The Aircon 2023 Vault Asbjoern Andersen


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 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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    Motion Graphics was created by and in collaboration with sound designer Rostislav Trifonov (SoundMorph Elemental library contributor).

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    • Impacts
    • Risers
    • Stingers
    • Low end and Sub Bass
    • Impulse Responses
    • Passbys
    • Textures – noise, grit, glitch
    • Ambiences
    • Buttons and Clicks
    • Mechanical Elements
    • Granular effects
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    Designed and sourced entirely from Richard Devine’s personal and exclusive Eurorack modular synths and processors collection, the Modular UI soundpack combines the retro, clean sound of analog with the futuristic tech of the new wave of advanced analog and digital synthesis from modular synths, evoking flashbacks of iconic sound design heard in both classic and modern sci-fi films.

    The Modular UI soundpack gives you access to sounds created by one of the masters of modular synths and sound design, and is sourced from equipment that would take a lifetime to purchase and assemble, giving an incredible value to this soundpack both artistically and financially.

    Utilizing many Eurorack modules that have not yet been released to the public and containing samples equally suited to sound designers and electronic musicians alike, Modular UI is in a class by itself!

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    The asset list includes but is not limited to: hippos, hyenas, vultures, dwarf mongooses, elephants, African cranes, parrots, tigers, pigmy hippos, rhea ostriches, brown bears, pheasants, wildebeests, African wild dogs and many more. The content has been recorded at 192KHz with a Sanken CO100K, an Avisoft CMPA and a Sennheiser 8050 for center plus two Sennheiser MKH8040 for stereo image.

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    Bring your games and apps to life with the Kawaii UI Bundle.

    It’s ideal for creating joyful menus, delightful HUDs, playful navigation and notifications, engaging pop-ups, and expressive text.

    Kawaii UI Trailer
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  • A collection of 135 potion sound effects.

  • A collection of 140 individual power up ability sound effects.

  • A collection of 103 bowling sound effects.


   

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