This week you can hear from field recordist Chris Watson about his twenty-year career in TV documentaries; learn about auralization in civil engineering with Dr. Alex Southern; hear Nathan Moody talk about synths, mixing and mastering; and hear trumpeter and vocalist Mark “The Loveman” Pender talk about his 25-year career on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Conan.
Plus, hear 7 talks from GameSoundCon 2018 from speakers like Marty O’Donnell, Tom Salta, and Paul Lipson.
Episode outline: ‘Chris’s love of listening began when he was given a reel-to-reel tape recorder as a child. He made his first field recordings in the wilds of the Peak District, near his home in the north of England. Later, Chris and some friends founded influential art-rock band Cabaret Voltaire, incorporating found sounds in their performances and recordings.
Eventually leaving music to train as a TV field recordist, Chris pioneered up-close recording, capturing sounds from ‘places our ears can’t go’: from the jaws of sleeping cheetahs, to creaking glaciers, and seals swimming under the Arctic ice.
For twenty years, Chris worked alongside David Attenborough on BBC documentaries including The Life of Birds, The Life of Mammals, Life in the Undergrowth and Frozen Planet. He now creates sound for all media – games, film, albums, television, radio, installations, apps, hospitals, and art galleries.’
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Episode outline: ‘This week on the Immersive Audio Podcast, Oliver is joined by Dr Alex Southern, a Principal Consultant and the Auralisation Lead for the engineering and construction consultancy company AECOM.
Alex is also a former Royal Society Industry Fellow and the most recent winner of the Institute of Acoustics Young Person Innovation Award in Acoustical Engineering for his work in Auralisation as well as recently winning an award for his work on the A303 Stonehenge project.
Today, Oliver and Alex cover the topics of the role of audio in architecture and engineering, auralisation for civil-engineering projects, and how academia and research drive the future of audio in engineering, and the challenges within the Acoustics Industry.’
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Episode outline: ‘NEWS: What is Article 13 and the effect it will have on your videos? The Top 20 DAWs according to Music Radar.
GUEST: Conan trumpet player and vocalist Mark Pender.’
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Episode outline: ‘Developing soundscapes for spatial computing experiences presents new challenges and opportunities. This L.E.A.P. Conference 2018 panel discussion brings together audio creators from very different backgrounds working on four different experiences for Magic Leap One: Create, Tónandi, Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders, and System UI. They share first-hand insights to help creators jump-start audio design in this new medium.
Presenters: Magic Leap: Anastasia Devana, Dave Shumway, Stephen Mangiat Weta Workshop: Stephanie Engelbrecht Sigur Ros: Paul Corley Skywalker Sound: Bill Rudolph.’
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Episode outline: ‘Two Days of intensive sessions, panels and masterclasses on the business, creative and technical challenges of game music and sound, designed for those coming from Film, TV, music and other more traditional media.’
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Episode outline: ‘Nathan Moody is a jack of all trades and he probably mastered a few of your favorite modular albums. In this episode of the Podular Modcast, we talk synths, music, mixing, and mastering. Tips and advice abound, along with a Buchla patch challenge!’