Ana Schon is an Argentine singer, songwriter, producer, and researcher. She was born in 2002 in Buenos Aires, and started singing before she could talk.She graduated Berklee College of Music in 2022 and now is a master's student at the MIT media lab in the Opera of the Future group, researching music technology for expressive performance spaces.Her 2 main musical projects are latin-indie-folk duo Borneo, with guitarist Mateo Monk, and a solo project of songs in English and Spanish as Ana Schon.
MUSIC STUFF
SOME RECENT PERFORMANCES
- June 1, 2023 | Schubert Theatre at Boch Center | Boston, MA
----- supporting Julieta Venegas- May 15, 2023 | The Jungle | Somerville, MA- May 5, 2023 | Exit Galleries | Boston, MA- April 14, 2023 | Brighton Music Hall | Boston, MA
----- supporting Los Amigos Invisibles- April 1, 2023 | Paul's Place | Quincy, MA
portrato
holiday
PRESS (US)
WERS "Our Favorite Local Albums of 2023"
Lucy Spangler, "An Interview with Argentine Indie Artist Ana Schon" on Five Cent Sound
Music Shelf with Mustard "On the Road with Ana Schon"
Boston Globe "Give AI engine text prompt, get song. Where does that leave musicians?"
live video
SOUND STUFF
some recent shows as tech:
- Tod Machover - Flow Symphony (August 2024)
live sound - performed at Seoul Arts Center (South Korea)- Jessica Shand - Transmutations (July 2024)
live sound - performed at MIT Media Lab- Jessica Shand + Manuel Cherep - Organology (October 2023) - live sound- Tod Machover - VALIS (September 2023) -
sound production/engineering - performed at MIT Music and Theater Arts- Tod Machover - Overstory Overture (March 2023)
performance systems tech - performed at Lincoln Center (NYC) and Seoul Arts Center (South Korea)
some recent sound-based projects:
- WebSyn
a web-based synthesizer you can play with your laptop keyboard and customize the sound of.- Playing The Room
a system to express the electromagnetic signatures of rooms as data to generate sounds for live performance.*some recent production work:
- Jessica Woodlee - Whiskey and Rainy Day
Contact
press photos
via asher thomas, camille ingman, vika brennick
"portrato" liner notes
this project is about turning 21-ish years old. its a weird time to do it especially when you can record it all into music. hope it helps u as much as writing it it helped me navigate.
credits, because the album would not exist were it not for the amazing musicians that were a part of it:track 1. portrato
- drums: juanjo botero
- bass: preston lydotes
- electric guitars: vince baur
- produced & engineered: trina egner, alex vaccarello
- mix: teddy walshtrack 2. you would never
- drums: juanjo botero
- electric guitars: kyle brady
- produced, mix: ana schontrack 3. mejor sin ver
- produced: ana schon, sebastian schon
- mix: sebastian schontrack 4. damn!!
- produced: ana schon, sam knight
- mix: ana schontrack 5. expiration date
- produced & mix: ana schontrack 6. popcorn
- produced: ana schon
- mix: teddy walshtrack 7. inercia
- drums: alex williams
- bass: aidan walls
- guitars: ana schon
- produced & engineered: alester, vince baur
- mix: teddy walshtrack 8. medicine
- drums: mati moar
- bass: addie
- electric guitars: josh kim
- produced & mix: peter wang
- add. engineer: kas mehratrack 9. bell bottoms
- produced: ana schon, sebastian schon
- mix: sebastian schon- track 8 mastered by ryan sierakowski
- all others mastered by shane minsterspecial thanks to ciara atkins, annie bass, hayden elizabeth, kirsten kirk, donovan milner, jess woodlee. u were part of this.
thanks to mom for bearing with dad and i while we recorded tracks 3 and 9
thank u i love u
"HOLIDAY" liner notes
an EP about the passage of time, broken promises, and the worst month and a half EVER !!!!credits:track 1: halloween, pt. 2
- prod, mix: ana schontrack 2: acadia:
- prod, mix: ana schon
- recording engineer (drums): ciara atkins
- drums: mati moar
- slide guitar: sam wymantrack 3: i can't fix u
- prod: ana schon
- mix: teddy walsh
- recording engineers: ciara atkins, louie hamel
- drums: mati moar
- guitar: cordell laytontrack 4: get worse
- prod, mix: ana schontrack 5: TYITMHWNH
(the year i thought my heart would never heal)
- recording engineer: ciara atkins
- assistant engineers: louie hamel, sam harris
- mix: louie hamelmastered by ryan sierakowski
photography by vika brennick
special thanks: donovan milner, hayden elizabeth, madre y padre, ale (my therapist), mateo monk.
