Baptiste Chatel's workstation in Rennes (France) This article is a guest post by Baptiste Chatel (Dijon, France) who “works virtually everywhere in Europe as musician and sound engineer” and “likes low sounds, high sounds, and every other type of sounds in the middle as long as they are loud”. … [Read more...]
Break a Leg, Sound Designer
An Interview with San Francisco Bay Area theater Sound Designer, Jake Rodriguez As someone who deals mainly in game audio, you can probably understand why sound for theater isn’t something that I’m a resident expert on. Luckily, for this month’s Sound for Live Theater theme, I was able to catch up with someone who has made a name for himself as a Sound Designer for the San … [Read more...]
Sound Design for Theater: Another Medium for Our Craft
Guest post by James Richter In 2007, I was invited to join Mutineer Theatre Company in Los Angeles, a new enterprise one of my colleagues was founding. Though I hadn’t participated in theater since high school, I jumped at the chance. I wasn’t getting many opportunities to use my composition training in film, and I was growing bored with mixing mono news pieces for public … [Read more...]
Sound That Fits The ($10) Bill – An Interview with Nevin Steinberg, Sound Designer for “Hamilton”
We're kicking off this month of "Sound for Live Theater" with a very special interview with Nevin Steinberg who was kind enough to answer some of our questions about the world of sound for theater, and also some specific questions regarding his work as the Sound Designer for the musical "Hamilton" by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Nevin is a Sound Designer who's worked on over fifty … [Read more...]
Monthly Theme: Sound for Live Theater
"Stand-by SQ 01, monthly theme... monthly theme Go!" Ok, so this month we're going to be taking a look at the world of sound for live theater. This is the world where many argue the term "Sound Designer" found its first use. A world where multi-channel discreet sound systems going into the hundreds of speakers could be found long before film. Where the dynamic, adaptive … [Read more...]