Professor Martha de Francisco is part of McGill's Bicentennial Digital Time Capsule
Martha de Francisco, Associate Professor of Sound Recording in the department of Music Research at the Schulich School of Music, is a record producer and recording engineer specializing in Classical music. Her research interests include music recording with virtual acoustics, critical listening studies and the aesthetics of recorded music.
She is an internationally acknowledged leader in the field of sound recording and record production, and has recorded with some of the greatest classical musicians of our time for the major record labels and in the best concert halls. Prof de Francisco joins some of McGill’s top researchers in a Digital Time Capsule where she shares her answer to the question: What will be the biggest change in your field over the next 25 years?
Time capsules offer the unique opportunity to capture a snapshot of an era while imagining possible futures, and it's exciting to have music research be a part of the conversation. After 200 years of trail-blazing research and innovation, McGill continues to look ahead in this unique McGill Bicentennial project.
Watch Professor Martha de Francisco’s Time Capsule on YouTube to find out about the possibilities of immersive audio and how interdisciplinary research will continue advancing our understanding of how music works.
Prof de Francisco also joined BBC Radio 3 for their programme “Music Matters,” an exploration of the stories that matter, the people that matter and the music that matters. The March 5, 2022 episode includes a look at female sound engineers and record producers — a role traditionally associated with men.
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Though we find ourselves in a digital age where time capsules no longer need to be buried underground but can instead be concealed in the virtual cloud — they can still be sealed up! Be sure to watch the predictions from researchers across campus before the time capsule is shut tight on December 31, 2021, only reopening slowly over the next 10 years.
You can join in the conversation by sharing your predictions for the future of innovation at McGill using the hashtag #McGill200 on Twitter and Instagram.
