{"id":622,"date":"2023-05-15T14:07:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/sound-image\/?p=622"},"modified":"2023-05-15T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:07:58","slug":"sound-designer-composer-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/sound-image\/2023\/05\/15\/sound-designer-composer-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Designer \/ Composer Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Albrechtsen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound Designer, Re-recording Mixer and Music Supervisor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Respected for his work across both documentaries and feature films, he works across a mixture of both Hollywood and Danish cinema productions.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Natasha Barrett<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Composer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Onnalee Blank<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Re-recording Mixer and Sound Supervisor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multi-award winning Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer, known for her work and collaborations with Barry Jenkins and on Game of Thrones. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jesse Dodd<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ADR and Foley Re-Recording Mixer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Paula Fairfield<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound Designer and Sound Artist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multi Emmy award winning sound designer known for her iconic creature sound design featured in Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Fanagan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor, and Re-recording Mixer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nina Hartstone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervising Sound Editor – specialist in Dialogue, ADR and Vocals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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KMRU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound Artist, Experimental Ambient Musician and Producer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Nairobi, his works deal with discourses of field recording, improvisation, noise, ambient, radio art and expansive hypnotic drones. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ann Kroeber<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound Designer, Effects Editor and Recordist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renowned sound effects recordist, best known for her pioneering work with the FRAP (contact microphone) and her partnership with Alan Splet. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Annie Mahtani<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electroacoustic Composer, Sound Artist and Performer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worked extensively with dance, theatre and on site-specific installations. Strong interest in field recording, and exploring environmental sound. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nikos Stavropoulos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Composer of Acousmatic & Mixed Music (Instrument and Electronics)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Randy Thom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer, Re-Recording Mixer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two-time Oscar winning sound designer and Director of Sound Design for Skywalker Sound. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Annette Vande Gorne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acousmatic Composer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Founder of the M\u00e9tamorphoses d\u2019Orph\u00e9e<\/em> studio in Ohain, curator of the festival L\u2019Espace du Son<\/em> in Brussels. She studied with Guy Reibel and Pierre Schaeffer at the Conservatoire national sup\u00e9rieur <\/em>in Paris and worked with Fran\u00e7ois Bayle at the GRM. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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George Vlad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound recordist and expedition leader<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location sound recordist and Games sound designer, known for his capturing of rare and hard to reach soundscapes. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hildegard Westerkamp<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Composer, Radio Artist and Sound Ecologist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Trevor Wishart<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Composer and Free Vocal Improvisor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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John Young<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Composer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The outcome of the interviews formed an Edited Volume, Art of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound & Electroacoustic Music<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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