Well the reason I haven’t posted in a few days is that I have been busy with 5 birthdays, including my wife’s, and I have been helping my wife get ready to attend the GRAMMY Awards next Wednesday. This is no small task either. In fact I think I need a math degree just to figure out the cost of this event. My cost that is! We are talking about a new dress, new shoes, new purse, new sunglasses…the list goes on. We are not yet at the hair/make-up sequence either or the two days and nights in Los Angeles.
While all this was going on I couldn’t help but think about a few of the enormous engineering tasks and talent that goes into pulling off an event like the GRAMMYs. Just looking at what it takes to get my wife ready which is comparatively nothing to the work required to broadcast the awards to the public or the technical equipment deployed I see that my job is really quite simple. It is fitting that since 2000 the Academy recognizes the engineers behind the scene.
In late 2000, the Recording Academy initiated the Producers & Engineers Wing, a national membership division of the Academy established for producers, engineers, remixers, manufacturers, and other related creative and technical professionals in our community The P&E Wing provides the Academy with a vehicle to reach a specific constituency, to craft advocacy positions, and to better address the daily concerns of these professionals.
More than 6,000 professional producers, engineer, remixers, manufacturers and technologists — from across the United States and around the world — comprise the Producers & Engineers Wing.
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