My name is Hervé . Im 27. I work as a freelance sound designer, audio technician and music producer for audiovisuals here in Barcelona Spain. 

I created a track for the Category "An imaginary Animal being born".

I focused my efforts in recreate all the subjective sounds from a natural birth.

I wanted to create from scratch all the diegetic sounds from the subjective point of vie of my imaginary animal and illustrate how he suffers at the moment of the birth.

 I didn't use any libraries, barely all the sounds been recorded using an Audio-technica condenser mic and an Apogee duet on Logic 9. 

The instruments are played by me, for the piano I used a Kontakt library and for the viola I used LASS scoring strings also on Kontakt. The composition is original.

I built the heartbeats using different kicks from libraries, and modulating the pitch and stoma parameters, and replaying it again using NI Battery and some EQ.

All the breaths are my own voices tweaked with some pitch shifting and EQ swell as difference techniques to build a better depth. Even the little noises that makes the newborn creature at the end are built from scratch.
The organic wet sound is also original, I recorded it using some water and different  organic objects at home.

The sweeps are explosions tweaked and reversed, they are the contractions.


Study at VFS its a dream to someone with limited resources like me. I hope you like my job,  Its been a long time since I started and I truly believe that the effort is the only way to achieve your goals in life. Well, effort, and a little bit of lucky.

Thank you for listening

VFS and SoundCloud Full Scholarship Challenge 2011-An imaginary animal being born-Herve Carpentier

EVERY SOUND HAS BEEN RECORDED AND CREATED FROM SCRATCH.
I used the same gear as my last submission "AN IMAGINARY ANIMAL BEING BORN, WHICH I UPLOADED 8 DAYS AGO.


My name is Hervé Carpentier de Changy, Im a  Sound designer and musician from Barcelona, Spain

For this track, I started recording the wind sound, which I built recording difference layers of me blowing into a condenser mic from the right position. After that, I worked the imaging using different tracks and pan.
I made a rusty paper effect using aluminum paper and moving. Afetr that, I worked with different sound layers. 
I made a patch using Absynth 5 and Sculpture synth to get this atmospheric pad.

I wanted to make a landscape but Im a big fan of  Scy-fi and post apocalyptic stories and I couldn't stop so I made a little story.
The running steps are recorded from scratch using different materials to obtain different sounds. After that, I used convolution reverbs and automatation to emulate the movement of the character. I used a backpack full of stuff to create the impact of the body against the ground.  I recorded the noice of my finger articulations to imitate the sound of an ankle breaking. After that, I used some empty cans to make some trash effects. 

I used the backpack and a dynamic mic to record the next foley sounds, after that, I used a Geiger sound sample, Its the only external sample I used because Geiger Counter is a very particle rsound and I wanted to get th perfect sound form that sci-fi classic sound.

The robot voice is mine, but processed with EQ and some vocal plug and pitch correctors and glitch style effects. 
The next voice, the human transmission, is built using the same weapons but looking for a different goal.
All the little electronic effects are built using minimoog softsynth and delays and EQ.

The mutant create steps are actually my steps, but processed with multiple EQ and pitch corrector, and some Convolution reverbs and automated patterns to obtain that approaching feel.


I worked a lot in reverb processing and put a lot of efforts to build something that really sounds credible and that its happening in a realistic environment. 
I think this is important in sound design for audiovisuals.

The throaty sounds are mines but modified and processed with EQ and some secret weapons I can detail if you need.


To me , sound is something that is gonna stay with me until the day I die. I produce music and sounds since Im 16, when I started to disassemble my old computer to install my first sound card. 

VFS is a dream for me, but I cannot afford this dream, but I believe in hard work and persistence, and improve my skills everyday, and I truly hope that one day I will achieve my goal.

herv