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2 unusual facts about Sound design


Communication art

Sound design – the process of specifying, acquiring, manipulating or generating audio elements.

Sound design

Notable examples of sound design are the contributions of Michael Brook to the U2 album The Joshua Tree, George Massenburg to the Jennifer Warnes album Famous Blue Raincoat, Chris Thomas to the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon, and Brian Eno to the Paul Simon album Surprise.


Adham Shaikh

Adham Shaikh is a composer, record producer and sound designer living near Nelson, British Columbia.

Joe Leeway

The experience with Slaves of New York seemed to stall Leeway's career as an actor permanently, but he continued to work in sound design for films as well as commercials for Nike and Pepsi.

Michaël Boumendil

Michaël Boumendil (born in Sarcelles France on 25 April 1971), is the creator of the audio identities and sound design for brands such as Alstom, Baccarat, Chanel, Europ Assistance, Fnac, France Telecom, Jacques Vabre, Michelin, PSA Peugeot Citroën, SNCF, Société Générale, Samsung and others.

Mike Schurr

Notable productions include original film score and sound design for the movies UnConventional and Shorty both executive produced by actor Danny Aiello.

Neurofunk

In 2002, Sinthetix, Cause 4 Concern, and Silent Witness & Break took Konflict's hard edge, minimalist approach with emphasis on colder, precision beat engineering, harder stabs over the bassline, sharper mixdowns and simultaneously, hastening the advancement of the style's sound design between the periods of 2002 and 2005 along with Gridlok, Corrupt Souls, Noisia, Phace, and The Upbeats.

Soundrangers

Initially providing custom sound design and Foley for interactive projects, within months Soundrangers expanded their focus to include the development of a library of original sound effects and production music designed and optimized to easily integrate into interactive media.


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1997 Young Critics Circle Awards

Jaime Fabregas (Original Score) and Ramon Reyes (Sound Design) – Milagros

2005 Young Critics Circle Awards

Jerrold Tarog (Original Score), Nonoy Dadivas and Rudy Gonzales (Sound Design) – Masahista

Andy Newell

Recently, Newell created the Sound Design and was Sound Supervisor for The Wild, an animated feature by Disney Feature Animation, directed by Steve “Spaz” Williams and starring Kiefer Sutherland and James Belushi.

Antigone Foster

Native Instruments were so impressed they now commission him for sound design.

Bob Pomann

His work with Ogilvy, McCann, and Chiat-Day for products like Subway, Nicorette, Verizon Fios, and many more, show Bob’s unprecedented talent, and illustrate his clean, sonic sound design.

Breakfast with Les and Bess

Productions were directed by Barnet Kellman, set design by Dean Tschetter, lighting design by Ian Calderon, costume design by Timothy Dunleavy, sound design by Michael Jay, and the stage manager was Andrea Naier.

Dark Souls

The Daily Telegraph gave the game the "Best Integration of Online Features" award, and nominated it for the awards of "Best Director" (Hidetaka Miyazaki), "Best Level Design", "Best Sound Design", "Best Original Score" (Motoi Sakuraba), "Best Developer" (From Software), and "Game of the Year".

Diego Stocco

He has done sound design and performed for video games such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry Instincts and The Conduit.

Finn Robertson

Finn worked in-house as Audio Director and Lead Composer for three years at Torus Games in Melbourne over which time he created the soundtracks and oversaw the Sound Design of over 10 commercially released games including

Force Theory

Their later work included composition and sound design on director Marjan Tehrani's Arusi: Persian Wedding (PBS, 2009) and a complete sound design for Benson Lee's Planet B-Boy, which aired on MTV in January 2009.

Giles Lamb

Lamb composed the trailer theme for the 2011 video game Dead Island as well additional music and sound design for the films Valhalla Rising, Wild Country, Asylum and Blinded.

Hot Wheels Velocity X

One review by Chris Roper gave it a 4.7 out of 10, criticizing the game's sound design, controls, and the unstable framerate, but praising the multiplayer mode of the GameCube version and the voice overs during the FMV cutscenes.

Iron Helix

The game was designed by Drew Pictures and distributed by Spectrum Holobyte, with Peter Stone of Xorcist creating the soundtrack as well as all sound design.

Jamie Moffett

In 2003, Moffett was nominated for a Barrymore Award in Outstanding Theatre Sound Design.

Janene Higgins

In addition to video performance, she has directed several short experimental works, often with sound design by notable avant-garde artists including Sharp, Parkins, Christian Marclay and John Duncan.

John Willsteed

Willsteed has won three Australian Film Institute Awards for Sound Design (Vietnam Nurses, The Beat Manifesto and Rare Chicken Rescue).

Joseph Troski

2002: Saints And Singing by Gertrude Stein (New York, NY) (Credits: Original Score and Sound Design)

Julio Cesar Badillo

At present, he also teaches Music & Sound Design for Theater Performing Arts at the specialized Performing Arts School: José Julián Acosta, in Old San Juan.

Liberty Stands Still

The techno score was produced and composed by Convertino, and orchestrated with sound design by Film Composer and Film Music Producer Robert Muzingo.

Lusine

In 1998, he attended California Institute of the Arts to study 20th century electronic music and sound design for music and film.

Martin Levan

Other awards include a NAACP Theatre Award for Best Sound Director for The Phantom of the Opera, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Sound Design for Sunset Boulevard and a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Design Team Achievement for Show Boat.

Matthew Spangler

He has written fourteen plays, but is best known for his adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner, which received five San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards: Best Original Script, Best Overall Production for a 300+ seat theatre, as well as awards for Lighting Design, Set Design, and Sound Design.

Planet of the Drums

For the 2008 POTD intro, Dieselboy hired Julianne Moore, the disembodied female voice in the movie thriller "Eagle Eye", with sound design by SPKTRM and Dieselboy

Stylus Music School

The Stylus College of Music and Sound Technology is an accredited career training institution dedicated to music production, Sound Design and music business management and is located in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

Sussudio

The synthesizer, rhythm and synth bass arrangement, sound design, and programming was done by David Frank of The System and the horn arrangement was done later based on the motif from the bassline.

Ted Marcus

In addition to drumming, Marcus was Senior Audio Engineer and Sound Designer for MTV, mixed the Emmy Award winning short film StandFast: Trip to Sudan, and mixed and did sound design for the film Pitch, which was accepted at the Cannes Film Festival.

Tom Mardikes

He currently serves as Department Chair and Head of Graduate Sound Design training for UMKC Theatre, an academic department of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Tracy W. Bush

He is known for composing music for the popular games Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, World of Warcraft, StarCraft (all of which he also performed voice acting for), and StarCraft: Brood War, and for sound design on Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.

Wirrn Dawn

Jamie Robertson who produced the sound design for Dalek Empire: The Fearless and scored the music for the Key 2 Time series has the Job of Bringing back the Wirrn with a new Sound design but has promised to Keep a distinctive wirrn sound but updated to keep it with a more modern sfx design.

Worlds of Fun

Snoopy's Hot Summer Lights was a one million dollar investment that uses special effects and sound design, custom designed for Worlds of Fun by Emmy Award-Winning RWS and Associates.