School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe is hosting an intensive 4 week program led by artists Florence To and Antoine Bertin on spatial audio titled Ecoacoustics. Among other things the course will cover binaural recording techniques, 360 audio mixing, interactive sound design with Max/MSP and tactile audio. This workshop will take you from the intricacies of the ear … [Read more...]
Learning to Listen – Wildeye’s Sound Recording in Iceland Course
Do you want to do more field recording? Sure, we all do. Recorded sound is at the core of so much of our craft, and so the art / act of getting somewhere afield, pointing a microphone and capturing sound feels like one of those fundamental skills we all should know. You know, like fixing a flat or painting a living room. Except that I rarely change a flat--certainly not … [Read more...]
2-day workshop – Creating ‘Cinematic Voices’
A two day course focusing on the voice and its import on cinematic sound will take place in York, UK next month. Taught by industry specialists Neil Hillman, Adele Fletcher, Adam Severs and James Hyde, and led by Dr Sandra Pauletto (University of York), Creating Cinematic Voices: from script to mixing will cover a wide range of topics, including dialogue production … [Read more...]
The Sound of Story: Workshop – 5 & 6 December 2014
A two-day sound event will take place in Brighton, England later this week, 5-6 December. Presented by Lighthouse and Creative Skillset, The Sound of Story will feature talks and workshops from from of the UK's top sound practitioners including Ray Beckett and Stuart McCowan, plus many others. For more information and to buy tickets, go to: … [Read more...]
4th International FilmSoundHamburg Summer Academy
The fourth annual FilmSoundHamburg got under way in Hamburg on Sunday evening - an event that will bring together enthusiasts from the worlds of sound design, film composition and game music for five days of workshops and seminars and masterclasses. Among the highlights will be four separate masterclasses given by Tim Nielsen of Skywalker Sound (Maleficient, Lord of the the … [Read more...]
Review: Sound Librarian Sound Recording Workshop
As Designing Sound’s month devoted to Silence comes to an end, what better time to take a look at a remarkable video course that delves into the vast and interesting world of effective sound recording. The Sound Recording Workshop (video/audio series) comes to us from Sound Librarian and presenter Stephan Schütze. … [Read more...]
Event: The Two Ways of Listening (Workshop)
The Royal School of Arts in Gent, Belgium, is holding six full days of listening technique and research this February and March. Elias Vervecken (sound recordist and foley artist) and Els Viaene (sound artist and field recordist) will each lead a three day workshop on listening, focusing on different relationships to the environment. Starting from the point of silence, Elias … [Read more...]