SLĀB PLĀYLIST: SPOTIFY PLAYLISTS TO COMPANION YOUR HIGH: Laura Escude - ALLUXE
WHAT’S IN OUR EARS?
Laura Escude (fka ALLUXE) Future Classical artist blending music, tech & consciousness. She's the creator of The Transmute Accelerator, as well as Founder of Electronic Creatives, and an Ableton Certified Trainer.
Her wikipedia page reads,
“Laura Escudé is an American artist, certified music technology trainer, entrepreneur, and live show designer. She has programmed and designed shows for artists including Kanye West, Jay Z, American Idol, Herbie Hancock and Porter Robinson, as well as composed and performed string arrangements for Kanye West and Jay Z.
In 2008, Escudé became the world's first Ableton Certified Trainer, implementing the software in many high grossing live shows around the world.
With her professional experience as a controllerist and sound designer, Escudé founded Electronic Creatives, an Ableton-Certified Training Center where she trains and produces talented and sought-after music programmers and controllerists in the industry. Electronic Creatives also offers professional live show designing services to various artists, as well as courses for music production and playback engineering.
In 2009, Escudé formed Electronic Creatives, an Ableton certified training center, that conducted educational events in the field of music production. One of her first major clients was Kanye West’s engineer, Anthony Kilhoffer whom she assisted in the programming of the Glow in the Dark tour. At that time, she was also touring with Niyaz, an Iranian electronic band, as a violinist and a music programmer. A few months later, she moved to Las Vegas and worked on the pre-production for Cirque du Soleil’s Viva Elvis Show as a programmer.
In 2011, Escudé began going on tours with Kanye West as his official music programmer and live vocal effect designer, and has been his primary playback engineer ever since. Over the years, she also worked with other prominent artists such as Porter Robinson, Demi Lovato, Iggy Azalea, Charli XCX, Logic, The Weeknd, Miguel, Becky G, Missy Elliott, Rita Ora, Solange, Crystal Method, Camila Cabello, Jay-Z, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Herbie Hancock, Cat Power, Bon Iver, Drake, Silversun Pickups, Garbage, Childish Gambino and M83.
In 2012, Electronic Creatives branched out to provide music programming and live show design services. With Escudé’s years of experience in music programming, DJing and controllerist skills, she trained a new generation of programmers and playback engineers for artists such as Harry Styles, Mariah Carey, Logic, Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, Big Sean, Vic Mensa, Rae Sremmurd, Pentatonix, Charli XCX, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Porter Robinson, Iggy Azalea and many more. Electronic Creatives also went on to specialize in building live performance equipment and offered gear rental services to professional artists.
In 2017, Escudé created the Transmute Retreat, a place for artists to create the next version of their live show in a healthy, supportive environment. Transmute Retreat was first started at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and there have been plans to expand the program to various locations in the US and in other countries as well.
In 2018, she created MASTERTRACK, the first two-week intensive program for music programmers and playback engineers to prepare them for touring.
Escudé is the creator of the Transmute Retreat, a retreat that allows live performers to experience accelerated transformation in a healthy, relaxed atmosphere focused on self-realization and care. In recent years, she has grown to be particularly interested in the area of mental health & wellness for artists after years of professional touring. Escudé has been known to advocate for and invests in helping other high-performing artists like herself to discover the tools to begin their own transformation in shifting towards a healthy and supportive atmosphere.
As one of the only women in this male-dominated industry, Escudé is widely regarded as “one of the best in the world at this job”. She aims to inspire other women and the next generation through women empowerment conferences and speaking engagements and has been invited as a guest speaker to speak at leading music technology institutions such as the University of Southern California (USC) and Berklee College of Music in both the Boston campus as well as the one in Valencia, Spain.
DISCOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCES
Live Shows
2018 American Idol[27]
2017 Missy Elliot (Programming)
2017 Logic (Design, programming)
2016 Kanye West “Saint Pablo Tour” (Programming, Design)
2016 Charli XCX (DJ, programming)
2016 Demi Lovato (Programming)
2015-2016 Miguel “Wildheart Tour” (DJ, programming)
2015 Iggy Azalea (Musical Direction, programming)
2015 Kiesza (DJ)
2015 Becky G (Musical Direction)
2015 Kanye West (Programming + Vocal Effects)
2014 Porter Robinson “Worlds Tour” (Live show design)
2013-2014 Kanye West Yeezus (Playback + Vocal effect
2014 Mike Posner (Playback, controller design)
2014 Selena Gomez (playback)
2014 The Crystal Method (playback, controller design)
2013-2014 The Weeknd (playback)
2013 Becky G (playback design)
2013 Solange (playback design)
2013 Yeah Yeah Yeahs (keyboard + sfx design)
2011-2012 Kanye West + Jay-Z “Watch The Throne” tour (playback + vocal effects)
2012 Kanye West “Dark Fantasy” shows (playback, vocal effects)
2012 Childish Gambino (playback, keyboard + drum sampling—design)
2012 Cat Power (playback, keyboard + drum sampling—design)
2012 Silversun Pickups (playback, keyboard + drum sampling—design)
2012 Garbage (playback, keyboard + drum sampling—design)
2011 Kanye West + Jay-Z “Watch The Throne” tour (playback + vocal effects)
2011 Kanye West “Dark Fantasy” tour (vocal effects)
2011 Bon Iver (vocal effects +keyboard sampling—design)
2011 M83 (vocal effects—design)
2011 Herbie Hancock “Solo Piano” (custom controller design, playback, keyboards—design)
2011 Cirque du Soleil “IRIS” (playback—design)
2011 Wayne Linsey (playback, controller design—design)
2010 Drake “Away From Home” tour (playback)
2009 Kanye West “Glow in the Dark” tour (playback—design)
2009 Cirque du Soleil's VIVA ELVIS (playback)
2009 Niyaz European Tour (playback, sound design, violin)
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