“Isaac made the key to this podcast festival—high quality live recordings—so pro, so rad, and so smooth. Without Isaac managing the sound team it would have been all terror and fire and awful.” —Shauna Noah, festival organizer
"The sound crews worked around whatever environment they had, whether it was the large echoing room Food 4 Thot was in or the small narrow bar HORSE was in, and made the audio enjoyable and comprehensible; I’ve been to plenty of talks and shows in strange buildings or rooms where the audio ends up far too echoey, or clipped, or faded." —Elena Fernández-Collins for Bello Collective
Role: Technical Director
Listen Up Festival brings internationally known podcasters and pairs them with iconic Portland locations to tell the stories of our food, booze, humans, and culture. For this inaugural festival, high quality sound and audio recording across all venues was a critical element.
Kickass Conferences managed the technical aspects of 17 shows across 4 days. This meant hiring a team of sound engineers, working with the podcast producers to determine their needs, and managing the budget to deliver great in-room sound and professional multitrack recordings.
Key Responsibilities: technical direction, sound team management, subcontracting, budget management, on-site production
Photos by: Casey Campbell Photography