A new mini-documentary has hit YouTube, exploring the representation of women in the music industry. In Ctrl: A Journey into Music Production was created by musician and YouTuber Liina Turtonen and founder of Music Production for Women (MPW) Xylo Aria.
The documentary covers the discrimination, micro-aggressions, sexual harassment and casual sexism women who work in music production face. The documentary also features guest appearances by MPG-award winning recording engineer Olga FitzRoy and Ableton Certified trainer Mel Uye Parker.
In Ctrl explores the early journey of Hannah Coombes as she takes on her first steps of becoming a music producer. It also explains some of her insecurities and doubts about being a woman in the industry along with statistics around the representation of women. The documentary includes the statistic from Annenberg Inclusion Initiative that states that over a six-year period only 2% of producers in the top 600 Billboard songs were women.
Speaking about the documentary, Xylo Aria said; “It took me a long time to even consider producing music and I can’t really explain why that was, but I feel like seeing a documentary like this at that time, would definitely have given me some positive encouragement to at least take the first steps.”
Liina added; “When I started production I felt so alone with my fears about tech, which made me feel powerless. I hope anyone who sees this documentary can realise how many of us have gone through the same path and it’s normal to feel scared…and you will never be alone.”
The documentary shows the journey of Hannah’s first single that she produced herself, Good Life. The song will be available soon. She is also apart of a duo called PELA with fellow artist Olly Shelton. Together they have released singles Here’s Where The Story Ends, Rolloverme, All The Way, In The Young, Reviere, South of and You Got Me.
Liina “LNA” Turtonen is a music producer, songwriter, and performer based in York, UK. Liina launched her YouTube channel, LNA Does Audio Studd in 2019. She makes a lot of content about music such as tutorials and challenges. Her following has grown massively since then, she currently has 14k subscribers. Liina runs her own education platform, ‘Equalise Music Production’. Equalise is a female-led organisation focussed on bringing equality to the audio industry by providing courses and workshops in music production, songwriting, and performance.
Xylo Aria is a singer, producer and entrepreneur. Xylo is the founder of Music Production for Women. MPW is a global movement, community and online learning platform which aims to encourage and empower women who are taking their first steps into music production. MPW offers an Introduction to Music Production course as well as live workshops throughout the UK and Europe.
In Crtl is available now on Liina’s YouTube channel, you can check it out below.
