. ESession is a result of a partnership between recording engineer and singer/songwriter Gina Fant-Saez and renowned producer/engineer Kevin Killen. Killen has worked with such artists as U2, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Paula Cole, Amos Lee, Duncan Sheik, Shakira, and many more.
Fant-Saez and Killen both addressed the gathering, and demos of ESession were given every 15 minutes in one of the studios. I had a chance to talk to them at length about how ESession works. LISTEN to the interview. WATCH a video of Fant-Saez and Killen speaking at the event.
