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Create Your Own Speaker Processing App + Sound Design Meets Computer Programming

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***UPDATE: GW Rodriguez just started his own audio blog. Check it out!***

For this seventh episode of Sound Design Live we have a guest post by sound designer, computer programmer, and didgeridoo player GW Rodriguez. He gives us a short intro on the intersection of theatrical sound design and computer programming along with his own speaker processing app.

Details from the podcast:

  1. Abe Jacobs, Cirque Du Soleil
  2. Software: Max/MSP, Qlab, SFX, TouchOSC, SoundFlower, Adobe Audition, SuperCollider, cSound
  3. Hardware: Yamaha 02R, LCS
  4. GW’s speaker processing app for Mac
GW Rodriguez at work

Sound Design for the Pulitzer Prize Winning Play “Ruined”

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In this sixth episode of Sound Design Live I talk with Aaron Meicht and Daniel Baker, the sound design and music production collective known as Broken Chord. We talk about their sound design for Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning play “Ruined.” Topics include researching Congolese music, cooperative design, and experimental theatre. At 52 minutes, this is the longest podcast to date, but they had a lot of good things to say plus Daniel’s accent is entertainment in itself.

Details from the podcast:Aaron Meicht and Daniel Baker

  1. Theatre: Ruined, Berkeley Rep, La Joia, Huntington, Bertolt Brecht, meta theatrical
  2. Music: Congolese Soukous, Justin Beiber -800%, Konono No.1, OZET
  3. Software: Logic Studio and Flex Time, Finale, Spectrafoo
  4. Hardware: M-Audio Axiom 25, AT3035, MOTU Traveler, Yamaha DM2K, UPA-1P, 650-P

Ruined at Berkeley Rep

How To Mic An 800 Seat Theatre With Floor Mics

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In this fourth episode of Sound Design Live I talk to Pierre Dupree, the audio supervisor at The Alley Theatre in Houston, TX, about where to go to graduate school, the dying art of theatrical acting, and how they successfully mic their 800 seat theatre with floor mics. Sorry about the sound quality, this is my first interview using Skype!

Details from the podcast:pierre dupree with mixing board

  1. Schools: University Of Dallas, Cal Art
  2. Theatre: The Pasadena Playhouse
  3. Mics: PCC, Choir, Super cardioid lavalier
  4. Speakers: CQ1, CQ2, JF80
  5. Software: Vectorworks, Qlab
  6. Terminology: “exploded center” = uncoupled point source array
  7. Forums: Theatre Sound, Qlab, TapeOp Magazine

Mixing For Emmylou Harris & Producing SXSW

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In this third episode of Sound Design Live I talked to award-winning sound designer Roy Taylor in Austin, TX about mixing for Emmylou Harris and Patty Griffin, production management for the SXSW music festival, and using technical limitations creatively. Sorry about the 8K area tones in Roy’s mic. Hopefully they won’t bother you too much.

Roy Taylor Home StudioDetails from the podcast:

  1. Artists: Pat MacDonald, Miles Copeland, Butch Vig, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Giles Reaves, Jay Joyce
  2. The Vortex theatre and their show Oceana
  3. Crown PCC Series and their boundary mic application guide.
  4. Lighting designer Jason Amato