OISTAT Sound Design Working Group Webinar #2

Music Plundering

Presented by David Smith and Jason Romney
In association with The University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Wednesday May 19th - 6pm (GMT)

This webinar will introduce sound designers to the skills and techniques necessary to better tailor pre-recorded music cues to fit the transitional needs of a production.

There is a long tradition of using pre-recorded music in regional, community and educational theatre. Most of that music is either started or faded up and then faded out when needed. This Webinar will show how music is constructed and how it can be easily pulled apart and rearranged to better fit the arc and duration of a transition or underscore. Even if you regularly compose your own music, this webinar will allow a composer to better produce and shape temp tracks before composing their own. For the webinar we will be using Apple Logic. However, we will be using it in such a basic way that the techniques covered could be easily accomplished using your editor of choice.

The webinar does not require any previous musical ability.

David Smith
Director of the Sound Design Program; Sound Design Faculty, The University of North Carolina School of the Arts
David Smith earned a B.A. from the University of Kent, Canterbury. Before immigrating to the United States, he spent eight years at the Royal National Theatre in London, England. In the United States, he has designed sound for Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.; the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Mass.; Trinity Repertory Theatre in Providence, R.I.; the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Ga.; and more recently at Triad Stage in Greensboro and the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem. Other credits include theatre sound editor for Live Sound International magazine, executive committee member with the Audio Engineering Society (Boston Section), and Commissioner for the USITT Sound Commission. Mr. Smith was nominated for the Helen Hayes Award in 1995 for Outstanding Sound Design.

Jason Romney
Sound Design Faculty, The University of North Carolina School of the Arts Jason Romney received his B.F.A. in theatre design and technology from Utah State University and his M.F.A. in sound design from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He has designed sound professionally at Triad Stage, Playmakers Rep, Alliance Theatre Company, Piedmont Opera, Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Utah Festival Opera, and others. Mr. Romney is
also a computer programmer developing software solutions for sound designers and engineers. His programs are used by professionals in the theatre, film and music industries and in educational institutions across the country. Mr. Romney is an associate of the Center for Design Innovation, an interinstitutional center of NCSA, Winston-Salem State University, and Forsyth
Technical Community College. He also serves as vice commissioner for the computing industry on the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Sound Commission. He is currently the co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation curriculum development research grant: "Linking Science, Art, and Practice Through Digital Sound," a joint research project with Wake Forest University.

It's important that you register by email with your name and institution / company information, as soon as possible to StevenBrown@listenhear.co.uk, dhhuston@gmail.com

Details about how to log in and take part in this webinar will be sent out to all registered participants nearer the time.