 	
  Sound Design Competitions 	
  
  
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  In November 2008, Post Magazine and Blastwave FX teamed up to sponsor the first SONOPEDIA Sound Design Competition. The challenge was to create a 30 second sound design narrative using any of the 40 sound effects that was available to download free from Blastwave FX. The winner received SONOPEDIA™ - 20,000 HD sound effects on a 250 GB Glyph hard drive. The competition was judged by Academy Award winners Richard King, Randy Thom, and Lon Bender.

SONOPEDIA Sound Design Competition - Top 20

We had over 65 submissions from sound designers world wide. 
    
    "I was impressed by all of the entries.,  fantastic that there is so much talent out there..." -Lon Bender, one of our Academy Award Wining judges.

SONOPEDIA Sound Design Competition

Winning composition for the SONOPEDIA Sound Design Competition hosted by Blastwave FX and Post Magazine.  Designed by Weston Fonger, currently resides in NYC.  In his words, "A futuristic apocalypse reversion.  It was created only using the supplied sound fx, Protools software, and an array of plug-ins." 
  
  What Academy Award winner Richard King had to say about Weston's piece:
   
  "[this piece]... gave me the strongest emotional reaction ... It’s clear the sound designer was striving to tell a story – certainly an abstract one which the listener can interpret in any number of ways, but there’s a purposeful development to the sounds. The subtle moments are well done and pleasingly organic, with a very effective use of total silence in one transition, and the louder, denser sections retain their clarity. The sounds chosen stand out for their uniqueness and clarity and the mix is focused. Very good work!"
  
  Congratulations Weston, and nice work.

"Noitulove" by Weston Fonger

First runner up in the SONOPEDIA Sound Design Competition hosted by Blastwave FX and Post Magazine.
      
      Quote from Lon Bender, one of the Academy Award Winning judges:
      
      "[this piece] ... conveyed great creativity from a sonic standpoint
      ... additionally there is a clear understanding of the goal of the piece.  The overall structure of a sales piece is to make the reveal of the subject of the piece the most exciting, which I feel he really did successfully."   

"Trouble in Forest" by Bob Hart

This piece by Erik Reimers was the second runner up in the SONOPEDIA Sound Design Competition.
    
    Academy Award Winner Randy Thom had this to say about it:
    
    "Designing voices for creatures and robots is probably the most difficult kind of sound design there is.   [Bot vs Bee] had a nice narrative arc, it was funny, and I'm guessing the designer had to twist the raw sounds quite a bit to achieve the final result."

"Bot vs Bee" by By Erik Reimers

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