Omni Sound Project is a female-owned education center offering affordable audio engineering classes and private lessons, presented by female-identifying and gender non-conforming teachers. As a business, we are committed to offering financial support to Girls Rock Austin through our fundraising efforts and personal contributions.

We are dedicated to being the most accessible point of entry to the music and audio industries, providing opportunities for learning to under-represented communities, and spotlighting the talents of female identifying, trans, and gender non-conforming audio professionals.

All genders are invited to attend our online educational events. Female identifying, trans, and gender non-conforming people may become members of the Omni Sound Project for access to studio tours, interviews, and in-person events.

2021 Core Faculty

Cinnamon Denise

Cinnamon Denise is a musician, artist, songwriter, and audio engineer. She believes that music should be accessible to all and presented in a non-intimidating way. With a Master's degree in Music Technology Innovation from Berklee College of Music, Cinnamon Denise currently resides in Austin, Texas.

Annlie Huang

Annlie Huang is an audio professional based in Los Angeles with experience in production and post-production for both music and film. She previously worked as a mix tech at The Walt Disney Studios, with credits including Mulan, Frozen 2, and Avengers: End Game. Currently, she is part of the music editorial team for streaming content at Marvel Studios. Annlie also works independently as a mix engineer – collaborating with artists to make potent songs even more powerful. Annlie holds a B.F.A. in Performing Arts Technology and a B.S. in Sound Engineering from the University of Michigan. 

Kia Shavon

Kia “The Mix Artist” Shavon is an NYC based audio engineer with over 10 years of recording and mixing experience. Throughout her career, she’s mixed over 1,000 songs while working with hundreds of artists worldwide (Safaree, Lil’ Pump, Slick Rick, Foxy Brown, Lil’ Cease, NBA Entertainment, NFL Network, to name a few). Kia holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Engineering Technology from Hampton University.

Lindsey Kappa

Lindsey Kappa is an audio engineer at Chicken Run Studios and assistant engineer at Same Sky Productions in Austin, TX. In addition, Lindsey is a freelance contractor for live sound and stage operations with the Event Production Department at Rock N Roll Rentals. When she isn't engineering for others, she engineers her own music at her home studio.

Lena Hill

Lena Hill has been a full-time professional voice actor for the past five years and a professional actor/performer for the past twenty. She has worked consistently in all areas of voice over. She’s best knowns as the voice of Lefty in the world famous game Five Nights at Freddy’s. She’s also voiced for brands such as Harley Davidson, Dunkin Donuts, Verizon, Marriott, HEB and many others. 

Marisa Ewing

Marisa Ewing is a DC-based audio engineer, sound designer, composer, and musician with experience as a recording and mixing engineer for music, film, and video games. Marisa holds a BA in audio production and another in music with a specialization in film and game sound. She is the founder and owner of Hemlock Creek Productions, a boutique post production audio studio based in Washington, DC that specializes in dialogue editing, mixing, mastering, and sound design.

Lisa Machac is the founder and director of Omni Sound Project.
 
​Lisa is a musician based in Austin, Texas. After recording her own album in 2010, she became interested in audio engineering and took courses from Women's Audio Mission in San Francisco. Upon returning to Texas, Lisa started dreaming about creating a community of women+ in audio in Austin.

In February of 2020, Omni Sound Project was launched with over 20 local, in-person events scheduled for the year. Just a couple of months later, all of our classes were shifted to an online format to respond to the pandemic. Overnight, Omni became a global community of musicians, producers, and engineers who identify as female, GNC, trans, and allies.

Lisa believes that the frequency and quality of Omni's classes taught by welcoming, inclusive teachers makes the organization a genuine community that is steadily increasing gender representation in the audio industry.

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