This is a second post about audio education. In it I will explain what accreditation means and help you decide what kind of post secondary school (beyond high school) you might want to consider. There are basically two kinds of post secondary schools one could attend to prepare for a career in audio: a trade…
WATCHA YOU GONNA LEARN ME ABOUT AUDIO?
This blog is about audio education, but can also be extended to other forms of applied art. I recently viewed a blog about audio education where the blogger posted the viewpoint that many audio education programs emphasize theory too much rather than “practical” or “hands on” skills. I am sensitive to this issue as I…
SIRI, WRITE ME A TUNE
This post is about computer music composition. I touched on one form of this in an earlier blog where I described using algorithmic techniques to aid sound design and composition, but I want to take a longer look at different kinds of computer music composition in this post. First, let’s discuss some forms of “computer…
AUDIO DOCS
Need to save a “dying” sound? Call a Doc! (Sound Doc that is . . .) I am going to start this post by talking about photography, another field in which I have worked. If a young student walked up to me and said “I want to be a professional photographer” I might say “Are…
GIVE ME SPACE
There is one component of good audio that is probably more important than the brand of microphones one uses, the kind of recorder, etc. It is the acoustic space in which the recording is made. In an earlier post I talked about the very dry environment usually used for audiobook narration, but in this post…
PICTURES FOR RADIO
When I was in the advertising business some clients were concerned that radio is not an effective medium because there is nothing to look at. I have talked in other posts about the strength of images produced in the listener’s mind, but sometimes it can be helpful to show a product, a logo, or a…
DESIGNED RANDOMNESS
To many who know me, I am a typical product of the visual communication age. I took up photography at the age of nine, studied film and video in college, produced television programs, taught film and video, pioneered a form of computer animation and electronic image making, became an advertising designer, taught advertising and became…