Case study · 2021 to 2023
Industry Access is the live interview and masterclass series Ron Haryanto created, named and hosted in 2021, while he was General Manager of Studios 301 and CEO of Abbey Road Institute Sydney. Each session put a working producer or engineer in a room at Studios 301 with students and emerging creatives, with Ron interviewing them about how the industry actually works. It grew into the first Industry Access Music Conference in 2023, and later into The Mentor Academy.
Studios 301 is the longest-running professional recording studio in Australia, home to the engineers and producers people want to learn from. To anyone outside, it was a closed door. Students and emerging creatives had no way in.
Make the community itself the access point. Ron named the series for exactly that, describing it in 2021 as bridging the gap between people starting out and the actual industry. Abbey Road Institute called it an initiative to open studio doors and professional opportunities.
An up-close sit-down in the studio, not a lecture. The guest’s pathway into the industry, their creative process and career lessons, a real-time walk-through of work in progress, then an open audience Q&A.
“We all love music; that’s why we are here.”
Willstah, guest speaker at the first Industry Access session (Abbey Road Institute, 2021)
“You now have an education facility that’s based out of and collaborating directly with a commercial recording facility. So it’d be like studying to be a chef at a five-star Michelin restaurant.”
Ron Haryanto, General Manager of Studios 301 and CEO, Abbey Road Institute Sydney (2021)
Industry Access became the front door to Abbey Road Institute Sydney and grew into the first Industry Access Music Conference in February 2023. The same idea, direct access to the people doing the work, is the foundation of The Mentor Academy, which Ron co-founded.
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