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The Judges

Yanni Caldas judged several of the rounds this
season. He graduated from both the Audio Production
& Engineering and the post-graduate Music Mixing &
Mastering Diploma Programs in 2016/2017, and has
since been building his credit list under his brand-name
‘Amnesia Sound’. Yanni is now working as both a free-
lance audio-engineer and composer for film and tele-
vision.
As a composer, Yanni works remotely for multiple cli-
ents including Bell Media and Haus Music + Sound. While
the majority of Yanni’s composition work so-far has
been for TV, he has also created music beds for broad-
cast media, written music for trailers and promotional
videos, and scored a few short-films, including ‘One Step
Forward, Two Steps Back’, a Swiss short-film scheduled to
be released in 2019. Some of Yanni’s more recognizable
credits include writing music for popular television shows
including American Pickers, Homicide Hunters, and The artists, telling us, “with styles from gospel to pop to latin,
Deed. every day ends up being a different experience.” Recently,
In addition to his work composing for media, Yanni has Yanni recently finished work on Abigail Ramprashad’s
been working as a freelance producer for local recording debut Gospel EP which came out just before Christmas
2018. The entire EP was recorded with fellow Metalworks
Institute graduate Ian Madden.
•Kitchens Yanni’s music career is off to a great start, so we decid-
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•Finished Basements ed to ask him “What has been the most helpful aspect of
• Laundry Rooms your Metalworks education?” and this is what he had to
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Education was to learn how to listen and ‘feel’ the music.
I used to think ‘this is how I always treat this cello or gui-
tar’ but now I’ve learned to listen to what that instru-
ment’s role is in the music [so I can] help it do its job.”
He then finished up our interview with some advice for
current students:
“You’re going to be rejected, a lot. But when that one
person decides to listen to what you can do, make sure
DREAM HOUSE RENOS INC. it’s the best you can do. Always be prepared.”
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