Meet natalia perelman | Music producer, mix and mastering engineer. Public culture management.

We had the good fortune of connecting with natalia perelman and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi natalia, we’d love to hear about how you approach risk and risk-taking
Every time that I had to take a risk in my career it was because something I that I had been doing so far was coming to an end, something had to change, even though I might have not been completely aware of it back then. However, I don’t usually use “risk” in my vocabulary, since I’m a competitive person, I prefer to call it challenge, which is a very suggestive idea for me. I know that I’m not being very original by saying that accepting challenges or taking new paths in your career or life brings inevitable growth but anyways, that has proven right for me.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
One of the features that I think makes my job stands out is commitment since the day that I get hired until the day I deliver the master (or sometimes longer). It is extremely important that my customers end up the as happy as they can be, and that the result we achieve exceeds their expectations. The path that I led me here today was not easy at all. I feel that it is just now, after 24 years of experience, that I started being recognized and more visible to the industry and still I feel I don’t have the same opportunities my male colleagues get. It is harder to get hired to work with well known or popular artists when you are a female producer or engineer, there is still chauvinism and many barriers to break down.
In 2018 I founded an association of women in sound, and our main goal was to to position women in the music business, build a supportive network for students and girls who were just starting in the field and make professional leaders and pioners more visible. That network was also key to my personal and professional development, since it gave me the chance to contact with other colleagues in my country and around the world, made me feel less lonely and made me stand out in the audio and music production field in my country.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
The possibilities of culture and entertainment in Buenos Aires are endless. The landscape that the city offers in terms of the variety of trees and its developed architecture allow tourists to have long walks in neighborhoods such as Palermo, La Boca, Villa Devoto (where I live), and San Telmo, with the historic and very colonial casque, just to name a few of the most colorful neighborhoods in town. The city is very cosmopolitan and its gastronomic offer is widely varied, but I would definitely go to have a pizza (unique argentinian style), meat or pasta. Since at the beginning of the XX there was a huge Italian immigration, we have many Italian restaurants, but with an argentinian flavor to it.
Buenos Aires night life is very exciting, we get dinner very late, and usually after going to the theater, since there are hundreds of independent and main stream theater plays. The musical scene is very rich, too, and you can go and see a tango show or a rock concert at almost any day of the week.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I want to thank the network of colleagues —that somewhere in the path ended up as friends— who worked with me building RMS, a non-profit organization that seeks gender equality and visibility for female and non-conforming gender students and professionals in the field of sound and music production in Argentina, they have stood by me in many ways since we’ve met in 2018. There was also a very hard time in my life when I got divorced and had to quit working for the music industry because mixing and recording sessions implied working long hours (quite often at night). That is very impractical when you’re raising your child practically on your own, so for a couple of years I had to get a job as a teacher in a primary school where I had a similar timetable to the one my daughter had. When I finally got somebody who could help me with her, I had become very insecure of being left behind in the business or not being good enough for the task. It was precisely at that time (10 years ago, now) when I met Ernesto Romeo, a teacher who helped me regain confidence in myself and rebuild my career one more time; he is also one of the greatest experts of music synthesis in the world and somebody to whom I will be forever grateful.

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