Study sound at the University of Edinburgh
In 2004-5, the MSc exploded with 17 full time and one part-time student. Candidates from Ireland, the USA, India, Taiwan and from across the UK took the course and produced work ranging from sound design for documentary to an exploration of the difference between live sound and pre-recorded sound accompanying visuals.
Below are biographies from some of the students.
Originally from the South of France near Avignon City, Julien has been performing live music in Edinburgh since 2003. After completing the MSc Sound Design in 2005 he worked freelance with different institutions and professionals creating musical soundtracks and sound designs for short and feature length films, including documentaries, experimental and multimedia video projects. He progressively moved to filmmaking in 2009 to explore storytelling through songs, genres and artforms. He directed his debut I’m Sorry Love which was nominated best screenplay for documentary at WMIFF Washington DC 2010.
His focus is now in designing unique cinematographic experiences in a live performance setting. His aim is to use a documentary approach to deal with the subject matter of education. His role goes from research to facilitation of creative workshops, both generating a range of storylines to be explored around a given theme, and experienced in the actual cultural landscape.
Ian joined the MSc Sound Design course immediately following a Bachelor’s Degree in Film, Photography and Digital Imaging, pursuing an interest in sound for the moving image, particularly digital sound technologies. Since the course, Ian worked for a local community video production company in Edinburgh before moving to the bright lights of London. A hair’s breadth away from securing a job with the BBC’s audio archive department, fate instead led Ian to work in a photographic agency where, liking it or not, a knowledge of celebrities and fashion photography became a necessary evil.
Having returned to Scotland, Ian is now juggling a bouncing baby boy with a PhD at the University of Glasgow, researching digital film technology and its influence upon low-budget realist filmmakers, focusing specifically on filmmakers in India, the empowerment of contemporary film practices and the subsequent evolution of a Digital New Wave cinema. Hopefully, this will lead to a film of his own combined with the thesis. In his ‘spare’ time, Ian likes to sleep.
Lin Li-Yuan, aka Lenny, is from Taiwan, ROC and studied electronic engineering in undergrad years. His name in Chinese stands for leaving for somewhere far away and he did it by embarking on postgrad studies in the UK and backpacking all over Europe.
Li-Yuan is mostly interested in creative generation of sound/music to picture, so after graduation he’s been doing media composition and sounds for animation/musical and his work being presented at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Digital Content Institute and State Guest House in Beijing. Other projects include music for Namco’s game and a few commercials. He usually composes orchestral or rock or progressive styles while constantly trying to adopt sound design techniques in them to create his own signature style.
After completing the Sound Design Msc. at Edinburgh, Marc worked as an assistant/runner for a post-production sound studio in Soho before moving to a DVD authoring facility where he designed sound and motion graphics, edited film and recorded/mixed directors commentaries. Following the closure of this facility, Marc produced Flash and web content as a freelancer before moving to an advertising agency working on accounts such as Ford Motorcars and British Telecom.
Marc now works as a Field Applications Engineer for Dolby Laboratories where he is involved in a variety of different audio projects. These have included the critical listening and testing of a 7.1 sound system for the new pre-production Jaguar S-Type as well as editing and mixing 5.1 audio for promotional material for the Playstation 3 launch. He has recently returned from the Cebit consumer electronics show in Germany where he was demonstrating new Dolby sound technologies in PC’s and Games Consoles and provided audio consultancy to Microsoft for their exhibition stand.
Bellerophone is Dimitris Santziliotis (30) from Greece
2000: after studying irrelevant things (from basketball to interior design) Bellerophone starts learning…Reason
between 2000-2001 he tried to communicate with other people but failed to start a band 2001:
alone & free, now he knows how to use reason (among other interesting things), starts and finishes home-recordings for his first release.
2002: he spends the year reading books and notes for production and mastering techniques then apply those techniques in his pieces 2003: his cd is ready and mastered (waits for a record deal) rehearsals with friend and musician for a new sound project
2004: Edinburgh (UK) studying sound design with Martin Parker, participating in art projects and electroacoustic festival.
2006: his first cd is finally out called “11 songs for polaroids & playmobils”. Great artwork by friend Georgia Simogianni (thanks a lot). Well received by the majority of local press and…cd buyers right now bellerophone is working 9-5 to an interior design bureau trying to find time to record and produce his 2nd cd. At the same he releases a series of experimental cd-rs called “sonic sculptures”. As Granny use to say : “a starving bear can’t dance!!”
Links;
web: www.bellerophone.net
web: www.myspace.com/bellerophone
visit: www.runideas.net – web & graphic design
Matt Green – Profile
Matt joined the Sonic Arts Research Centre in February 2007 to embark on a PHD in Interactive Soundscape Design. Matt is a recent graduate of the Sound Design Masters course at the University of Edinburgh (2005) and holds a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from the University of Nottingham (2003). Matt has exhibited interactive sound works through out the UK including ‘Bump!’ at the Manchester Futuresonic festival and a permanent piece ‘LyreBird’ housed within the Perth Concert Hall, Scotland.
Matt is particularly interested in the creative use of pervasive technologies and locative media, his future designs will incorporate this apparatus. Furthermore, these designs are to be informed by a personal study into Ecology and Cultural Anthropology.
After completing the Sound Design MSc, Bex remained in Edinburgh doing a variety of freelance sound work for the University, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a small, Edinburgh-based documentary company. In 2008 she relocated to New Zealand and is currently working as the Production Technician for a professional theatre. The work includes over-seeing and managing all aspects of production, recording and editing sound, sourcing sound recordings and music, designing soundscapes and operating sound for live shows.