Bringing together world-leading industry professionals in sound design and composition with academics and sound artists, to critique and reflect upon each others work and the role of spatiality within it. Facilitating interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and the potential to further seed academic impact into the creative industries.
Peter Albrechtsen
Sound Designer, Re-recording Mixer and Music Supervisor
Respected for his work across both documentaries and feature films, he works across a mixture of both Hollywood and Danish cinema productions.
Natasha Barrett
Composer
Exploring new technologies and experimental approaches to sound in a broad range of contemporary music, including concert works, public space sound-art installations and multimedia interactive music.
Onnalee Blank
Re-recording Mixer and Sound Supervisor
Multi-award winning Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer, known for her work and collaborations with Barry Jenkins and on Game of Thrones.
Jesse Dodd
ADR and Foley Re-Recording Mixer
With over twenty-five years experience working at some of the world’s leading studios she is one of the only Female African American Post-Production Sound Department ADR/Foley Re-recording mixers in the industry.
Paula Fairfield
Sound Designer and Sound Artist
Multi Emmy award winning sound designer known for her iconic creature sound design featured in Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones.
Steve Fanagan
Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor, and Re-recording Mixer
Regular collaborator with Lenny Abrahamson, with prestigious nominations for awards including wins from IFTA, an MPSE Golden Reel Award and an International Music+Sound Award.
Nina Hartstone
Supervising Sound Editor – specialist in Dialogue, ADR and Vocals
First European woman to win an Oscar for sound editing, she specialises in working with the intricacies of the voice through dialogue editing and ADR.
KMRU
Sound Artist, Experimental Ambient Musician and Producer
From Nairobi, his works deal with discourses of field recording, improvisation, noise, ambient, radio art and expansive hypnotic drones.
Ann Kroeber
Sound Designer, Effects Editor and Recordist
Renowned sound effects recordist, best known for her pioneering work with the FRAP (contact microphone) and her partnership with Alan Splet.
Annie Mahtani
Electroacoustic Composer, Sound Artist and Performer
Worked extensively with dance, theatre and on site-specific installations. Strong interest in field recording, and exploring environmental sound.
Nikos Stavropoulos
Composer of Acousmatic & Mixed Music (Instrument and Electronics)
His practice is concerned with notions of tangibility and immersivity in acousmatic experiences and the articulation of acoustic space, in the pursuit of probable aural impossibilities.
Randy Thom
Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer, Re-Recording Mixer
Two-time Oscar winning sound designer and Director of Sound Design for Skywalker Sound.
Annette Vande Gorne
Acousmatic Composer
Founder of the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio in Ohain, curator of the festival L’Espace du Son in Brussels. She studied with Guy Reibel and Pierre Schaeffer at the Conservatoire national supérieur in Paris and worked with François Bayle at the GRM.
George Vlad
Sound recordist and expedition leader
Location sound recordist and Games sound designer, known for his capturing of rare and hard to reach soundscapes.
Hildegard Westerkamp
Composer, Radio Artist and Sound Ecologist
Her works explore acoustic ecology utilsing recorded sounds of the environment and human voice. Instrumental in the founding of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, she served as chief editor of the journal Soundscape from 2000-2012.
Trevor Wishart
Composer and Free Vocal Improvisor
A composer and free-improvising vocal performer, working primarily with the human voice. Recognised for both his composition and extensive writings on the topics of sonic art, composition with sound and the morphology and psychoacoustics of sound transformations.
John Young
Composer
Award winning New Zealand composer, his works merge sound-images of the real world with more abstract sonic materials, inviting listeners into imaginative worlds where familiar objects and environments are given new meanings.
The outcome of the interviews formed an Edited Volume, Art of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound & Electroacoustic Music.