The Aircon 2023 Vault Asbjoern Andersen

Posted by Asbjoern Andersen in Film sound, Game audio, Sound community highlights, Television sound


AirCon 2023 - the Airwiggles Audio Conference - has concluded! AirCon was a resounding success, and we are delighted to have helped bring you over 50 hours of live talks, panels, and interviews featuring inspiring audio professionals from around the world.

With so many live events to watch, we understand that it was nearly impossible to catch them all.

So, as promised, we have made the recordings of each live event available, for free, on Airwiggles. Below, you will find a comprehensive list of recordings from all 35 live events, 7 interviews, and 9 AMAs all neatly categorised for easy viewing. Enjoy!

Bonus: After you check out the vault, be sure to scroll to the bottom of this post for some more AirCon goodness: some statistics from AirCon's inaugural year, the incredible individuals who helped make it possible, and get a complimentary sample library by participating in a brief survey.
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Explore the complete AirCon 2023 vault:

Game Audio • Linear Audio • Technical Audio • Recording and Creating Audio • Voice Over • Beginner-focused • Soft Skills • Freelancing & Outsourcing • Soft Skills • Education in Audio

Take the AirCon Survey • AirCon statistics • Thanks to everyone involved

Explore the AirCon 2023 vault 

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Game Audio

 Linear Audio

 Technical Audio

 Recording and Creating Audio 

 Voice Over

 Beginner-focused

 Soft Skills

 Freelancing & Outsourcing

 Education in Audio

 
Take the AirCon 2023 audio conference survey

We greatly value your feedback on AirCon and the live events we hosted. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts by filling out the survey below. Your input will help us make AirCon even better in 2024!

By completing the survey, you will also get a free copy of Lewis Thompson’s sample library SALT: a collection of 300+ light, sprinkly, sparkly salt samples you can use to season your sound design. It’s not much, but hopefully you’ll get some use out of it.

Complete the survey here!

Thank you for taking the time to participate.

AirCon 2023 Audio Conference statistics
 
When we initially came up with the idea for AirCon, we never would have guessed how big it would become. The level of involvement from both participants and attendees exceeded our wildest expectations! Here are some standout statistics from AirCon 23 that we loved:

  • Over 50 hours of live events! We had 35 individual live events, resulting in a wealth of knowledge sharing equivalent to more than two full days!
  • A remarkable total of 77 industry professionals generously volunteered their time to contribute to AirCon through live events, AMAs, and interviews. A huge thank you to everyone involved!
  • We were thrilled to welcome 1380 attendees to Airwiggles during AirCon! A huge thanks to everyone in the community who tuned in!
  • Notably, 604 of these attendees were new users who joined us this month! A warm welcome to all of our new Airwiggling friends!
  • On average, our live events had an audience attendance of 78! That would be a pretty packed room in real life!
  • The busiest live event goes to “Field and Foley Recording for Game Audio” presented by Ben Reichstein and Arron Amo-Travers, which had 155 members in the live audience!
  • 3: That’s the total hours of sleep Greg and Lewis got over the 2 week conference. It was worth it! ;)

 
Thanks to everyone involved with AirCon 2023

We loved running AirCon on Airwiggles this year! Everyone has been saying it must have been a lot of work to put together – and it was – but we can’t overstate enough that without the help from so many amazing people, AirCon would have been pretty rubbish. As always, the audio community helped make AirCon as fun and interesting as it was, and I wanted to give a huge shout out to everyone who made it possible:

First off, I’d like to give a huge thanks to our ‘Airwiggles Senate’ as we like to call them: who help Greg and I with decisions, planning, and testing things behind the scenes:

Aaron Richards, Aidan Hall, Asbjoern Andersen, Daniel Richer, Heli Linnus, Jack O’Callaghan, Jamie Lee, Jon Kelliher, Katharina Bär, Lewis Ball, Sergio Ronchetti

Next, a huge thanks to our AirCon chat moderation team, who helped us ensure that all live events ran smoothly!

Aaron Richards, Heli Linnus, Jamie Lee, Jon Kelliher, Lewis Ball, Steve Simpson, Tomas Castillo

Now, a very special thanks to the following people for conducting some of our live events and interviews!

Jennifer Walden, Lewis Ball, Tomas Castillo

Next up, a big thanks to these wonderful Airwiggles users who kindly contributed to a behind-the-scenes SFX library as a courtesy gift for all of our speakers!

Aaron Richards, Aidan Hall, Andrew Weigh, Heli Linnus, Joe Wilson, Jon Kelliher, Lewis Ball, Noah Campodonico, Pablo Velasco

A big thanks to the team over at A Sound Effect for helping us shape AirCon into such an awesome event!

Asbjoern Andersen, Jennifer Walden

Now, a huge huge huge thanks to everyone who volunteered their time to give us all a wonderful AirCon live event, for free!

Aaron Richards, Adele Cutting, Aidan Hall, Alyx Jones, Antonio Bustos, Arron Amo-Travers, Ashton Mills, Ben Gallagher, Ben Reichstein, Chirag Machhar, David Fairfield, Em Halberstadt, Giovane Webster, Jack O’Callaghan, Jade Leamcharaskul, Jake Gaule, Jamie Lee, Jamie Molloy, Jon Kelliher, Juan Pablo Uribe, Karl Davis, Katharina Bär, Kevin Davey, Lewis Ball, Mark Mangini, Martin Rieger, Nathan Moody, Nick Dymond, Noa Beasley, Paolo Pavesi, Prashant Mishra, Presley Hynes, Rachel Sim, Ross Stack, Sergio Ronchetti, Steve Simpson, Tomas Castillo, Tyler Gillis, Zoe Freed

And a special thanks to our surprise guests who we published a series of pre-recorded interviews with!

Becky Sullivan, Bonnie Wild, Craig Henighan, James Mather, Johnnie Burn, Karen Baker Landers, Paula Fairfield

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A big thanks to everyone who volunteered their time to answer questions from the Airwiggles community with an AMA!

Barney Pratt, Disasterpeace, George Vlad, Jane Perry, Joonas Turner, Katie Tarrant, Mark Winter, Nathan Moody, Soundcuts

And a warm thank you to everyone who took the time to answer our quickfire interview questions!

Alexandra Fehrman, Alice Boyd, Alyx Jones, Austin Wintory, Christa Giammattei, Colugo, Eli Rainsberry, Fraser Strachan, Gina Zdanowicz, Jade Dickey, Kenny Young, Matthew Marteinsson, Nathan Moody, Rob Bridgett, Russell Shaw, Sam Hughes, Tee Lopes, Tim Nielsen, Waterflame

And, of course, a huge thanks to YOU! Thank you so much for being a part of the amazing Airwiggles and AirCon community. Thank you for attending talks, making posts, writing comments, sharing knowledge, and supporting each other! We’re constantly blown away by the amazing community here on Airwiggles and we’re looking forward to hanging out online with you all for another year!

See you next year at Aircon 2024
Thank you all again so much for tuning into Airwiggles Audio Conference! We’re hoping to be back next year with even more free live events and resources to share, but until then, we’ve got all kinds of fun things planned on Airwiggles for the audio community over the year. Be sure to hang around so you don’t miss anything!

Wishing you the best audio adventures,

— Lewis and Greg  

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    From the thunderous rotor blades slicing through the air, to the deep roar of its twin turbines, and the massive fly-bys that shake the ground, this collection delivers 46 minutes of sounds from one of the most iconic helicopters in history.

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    • APU start ups, takeoffs, landings, and hovering sequences.
    • Close and medium imposing fly-bys
    • Interior and Exterior perspectives
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