Tag: sound designer

As a sound designer I’m able to provide such services as post processing, audio production and audio engineering or I’m able to take part in productions as the sound engineer, sound technician or production designer.

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Music

Waltz of Time and Place — World’s First Place-Bound Musical Composition

The world’s first place-bound composition, Waltz of Time and Place, has now been performed. It can now also be experienced around your current location or again in its original location: geobuzz.app/gallery/

The work was created as part of the Siirtymä Ambient Music Festival.

Waltz of Time and Place looks like in the image, but the graphic appearance of the works is free. As here, the composition can also be described as a kind of musical Pokemon, showing which parts of the work are still to be discovered.

The gallery page is a compilation of ready place-bound compositions. The presentations include a tool that allows you to experience the works virtually by transporting the listener through the work.

GeoBuzz is an open tool, so your work can also be part of the gallery.

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Sound

Echotect — Turn your hood into a delay

I created the open source application Echotect, which allows you to turn your hood into a delay. It can also be used as an acoustic lab on some level. Add reflection points, structures, and use included global building data for automatic echo field mapping.

https://janne-s.github.io/Echotect/

The project can be exported as impulse response files to the reverb you use and the like; as stems of the echo field, and as the entire wet track. A Max4Live device is included, where you can import the echo field manifest in JSON format. You can also import the same JSON into your own applications.

It is possible to import an image into Echotect: a set design image, maybe a historical map or just a cool image that you want to match echo points to. There’s a scale tool to calibrate the image to real world measurements.

The Max4Live device is by default four-channel to implement surround sound if necessary, but go wild with it.

I personally like listening to sound from somewhere further away and finding interesting perspectives for music mixing and the like. The app basically allows IR file creation from any location, which I’d imagine could have uses in movie sound design.

The app is not designed to be a hard core acoustic simulator, but it goes a long way there. Reflections have reflections and they are affected by real world occlusions and other freely adjustable parameters. Deeper echo fields are best created in the render mode.

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Sound

Creative use of the gate effect: write messages into the waveform

This might be a nifty sound design trick. With the creative use of a gate effect, you can write messages into the amplitude waveform.

At the very least the resulting gate patterns are interesting.

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Art

Soundtrack Composition and Production for an Art Exhibition

An excerpt of the soundtrack loop for an exhibition by a Guadeloupean artist Karib.

The piece is largely based on the high-pitched sound of a reverberating cannon shell casing, which acts like a tuning fork after being fired. In this case, its frequency is about 4400 Hz, or slightly below C#, which corresponds to the wavelength of the casing’s diameter or the cannon’s caliber. The sound is played at different octaves/pitches and processed in various ways. It is mixed with the sound of a Tibetan prayer bell and a temporally lengthened and highly processed sound of a creaking door brings along an organic dynamism.

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Musician

CHLRDCN – Caribbean Black Metal-Techno

CHLRDCN is a black metal–techno trio from Guadeloupe, French Caribbean, featuring Robbie on vocals, Brendan on guitar, and me handling the techno elements and mixing.

Releases:

  • Leachate – Five track EP on Bandcamp