I caught up with music producer and audio engineer queen - Becki Whitton (Aphir)!  We spoke about the many challenges artists have faced during lockdown in Australia - one of them being no shows and trying to connect with not only your audience but your music network/friends. 

Aphir is a well established audio engineer who has not only produced some amazing work of her own but has also produced, mixed and mastered a plethora of music (including my tracks). In this episode, she describes how being an introvert during lockdown made her fear that she would lose her person skills - the skills she has worked hard on to be able to make artists feel comfortable while being in the studio recording with her. This was a huge part of why Becki decided to stream content - as a way to interact with others and keep her people skills up! Becki gravitated towards Instagram stories as a way to not only generate content but to also give production and mixing tips. Quickly realising that Instagram wasn't the best platform for this as she couldn't easily show her computer screen where she uses Pro-Tools and Ableton she moved to Twitch - a platform traditionally used by gamers. 

Not only has Twitch allowed her to bring people on her journey of writing and producing her third album but it has let her show aside to her music that she likes more. Becki describes the pressure of a release day and how much is put into one day of releasing music, whereas for an artist the joy of writing music is generally the more fun moment and a side you rarely actually get to see. 

Listen to the full episode to find out how Twitch is a great platform for artists or check out the video here: https://youtu.be/2CIRVC9YcWg

You can find Becki here: 
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/aphir_/videos
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aphir_/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aphirism 
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5FjAJK7JsaOahbaAwIxtE4?si=S4LLGjcXSHS-E1e8IiiTMA