7 new podcasts worth hearing: Audio for Mixed Reality, interviews with Ana Monte, James Mather, Gordon Hempton, Jennill Park, a Tonebenders celebration, great reads and more!

Tonebenders celebrates their 100th episode with an epic new theme song, a “freaking amazing giveaway” and interviews with past guests like Ai-Ling Lee, David Whitehead, Mildred Iatrou Morgan, and others! On The Mastering Show, find out what the hosts recommend as their favorite books about mastering and audio. On the Immersive Audio Podcast, learn about designing sound for MR from a panel at Sennheiser during GDC. On the Location Sound Podcast, listen to an interiew with Jennill Park, a Minnesotan production sound mixer. On Sound Perspective, hear from James Mather about his work on the Harry Potter franchise, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Clash of the Titans, and more. On Twenty Thousand Hertz, Gordon Hempton shares his expertise in natural soundscapes and humanity’s effect on it. And finally, hear an interview by Julia Griffley with Ana Monte of DELTA Soundworks for Julia’s upcoming book Introduction to Interactive Digital Media: Concept & Practice.

Episode outline: ‘Over his long career, Gordon Hempton has mastered the art of truly listening. He’s known as the Sound Tracker. Some people call him an acoustic ecologist. His recordings and books have made him an international expert on the beauty and importance of undisturbed, natural soundscapes – and the ways human beings have changed them.

Now, Gordon Hempton is losing his hearing. But with that loss has come an intense urgency to share his life’s work — and his passion — with as many people as are willing to listen. ‘

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Episode outline: ‘Whilst on holiday in England, I hopped on the train to Twickenham Studios, just outside London, to have a chat with James Mather, who was sound supervisor of the last four Harry Potter films as well as having worked on Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Clash of the Titans and countless others. James has been working in the British industry for decades now, and he was kind enough to invite me to his studio for an interview on the eve of 2019.

James talked about some really interesting stuff including how they approached the changing tone of the Harry Potter franchise in the soundtrack, his methodology when working on action sequences and how picture editors and the sound department can learn from each other.’

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Episode outline: ‘You might argue that reading about audio is like dancing about architecture. Or something. But you’d be wrong! In these days of podcasts and YouTube it’s easy to forget how many great books there are about audio, and what a fantastic resource they are for getting inspiration, ideas and learning new topics and techniques. in this show we share some of our favourites, including:

* The book that took Ian several years to read, how to access it’s Secret Bonus Content, and why
* A book that tells you how to use a potato as a filter, amongst other things
* Books about a band that Ian says you NEED to read
* The only two books about mastering (that we know of)
* The books we haven’t read but know we should
* Invaluable writing about audio that isn’t in books
* Several things that aren’t books at all’

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Episode outline: ‘In this episode, we bring you the highlights from the “Audio Design for Mixed Reality Applications” panel hosted by Sennheiser during the Game Developers Conference last week in San Francisco.

The panel featured Jean-Marc Jot, a Distinguished Fellow with Magic Leap, Gio Jacuzzi, a 3D Audio Software Engineer with the Sennheiser AMBEO Team, Jack Daniel Gerrard, the Head of Sound at 1RIC, and Orfeas Boteas, the Founder and CEO of Krotos. The panel was moderated by Oliver Kadel, Co-founder and Audio Lead of 1.618 Digital’

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Episode outline: ‘Jennilee Park is a production sound mixer based out of Minneapolis-Saint Paul in Minnesota. She uses a Sound Devices 633 mixer/recorder, Lectrosonics SRc wireless receivers, SMDWB wireless transmitters and Wideband LTs. Sennheiser 2000 wireless hops, Tentacle Sync for timecode and Schoeps mini CMIT shotgun mics. Sanken COS-11Ds for lav mics.’

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Episode outline: ‘Life Death and a Box of Sound Effects! René, Teresa & Timothy sit down with Mark Mangini to listen to clips sent in by some of our favorite past guests. Ai-Ling Lee, David Whitehead, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van Der Ryn, John Warhurst, Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Nina Hartstone, Paul Davies, Richard King and Sylvain Bellemare, all contribute stories about some of their best days on the job.’

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Episode outline: ‘Ana Monte is the co-founder of DELTA Soundworks, a sound design company based in Sandhausen, Germany that does audio post-production for virtual reality and other immersive experiences. One of their recent projects has been to create sound for the Stanford Virtual Heart, an innovative interactive virtual reality training tool that takes the medical trainee inside and around a virtual heart, helping them to better understand pediatric heart problems and learn how to treat them. This interview is excerpted in: Introduction to Interactive Digital Media: Concept & Practice will be published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group in February 2020. More info? see: www.juliagriffey.com/idmbook’

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