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Meg Lee Chin
Meg Lee Chin is a Taiwanese American singer, songwriter, sound engineer and video producer who lives in London, England.
She is known as an early pioneer of the home studio revolution and female-produced music. As an early adopter of computer-based audio production, she built her own PC and created "Egg Studio" with a small mixing desk and audio interfaces. Her role in the movement toward DIY record production was first recognized when she appeared as the first home studio producer to be featured in the January 2000 Millennial issue of EQ Magazine which was the foremost high-end audio publication of its time. She also appeared in Tape Op magazine and Electronic Musician.
Meg Lee Chin, whose real name is Margaret O'Leary, was born on 16 March 1960 in Taipei, Taiwan, to a US Air Force electronics engineer and a Taiwanese mother. She worked as a sound engineer while studying experimental art and video production at San Francisco State University, forming her first band, Felix Natural, during the early 1980s. Chin went on to co-found the short-lived Teknofear with Lunachicks drummer Becky Wreck and Swans guitarist Joe Goldring; frustrated with American life, she spent the late 1980s living in London, and eventually formed the all-female band Crunch.
She has been producing since her college days in San Francisco, when she produced Faith No More's first demo on her 4-track. At the time, the band featured Courtney Love on vocals.
In 1990, her home-produced music video entitled "The Ocean" was featured on MTV Europe's regular rotation. It may have been the first MTV Europe music video to be home-produced in super8 and transferred to video on a budget of £200. When asked by the producer how she managed to create a £200 video which was in his opinion "better than Duran Duran's £200,000 videos", Chin simply replied, "I've got pretty good taste". The video was later featured in an Institute of Contemporary Arts festival of film shorts.
She is perhaps best known for her work with the anarchic industrial supergroup Pigface, headed by Martin Atkins of Invisible Records. As a core member, she toured the US extensively and shared the stage with industrial music notables including Nivek Ogre (Skinny Puppy), Genesis P-Orridge, Chris Connelly (Revolting Cocks), Geordie (Killing Joke), En Esch (KMFDM), Danny Carey (Tool) Charles Levi (My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult).
According to a March 23, 1998, article in the LA Times, "If you're looking for star potential, singer Meg Lee Chin".
After appearing on Pigface's 1997 LP A New High in Low and their 1999 follow-up, Below the Belt, she released the solo debut Piece and Love on ex-Public Image Ltd, Ministry and Killing Joke drummer Martin Atkins' Invisible Records label. Recorded in her Soho, London flat and released in September, Piece and Love achieved critical acclaim on the darkwave, industrial underground scene and was hot-tipped in Billboard magazine's "Heatseaker" section.
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Meg Lee Chin
Meg Lee Chin is a Taiwanese American singer, songwriter, sound engineer and video producer who lives in London, England.
She is known as an early pioneer of the home studio revolution and female-produced music. As an early adopter of computer-based audio production, she built her own PC and created "Egg Studio" with a small mixing desk and audio interfaces. Her role in the movement toward DIY record production was first recognized when she appeared as the first home studio producer to be featured in the January 2000 Millennial issue of EQ Magazine which was the foremost high-end audio publication of its time. She also appeared in Tape Op magazine and Electronic Musician.
Meg Lee Chin, whose real name is Margaret O'Leary, was born on 16 March 1960 in Taipei, Taiwan, to a US Air Force electronics engineer and a Taiwanese mother. She worked as a sound engineer while studying experimental art and video production at San Francisco State University, forming her first band, Felix Natural, during the early 1980s. Chin went on to co-found the short-lived Teknofear with Lunachicks drummer Becky Wreck and Swans guitarist Joe Goldring; frustrated with American life, she spent the late 1980s living in London, and eventually formed the all-female band Crunch.
She has been producing since her college days in San Francisco, when she produced Faith No More's first demo on her 4-track. At the time, the band featured Courtney Love on vocals.
In 1990, her home-produced music video entitled "The Ocean" was featured on MTV Europe's regular rotation. It may have been the first MTV Europe music video to be home-produced in super8 and transferred to video on a budget of £200. When asked by the producer how she managed to create a £200 video which was in his opinion "better than Duran Duran's £200,000 videos", Chin simply replied, "I've got pretty good taste". The video was later featured in an Institute of Contemporary Arts festival of film shorts.
She is perhaps best known for her work with the anarchic industrial supergroup Pigface, headed by Martin Atkins of Invisible Records. As a core member, she toured the US extensively and shared the stage with industrial music notables including Nivek Ogre (Skinny Puppy), Genesis P-Orridge, Chris Connelly (Revolting Cocks), Geordie (Killing Joke), En Esch (KMFDM), Danny Carey (Tool) Charles Levi (My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult).
According to a March 23, 1998, article in the LA Times, "If you're looking for star potential, singer Meg Lee Chin".
After appearing on Pigface's 1997 LP A New High in Low and their 1999 follow-up, Below the Belt, she released the solo debut Piece and Love on ex-Public Image Ltd, Ministry and Killing Joke drummer Martin Atkins' Invisible Records label. Recorded in her Soho, London flat and released in September, Piece and Love achieved critical acclaim on the darkwave, industrial underground scene and was hot-tipped in Billboard magazine's "Heatseaker" section.