SOUND - JUST LISTEN

The 5th assignment

At HBO if I sound designed or composed something I really liked or thought was exceptional, I made a 1⁄4” copy on my “master” reels. There were MANY different things on these reels for HBO, ESPN, Comedy Central, E!, etc. I then took 10 years worth (1989 – 1998) of these masterpieces home to my studio and surgically edited and removed THE BEST bits of my 10 years of work - I thru them in a huge plastic bucket. This took months and the bucket got very full and as luck would have it, my young son and his friend played “chop- chop” one day on these tape fragments in the bucket, a further unsupervised edit. I proceeded to edit and layer all these pieces together. I found myself telling little stories about creating all this sound, what it was like to be a post production sound designer/mixer day in and day out at HBO, all the things you’d hear, all the very talented people you get to record, and the memories of it all. I was blessed and I hear that in every edit I made here, piecing my masters together – MASTERPIECING. I honestly hope that this helps explain all the sound works I make today – mine was always a life of listening and striving to create the best sounds I can, sound that opened my mind.

MASTERPIECING  (1998)

In this composition I use the following Field recording under the Attribution License:
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Artwork by:
<a href="https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/flat-icon-design-collection-iceberg-vector-16549988">Vector image by VectorStock / vectorstock</a>
Thanks to Sylvestre Vergez for musicological advice.

My Iceberg will not go on

My Iceberg Will Not Go On

An accousmatic piece written for a university module. It features ideas of timbral composition and relies heavily on the arrangement of energy and space.

Floe

This is a short excerpt of Bowl Chant - a composition I wrote for 4 Tibeten singing bowls and live electronic processing - it is a live performance

SOUND - JUST LISTEN

Sofi Etienne