How looping led to a found community: Annie Leeth’s career and history with Nuçi’s Space

Music producer, violinist, keyboardist and artist Annie Leeth has been producing music since 2017, but she has played music since third grade when she was six years old. During her middle school years she became interested in editing audio and video. 

“I was an orchestra kid, so I started playing violin when I was around six and just kind of kept doing it. During middle school I was really interested in technology, specifically editing videos and audio,” Leeth said.

Leeth mainly performs with live looping, and her band prides itself on not having a device on stage causing the production of intriguing effects.

“I do a lot of live looping, and there’s some tracks and stuff on the sets, but for the most part, my band mates and I pride ourselves on having no laptop on the stage. It has turned into this sort of magic trick where people don’t know what sounds are coming from,” Leeth said.

During Leeth’s experience with performances she realized that she felt different after having company. 

“The last tour started to change how performances are a little bit, because for a long time I was pretty timid in between songs and just most of that was just because I was solo and it’s kind of a little scary. But now that I have two people that are close friends of mine on stage with me, it opens the room for a little bit more banter. It feels a lot more comfortable in the room now,” Leeth said.

In 2017 Leeth discovered Nuçi’s Space during her first semester in the music business certificate program at the University of Georgia. Each group at Nuçi’s Space would have to put in a project and they would be presented as free shows.

“They have shows at Nuçi’s Space and it would just be a free show, and then they have to put it together and publicize it. I think that was the first time I went there,” Leeth said.

From Leeth’s perspective, Nuçi’s Space has many different programs that can benefit rising musicians. Nuçi’s Space provides diverse opportunities for people that might not be able to afford certain services.

“Nuçi’s Space does tons of stuff. Camp Amped is one part of it, and then another part is all of the mental and physical health, specifically financial help they give to people that wouldn’t necessarily be able to afford it, specifically musician’s practice spaces,” Leeth said.

In deciding whether to go the classical or experimental route in music, Leeth became a traditional producer. Soon after she discovered Nuçi’s Space and started interning at Chase Park.

“I was also in the music composition program so I was halfway there thinking that I was just going to go the classical route or experimental route, It just turned into more of the traditional producer role. I want to get back into the more classical sound engineer stuff at some point in the future, but I’m happy where we are right now,” Leeth said

Nuçi’s Space has helped with her own mental health. She enjoys how many young people who want to be musicians are using the services provided by Nuçi’s Space. 

“I get kind of jealous of them sometimes because they have such a cool community around them. It’s definitely been cool to see these kids grow up and become cool adults,” Leeth said.