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  • ONE WEEK TO GO! Top gongs up for grabs at IRAA Awards 2018 as nominations close on 30th April

    ONE WEEK TO GO! Top gongs up for grabs at IRAA Awards 2018 as nominations close on 30th April

    Honouring excellence in the domain of music recording and production is the 12th Edition of the glorious Indian Recording Arts Academy Awards (IRAA).

    The IRAA Awards which recognizes work of distinction and exceptional achievements in the field of Sound Recording and Music Production, has achieved critical attention from Indian recording engineers aspiring for recognition in their technical art.

    There are a lot of new young sound engineers who are doing great work in studios around the country. The IRAA 2018 constituting a three member committee headed by Anil Chopra, Founder & Executive Chairman, IRAA, Pramod Chandorkar, Honorary Chairman of the IRAA Award Committee 2018, and Aditya Modi, Award Director for IRAA 2018 have once again focused on scouting these new talents and bringing them into the spotlight and awarding them for superlative engineering work.

    The committee’s efforts and vision supported by a 10 member jury comprising of top audio engineers from across the country has translated into increased entries  of the best music and recording from studios from all over the country.

    At the time of going to press, the esteemed Jury of India’s leading sound engineers had started assessing the large body of hundreds of online nominations received on the IRAA website.  The Jury will zero in on the winner through a collective evaluation and judging process, ensuring that all entries received are reviewed and judged fairly.

    With the objective of recognizing the regional music industry, the IRAA awards has also retained ‘Regional Awards’ in the Audio Engineering, Audio Post Production and Music Production segments  to honour talent outside Mumbai.

    For 2018, the IRAA committee and jury has introduced several new awards and award categories that are crucial to the recording and music production industry.

    The new categories include:

    ·         Sound Mixing for Advertisement

    ·         Sound Designer for Foreign Films

    ·         Sound Designer for Documentaries / Short Films

    ·         Sound Editor (Effects & Ambience) for Documentaries / Short Films

    ·         Foley Artist for Documentaries / Short Films

    Nominations will close on 30th April and the winners will be announced at the IRAA award ceremony which will be hosted alongside the PALM Expo 2018 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon, Mumbai on 2nd June, 2018, 4 pm onwards.

  • IRAA Awards Now accepting nominations

    IRAA Awards Now accepting nominations

    MUMBAI: In its 12th consecutive year, the Indian Recording Arts Academy Awards (IRAA) 2018 will be hosted alongside the PALM Expo 2018 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre. The awards will once again recognize exceptional skills in music, soundtrack recording and mixing in Indian music for albums and movies.

    Soundtracks and albums released between January 1- December 31, 2017 are eligible for nominations and the list of categories which include Film as well as Non-film, are available on the IRAA website – www.iraa.in

    With the objective of recognizing the regional music industry, the IRAA awards has also retained ‘Regional Awards’ in the Audio Engineering, Audio Post Production and Music Production segments  to honour talent outside Mumbai.

    Audio files accompanying the entries can be submitted to a dropbox link provided on the website.

    The entry deadline is 30 April, 2018.

    Spearheaded by IRAA Director Aditya Modi, the nominations will be screened by an 11 member Jury comprising the best in the Music recording, production and post-production industry. There is no voting and final authority is with Jury and their decision is binding on the nominees.

    The winners will be announced at the IRAA award ceremony which will take place at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon, Mumbai on 2nd June, 2018, 4 pm onwards. 

    Here’s your chance to grab the limelight! Log in to http://iraa.in/Reg.aspx and send in your nominations now.

  • IRAA awards include new categories, nomination deadline extended to 30 April

    MUMBAI: The Indian Recording Arts Academy (IRAA) awards has announced that the 2017 entry deadline for submitting nominations has been extended to 30 April, 2017.

    With 31 awards over five categories, the IRAA Awards celebrates and recognizes technical excellence and expertise in the field of music recording and production. Entries for the 2017 awards will be accepted through Sunday, 30 April 2017, with the winners being announced at the IRAA Awards Ceremony which will take place at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon, Mumbai on 3 June, 2017, 16:00 hrs onwards.

    Under the guidance of Pramod Chandorkar as the Awards Director, the 2017 IRAA Awards will be presented in the following categories:

    Audio Engineering
    Audio Post Production
    Music Production
    Recording Facility
    Education Awards

    Chandorkar has been working as a Sound Engineer since 1995. He has worked on numerous mega hit albums and films as Chief Sound Engineer. He is one of the few audio engineers who has excelled in all branches of audio ranging from Music Recording, Live Sound, Film Sound Design and Studio Design. He is also a FOH Mix engineer and the Head Technical Engineer for Sonu Nigam Live in concert and has been traveling the world for his tour for last 13 years. He has mixed live for artists like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhonsle.

    For 2017, the IRAA has introduced several new awards and award categories that are crucial to the recording and music production industry. With the objective of recognising the regional music industry, this year the IRAA Awards has constituted “Regional awards” in all the award categories.

    Also new to IRAA is the Audio Post Production category which includes ten new awards namely – • Dubbing Engineer for Film – Hindi • Dubbing Engineer for Film – Regional • Sound Editor (Effects & Ambience) – Hindi • Sound Editor (Effects & Ambience) – Regional • Foley Artist – Hindi • Foley Artist- Regional • Broadcast Mixing (Dialogue Oriented) – Hindi • Broadcast Mixing (Dialogue Oriented) – Regional • Broadcast Mixing (Music Oriented) – Hindi • Broadcast Mixing (Music Oriented) – Regional

    The “Recording Facility” category has also been enhanced with three new awards besides the annual Music Recording Studio award. The three new awards include ADR Studio (Dialogue & Dubbing), Foley Studio and Surround Mix Studio

    “The 11th edition IRAA Awards Director is Pramod Chandorkar. I do believe under his guidance and intense supervision, the 2017 IRAA awards will be the best ever,” said IRAA founder and chairman Anil Chopra.

    The IRAA Awards will also celebrate the best in Audio Education with two awards – Dronacharya Award for Teachers in Audio Education and Best Audio Education Programme.

    As always, the IRAA Awards also includes the coveted “Lifetime Contribution to Audio Engineering” award which aims to recognize an industry professional who during his lifetime has made contributions of outstanding artistic and technical significance in the field of Audio Engineering. This year the Jury awards also include two more prestigious awards which include the “The Mahaguru Award for Contribution in Music Education” and the award for Lifetime Contribution to Music”.

    The Mahaguru award will be presented, to an industry professional who during his lifetime, has made contributions of outstanding significance in the field of Music Education, while the Lifetime Contribution to Music will be presented, to an industry professional who during his lifetime, has made contributions of outstanding artistic and technical significance in Music.

    Awards Process

    The IRAA Awards 2017 nominations are open to Music producers and recording professionals and may be entered online; a full list of categories, award criteria and deadlines can be found at www.iraa.in

    Entries for the IRAA Awards will close on Sunday, 30 April 2017. Submissions must be accompanied by Audio files which can be submitted to a dropbox link provided on the website.

    Soundtracks released between 1 January, 2016, and 31 December, 2016, are eligible for nomination.

    The awards will be judged by IRAA’s 11-member jury panel who are all involved creatively and/or technically in the recording and music production industry. The jury will listen to the audio files submitted by the nominees and will determine the winner. There is no voting. Final authority is with the jury, and their decision is binding on the nominees.

    For further information on the IRAA Awards 2017, including sponsorship opportunities, please contact Smita Rai on srai@palmexpo.in The IRAA awards will be held on 3 June at BEC, Mumbai.

  • Pramod Chandorkar is IRAA awards director

    MUMBAI: The Indian Recording Arts Academy has announced Pramod Chandorkar as the Awards Director. Pramod has been working as a Sound Engineer since 1995. He has worked on numerous mega hit albums and films as Chief Sound Engineer. He is one of the few audio engineers who have excelled in all branches of audio ranging from Music Recording, Live Sound, Film Sound Design, Studio Design and Audio Education.

    Starting out as a musician, Pramod’s journey is marked with an association with many leading sound recording studios. Pramod has also been responsible for designing and deploying more than 30 fully operational sound recording facilities. Currently other than being the founder & director of Soundideaz Academy Pvt. Ltd. a premier institute conducting courses on Sound engineering, he also heads an impressive Audio post-production facility.

    He is also a FOH Mix engineer and the Head Technical Engineer for Sonu Nigam Live in concert and has been traveling the world for his tour for last 13 years .He has mixed live for artists like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhonsle.

    In the world of Film Sound design he has been active for last four years and in a short span has received four prestigious nominations for Sound Design for Films. He has received the Zee Cine Award for Best Song Recording in 2005 and also three IRRA and one Palm Live Sound Awards too.

    “I feel honoured to be appointed as the Awards Director for the prestigious IRAA. In the last 10 years IRAA has become the most prestigious award for the Audio industry,” says Chandorkar. “In a world where a technician’s contribution in recording of music and film sound has only increased multifold, IRAA has done the job of acknowledging their contribution and motivating the new generation of Audio artists. In the coming editions we will be looking forward to take these awards and recognition to the next well,” he adds.

    IRAA in its 11th consecutive edition is achieving critical attention from Indian recording engineers aspiring for recognition in their technical art in the audio studio. Pramod Chandorkar eminent sound engineer of global fame is the 2017 Award Director. In Pramod we have a very dedicated and serious savant of the recording arts having contributed immensely to the profession. IRAA is going to benefit greatly in his guidance and leadership. I believe more so nice fraternity of recording engineers will benefit in the IRAA Awards being led by Pramod,” states Anil Chopra, founder of IRAA Awards.

    “I have known Pramod since 25 years and persistence for achieving excellence is remarkable, the awards too recognize excellence in the recording arts,” he adds.

    Now in its 11th edition, IRAA Awards will continue to applaud the best in Indian music; those who exhibit the courage, and creativity to bring about a transformation in the world of music.

    Indian Recording Arts Awards (IRAA) every year honour and recognise exceptional talent in music, soundtrack recording and mixing in Indian music for albums and movies. The music awards similarly recognise innovation in music composition and tracks that define independent popular music culture.

    IRAA 2017 will be held at Bombay Exhibition Centre on 3 June and will be hosted alongside PALM Expo 2017. IRAA Awards are now accepting nominations.

    The entries for the esteemed awards can be submitted for consideration at iraa.in/register. The soundtracks and albums released between January 1- December 31, 2016 are eligible for nominations and the list of categories which include Film as well as Non-film, are available on the IRAA website – www.iraa.in. Audio files accompanying the entries can be submitted to a dropbox link provided on the website.

  • IRAA Awards starts accepting nominations

    IRAA Awards starts accepting nominations

    MUMBAI: In its 11th consecutive year, the Indian Recording Arts Academy Awards (IRAA) 2017 will be held at Bombay Exhibition Centre on 3 June and will be hosted alongside PALM Expo 2017. It takes the opportunity to recognize exceptional skills in music, soundtrack recording and mixing in Indian music for albums and movies.

    With an aim to honor the distinctive talent, IRAA Awards are now accepting nominations. The entries for the esteemed awards can be submitted for consideration at iraa.in/register The soundtracks and albums released between January 1- December 31, 2016 are eligible for nominations and the list of categories which include Film as well as Non-film, are available on the IRAA website – www.iraa.in

    Audio files accompanying the entries can be submitted to a dropbox link provided on the website. The entry deadline is 15 April, 2017. Appreciating innovation in music composition and tracks that define independent and popular music culture, the awards take cognisance of the talent and worth of studios and engineers.

    It also keeps an eye on the skill in adopting new technology, trends and proving expertise in the use of new methods. Gaining aspirational value through the years, the awards reflect industry’s credibility.

  • IRAA Awards starts accepting nominations

    IRAA Awards starts accepting nominations

    MUMBAI: In its 11th consecutive year, the Indian Recording Arts Academy Awards (IRAA) 2017 will be held at Bombay Exhibition Centre on 3 June and will be hosted alongside PALM Expo 2017. It takes the opportunity to recognize exceptional skills in music, soundtrack recording and mixing in Indian music for albums and movies.

    With an aim to honor the distinctive talent, IRAA Awards are now accepting nominations. The entries for the esteemed awards can be submitted for consideration at iraa.in/register The soundtracks and albums released between January 1- December 31, 2016 are eligible for nominations and the list of categories which include Film as well as Non-film, are available on the IRAA website – www.iraa.in

    Audio files accompanying the entries can be submitted to a dropbox link provided on the website. The entry deadline is 15 April, 2017. Appreciating innovation in music composition and tracks that define independent and popular music culture, the awards take cognisance of the talent and worth of studios and engineers.

    It also keeps an eye on the skill in adopting new technology, trends and proving expertise in the use of new methods. Gaining aspirational value through the years, the awards reflect industry’s credibility.