

Wednesday
MIKE FIGGIS is known as someone who has continually explored alternative strategies for filmmaking – both economic and creative. He opens the SOS with a survey of how sound informs all the arts and media, from his perspective as a filmmaker, composer, musician, opera director, photographer and gallery artist.
NIGEL HELYER – The Nature and Culture of Sound: Nigel presents a series of sound-art projects that consider the relationships between sound, memory and place and how we use sounds and narratives to build consensual models of history and identity that transform geographical spaces into cultural places.
RINA SHERMAN presents Sound it out, a multi-sensory presentation of the art and the manner of creating soundscapes for films – documentary, ethnographic and fictional – and multidisciplinary exhibitions using a variety of media.
As a filmmaker, ethnographer and photographer, I am constantly preoccupied with the sounds of everyday life. I’m a classical musician by training, and whilst I no longer practice any instrument, I am cataloguing the sounds around me all the time. In doing so, I create the conceptual sound matter for composing plausible sound tracks and soundscapes for film tracks and exhibition spaces.
STEPHEN DEUTSCH presents The Fork in the Road, addressing the relationship between technology and creativity. Drawing comparisons between the effects of new instruments on the creation of classical music with the influence of digital equipment and applications on media and the arts, he reflects on the inherent biases that shape current work and how that affects audiences.
ROB WALKER and STEFAN SMITH – The Sound of ‘DAU’
In strict industry terms, Rob Walker has been a re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor while Stefan Smith is credited as a sound designer. But on Dau – a complex, evolving project involving a vast collection of material and a changing crew over 12 years – their constant roles at the core of Dau’s sound team merged in non-traditional ways. This presentation considers their special form of collaboration on a unique project.

Thursday
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI is an artist and filmmaker who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2017. In Light Relief, Rosalind talks about the compositions of music, sound and silence in her recent films. She describes her soundtracks, compared to visuals, as more accurate attempts to transmit the multi-layered inner experiences that happened during or before and after the shooting.
NEIL BRAND presents Adventures in the Missing Sense about his twin (and complementary) roles as silent film accompanist (creating sound for solo visuals) and radio playwright (creating visuals out of sound alone).
PAUL DAVIES focuses on his work with Lynne Ramsay as well as his work on ’71, Hunger and The American. He’ll explore the notion of subjective sound design, getting inside the head of the character, using sound rather than music. He’ll analyse his different approaches to sound design contrasting the pared down aesthetic of Hunger and Ratcatcher with the multi-layered style used in We Need to Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here.
KAREN COLLINS is a writer, researcher, sound designer and game designer. Her research explores the relationship between sound and technology, with particular attention to interactive technologies like video games, slot machines and mobile. Her talk is entitled, ‘AI ate my sound design’.
PETER VUUST is a unique combination of a jazz musician and a world class scientist. He focuses on improvisation in Groove on the brain – the neuroscience of musical complexity.

Friday
SINÉAD RUSHE discusses her theatre production of Bernard-Marie Koltès’s play Night Just Before the Forests. It reimagines the original monologue as a polyphonic work for five performers of different nationalities and genders, featuring a ‘quadraphonic’ sound design which will be demonstrated live on stage.
AIN BAILEY has been conducting sound workshops with LGBTI+ refugees and asylum seekers following a commission by Serpentine Projects. In her talk, Bailey gives an overview of her practice leading up to current work on sonic biographies and grief.
SUSANNE ABBUEHL is an ECM recording artist and is currently Professor of jazz voice, ensemble and composing for and with words at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Lucerne as well as at the Haute école de musique HEMU in Lausanne. Her talk focuses on ‘word sound’ – words in music, composing for poetry and subtext.
RICHARD KING is a supervising sound editor who has created soundtracks for Oscar-winning films Dunkirk, Inception, The Dark Knight and Master and Commander. Here he reflects on his sound design techniques, his influences and the nature of collaboration in high-level, big budget features.

Saturday
MEET THE SPEAKERS in the QEH / Purcell Room Foyer: An opportunity to meet informally with the speakers – to ask questions about their talks, pick their brains and just get to know them.
PROF MORTEN KRINGELBACH describes the underlying brain networks and mechanisms involved in experiencing meaningful pleasures from making music with others, exploring the links between space, jazz, empathy and eudaimonia (happiness).
THE QUAY BROTHERS, filmmakers, animators, designers, in conversation with Larry Sider, explore the ways in which music and sound give life to inanimate objects, with particular attention to their film In Absentia, made with Karlheinz Stockhausen, and an animated work by Jan Švankmajer with score by Liška.
ROD STONEMAN closes the School of Sound with Radical Form, addressing how artists and media producers can instil greater diversity in their work – both in content and working methods – and how this thinking must begin in the universities, art and film schools. Wide ranging examples from African cinema, mainstream Hollywood and European experimental work of the 1970s suggest new ways of working with sound and allow us to rethink the aesthetics and politics as well as the place and purpose of sound.
Speakers’ Biographies

AIN BAILEY
Ain Bailey is a sound artist and DJ. Her practice involves an exploration of sonic autobiographies, architectural acoustics, live performance, as well as collaborations with performance and visual artists. Among these is artist Jimmy Robert, who commissioned Bailey to create a composition for his 2017 show ‘European Portraits’ at PEER Gallery, London. ‘Oh Adelaide’ (2010), her collaboration with the artist Sonia Boyce, has shown widely, and includes: Tate Britain; the Whitechapel Gallery and The Kitchen, New York.
In 2016, Bailey was commissioned by Art Basel Miami Beach to compose for the Soundscape Park. Bailey also devised a Study Week at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, which considered the role of sound in the formation of identity. In addition to this, in 2017, Bailey collaborated with Gaylene Gould on the creation of a Sonic Trail for Tate Britain, London; performed at Guest, Ghost, Host: Machine!, the 2017 Serpentine Marathon.
Bailey is a research student at Birkbeck, University of London (on a break in studies), and was guest professor in sound at Kunsthochschule Kassel for the winter semester 2017/2018. Recently, Bailey completed a residency at the ICA, London, where she curated three events, as well creating a new composition. Currently, following a commission by Serpentine Projects, Bailey is conducting sound workshops with LGBTI+ refugees and asylum seekers.
Bailey gives an overview of her practice leading up to current work on sonic biographies and grief.
www.ainbailey.tumblr.com
Photo credit: Cacau Fernandes

NEIL BRAND
Neil Brand presents ‘Adventures in the Missing Sense’ about his twin (and complementary) roles as silent film accompanist (creating sound for solo visuals) and radio playwright (creating visuals out of sound alone).
Neil has been a silent film accompanist for over 30 years, regularly in London at the Barbican and BFI National Film Theatres, throughout the UK and at film festivals and special events around the world, where he has inaugurated the School of Music and Image to teach up-and-coming young pianists about silent film accompaniment.
Training originally as an actor, he has made his name as a writer/performer/composer, scoring BFI video releases of such films as South (Shackleton’s Journey to the South Pole), The Ring by Alfred Hitchcock, Piccadilly (premiered at the Lincoln Centre), the great lost film The Life and Times of David Lloyd George and Early Cinema. His most recent DVD scores are for Sherlock Holmes (the great lost Gilette film), Ozu Classics for Criterion and, for the Cinémathèque Français, Maison du Mystere, Le Brasier Ardent, Les Adventures de Robert Macaire and Mauprat.
Neil is also a prolific radio playwright including Sony – and Tinniswood – nominated dramas Stan (which he adapted for BBC TV) and Getting the Joke, as well as establishing the regular live-recorded musical series The Big Broadcast. Recently he has toured to Edinburgh Fringe, Finland’s Midnight Sun Festival, Padua Opera House, Kilkenny comedy festival, the Middle Eastern International Film Festival and throughout the UK and abroad with his hilarious and touching one-man-show, The Silent Pianist Speaks.
Neil is becoming well-known as a TV presenter on BBC4 with his hugely successful series Sound of Cinema, The Music that Made the Movies and Sound of Song, is a regular presenter on Radio 4’s Film Programme, a Fellow of Aberystwyth University and a Visiting Professor of the Royal College of Music and is considered one of the finest improvising piano accompanists in the world. http://www.neilbrand.com

KAREN COLLINS
Karen Collins is the author of 8 books on music and sound, including Game Sound, Playing with Sound, The Beep Book, and the forthcoming Studying Sound. From 2007-2017 she was the Canada Research Chair in Interactive Audio at the University of Waterloo, where she won multiple awards for her research, including a Google Faculty Research Award and induction into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars. She is also an independent filmmaker, sound designer and game designer, and directed and edited the award-winning documentary Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound. Her research explores the relationship between sound and technology, with a particular focus on interactive technologies like video games, slot machines and mobile. www.karencollins.ca.

PAUL DAVIES
With a background in electronic music, Paul Davies graduated from the sound course of the National Film and Television School in 1993. After working as a sound recordist, sound editor and dubbing mixer on a variety of feature, broadcast and corporate work, Paul was employed as a sound editor at Videosonics in Camden. In 2000, Paul became a freelance supervising sound editor and sound designer and in 2003 he established his own sound post-production company, PDSoundDesign.
Paul is best known for his long-time collaboration with director Lynne Ramsay, having created the tracks for Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk About Kevin and her latest film, You Were Never Really Here.
His other credits include Steve McQueens’s Hunger, John Maybury’s Love is the Devil, ’71 (Yann Demange), Stephen Frear’s The Queen, Film Star’s Don’t Die in Liverpool and The Proposition. His television credits include Red Riding 1980, Boy A and Southcliffe.
Paul is a regular visiting tutor at the National Film and Television School and has held masterclasses and workshops at Harvard, The Baltic Film School in Estonia, the School of Sound, BAFTA and at the CPH:Dox festival in Copenhagen. www.pdsound.co.uk

STEPHEN DEUTSCH
Stephen Deutsch has had his concert music performed by eminent artists, including the Medici Quartet, David Campbell, The Gaudier Ensemble, Andrew Ball, The London Mozart Players and many others. He has composed over thirty scores for film, theatre, radio and television. His many collaborations with the late playwright Peter Barnes include Jubilee (2001), the Olivier Award winning play, Red Noses (1985) and the feature film Hard Times (1994).
Stephen was educated initially in the United States (Julliard Preparatory Division; BMus – SMU; MA – San Francisco State University). After settling in Britain he attended the Royal College of Music where he was engaged in electro-acoustic composition under the direction of Tristram Cary. In 1971 he and two partners established Synthesizer Music Services, Ltd., an electro-acoustic studio in London.
His recent activity has been in combining music and sound design for moving images. He has directed and composed music/sound for a documentary, Pictures from Applecross which was released in April 2017.
At Bournemouth University, he is Professor of Post-Production. He has also served as Visiting Tutor in Screen Composition at the National Film & Television School. Within both institutions he has trained over 60 composers, some of whom have since provided music for feature films, theatre, television and computer games.
From 2010-2018, he was co-editor of The New Soundtrack, an academic journal focusing on all the aural elements which combine with moving images.
His first novel, Zweck was published by Troubador Press in 2016.

MIKE FIGGIS
Mike Figgis is an artist who combines various disciplines. After studying music and playing with various ensembles Mike joined the experimental performance group People Show and toured extensively for ten years. After forming his own group Mike began to experiment with film and sound, combining these elements with live theatre and opera.
His first film, a one hour political fantasy for Channel 4 called The House, brought him into the domain of cinema.
Stormy Monday, set in the gritty crime world of Newcastle combines British and American actors and its success in the USA was followed by an extended period of mainstream feature filmmaking with Mike resident in Los Angeles.
Leaving Las Vegas, financed by an independent French company, was made on a very low budget and shot on Super 16mm film (in 24 days) and was a huge success, nominated for four Academy Awards, one for each of the actors and two for Figgis as both writer and director. Figgis also composed the score for the film. Nicolas Cage won the Oscar for best actor.
Encouraged by the success of a more experimental and minimal approach to filmmaking, Figgis continued to push boundaries and Timecode (2000) was the first real-time digital film ever made, preceding Russian Arc by a few years.
Since 2000 Mike Figgis has been at the forefront of the digital revolution. The Fig-Rig was designed by Figgis specifically for the new generation of smaller digital cameras and this innovative camera support system has spawned countless variations.
Mike Figgis devotes considerable time to teaching and writing books and articles on cinema techniques. Digital Film and The 36 Dramatic Situations for Cinema have both addressed the challenges of the new cinema and have become text books for young filmmakers. mikefiggis.co.uk

DR NIGEL HELYER
In The Nature and Culture of Sound, Nigel presents a series of sound-art projects that consider the relationships between sound, memory and place and how we use sounds and narratives to build consensual models of history and identity that transform geographical spaces into culturalplaces. Our memories are structured around associative triggers, often sensory experiences, odours, sounds and music but also physical structures, buildings and landscapes. Location is a central feature in the processing of memory which is managed by the Hippocampus, activating a complex network of Place; Grid and Border cells to establish spatial memories – thus our sense of place is a product of the deep neuronal structures in our brain.
Dr Nigel Helyer (aka DrSonique) is a contemporary polymath whose work links Art and Science, or more accurately Poetics and Technics, in a strong embrace of the environment, identity and cultural history. He has an international reputation as a sculptor and sound-artist who creates large scale sound-sculptures, environmental artworks and inter-active projects that prompt the community to engage with their cultural histories, identity and sense of place; inviting us to examine the abstract conditions of our world and our complex relationships to it.
His practice is interdisciplinary and collaborative, developing projects that expand the boundaries of experimental practice, especially in the areas of Art and Science, Environmental-Art and Bio-Arts, leading to projects such as GeneMusiK, a prototype DNA+Music remixing system; Host a sonic installation with live insects that has toured to seven international festivals. Nigel was the Artistic Director of the ground breaking LifeBoat bio-art project and co-founder of the SoundCulture that produced a series of major international sound-art festivals in the Asia Pacific region from 1991 to 2012.
Nigel works across aesthetic and discipline boundaries with a prolific track record of projects at peak international centres. His Australian R&D work in augmented audio-reality with Lake Technology (now Dolby Australia) and as the Creative Director of the Audio-Nomad Research Group, resulted in a series international patents and major immersive sound exhibitions.
He is a leader experimenting in the creative sonification of bio-data, produced as a series of cultural and environmental audio-portraits: VoxAura, The River is Singing, European Capital of Culture Turku 2011; CrayVox, WA Spaced Biennale 2012; When Science meets Art, a three year ARC project with the Bundanon Trust 2014/8; and Under the Icecap, a long-term collaboration with the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and the Conservatorium of Music (University of Tasmania) sonifying bio-logging data collected by Southern Elephant Seals in the Antarctic..
This year he realised Oratorio for a Million Souls, a series of bee listening spaces created in three botanical gardens (Leeuwarden, Emden and Oldenburg for the European Capital of Culture) this project also interact with one hundred local schools and three brass bands. www.sonicobjects.com
RICHARD KING
RICHARD KING grew up in Tampa Florida sailing, riding bikes, drawing, occasionally going to school and making Super-8 films with his friends. In 1980 he received a BA in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida in Tampa and moved to New York to pursue drawing and filmmaking.
Since 1985 he has worked in motion picture sound, and has had the good fortune to work with such directors as Nicolas Roeg, Sam Shepard, M. Night Shyamalan, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, William Friedkin, Kenneth Branagh, Peter Weir, Steven Spielberg, and Christopher Nolan.
He is the recipient of four Academy Awards, three Bafta Awards, and four MPSE awards for best sound editing for Dunkirk, Inception, The Dark Knight, War of the Worlds and Master and Commander.
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.
PROF MORTEN KRINGELBACH
Professor Morten L Kringelbach directs his Hedonia Research Group based at the Universities of Oxford and Aarhus. His prize-winning research uses neuroimaging and whole-brain computational models of, for example, music, sounds, infants, taste, sex and drugs to find ways to increase hedonia and eudaimonia – pleasure and happiness. His talk will describe the underlying brain networks and mechanisms involved in experiencing meaningful pleasures from making music with others. This involves exploring the links between space, jazz, empathy and eudaimonia.
ROSALIND NASHASHIBI
Born in Croyden, Nashashibi studied art in Sheffield and at Glasgow School of Art. She was awarded the Beck’s Futures Prize in 2003. In 2007 she exhibited as part of Scotland + Venice at the 52nd Venice Biennale. In 2017, she was nominated for the Turner Prize. She has exhibited widely and her solo shows include Murray Guy, New York (2013); Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp (2013) and ICA, London and Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2009).
Rosalind Nashashibi makes films which reveal the rhythms and patterns of everyday life, and explore the boundaries between reality and fiction. Although she uses real situations, Nashashibi is not interested in documenting real life in an anthropological manner. Rather, she is fascinated in the rituals played out by social groups, such as families, community groups and students. She explores the passage of time and the ways in which we interact with our environment and with each other, finding interest in everyday situations. In addition to short films, Nashashibi has also made drawings and collages. (Biography from National Galleries Scotland)
“Her films use the camera as an eye to convey moments and events, merging everyday observations with fantastical and mythological elements. The films are often meditative and sensuous and utilise an array of filmic conventions.”
QUAY BROTHERS
The Quay Brothers were born in 1947 near Philadelphia where they studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, then later in London at the Royal College of Art. Since 1979, they have created a hybrid variety of film works: Puppet animation: Street of Crocodiles, Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, The Comb, Maska, Unmistaken Hands; Live-Action films: In Absentia, Institute Benjamenta and Piano Tuner of Earthquakes; Documentaries: Anamorphosis, The Phantom Museum, Through the Weeping Glass, Inventorium of Traces; and three film collaborations for the Ballet: Duet and The Sandman for Will Tuckett and with Kim Brandstrup, Eurydice: She, So Beloved.
They have regularly designed decors for the Opera, Theatre and Ballet: Prokofiev’s Love for Three Oranges (Opera North and English National Opera); Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic); Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa (Bregenz Festival/Netherlands Opera); Moliere’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Royal National Theatre); Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (Almeida); Ionesco’s The Chairs (Theatre de Complicite and Royal Court); and for the Wiener Festwochen, Olga Neuwirth’s opera Baalaams Fest; The Cricket Recovers by composer Richard Ayres for Aldeburgh and Almeida Opera. Britten’s Paul Bunyan for Bregenz and Luzern. Theater of the World, Louis Andriessen’s Opera and co-production between Dutch National Opera and Los Angeles Philharmonic. For the Harold Pinter Theatre London, The Birthday Party and for Ballet Rambert, Calderon’s Life is a Dream.
SINÉAD RUSHE
Theater director Sinéad Rushe studied at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France before training as an actor at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK where she currently teaches on the BA Acting CDT programme. She specialises in the Michael Chekhov Technique and Meyerhold’s Biomechanics.
Directing credits include Concert (Centre National de la Danse, Paris, and 2017 Dublin Dance Festival; Gradam Comharcheoil TG4 2018 Award-Winner), Out of Time (The Pit, Barbican, London, Baryshnikov Arts Centre, New York & international tour; nominated for Olivier and Dance Critics’ Circle Award), Gogol’s Diary of a Madman with Living Pictures (Sherman Cymru, Cardiff, & international tour) and Something or Nothing with Guy Dartnell (The Place Theatre and tour), commissioned by Sadler’s Wells.
She has directed four shows with her own company, out of Inc: Loaded (The Old Rep, Birmingham, Jacksons Lane, London), Night-Light (Oval House, London, Bristol Old Vic & tour), Life in the Folds (BAC, London & tour), and An Evening with Sinéad Rushe (BAC, London), all supported by Arts Council England.
She is the author of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide, (Methuen 2019), and is the co-translator into French of four plays by Howard Barker (published by Editions Théâtrales, Paris).
Sinéad will discuss her recent theatre production of Bernard-Marie Koltès’s play Night Just Before the Forests for the Macau Arts Festival in China. Performed in the round, this pathbreaking work in a new translation reimagines the original monologue as a polyphonic work for five performers of different nationalities and genders, and features a ‘quadraphonic’ live sound design by German sound artist Niels Lanz (demonstrated during her talk). www.sineadrushe.co.uk.
RINA SHERMAN
A recipient of the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs prize and the Lavoisier bursary of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she undertook a seven-year fieldwork study of Ovahimba and other Otjiherero speaking communities in Namibia and Angola.
From the body of filmed and photographic images and sound recordings that she constituted during that time,she has produced films, books, multimedia exhibitions and photographic collections. Her archival collection resides with the National Library of France, who dedicated an exhibition, ‘The Ovahimba Years / Rina Sherman’ to the collection in 1915.
She has created K éditeur, and is preparing a photo book of the photographer, Philippe Ciaparra.
As a curator, Rina Sherman has participated in numerous cultural projects: In 2018, she has showcased an exhibition by photographer Philippe Ciaparra. She was audiovisual curator for the exhibition ‘South Africa: Music of Freedom’ in La Villette, Paris, 1995.
In 1996, she was curator of Jean Rouch’s tour of South African universities in collaboration of the French Institute in South Africa (IFAS) and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Namibia. In 2002, she presented a multimedia exhibition at the Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre in Windhoek.
In 2011, a retrospective of Rina Sherman’s films was held at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, with two programs, ‘Life in the City’ and ‘The Ovahimba Years’. www.rinasherman.com
STEFAN SMITH
Stefan Smith studied music at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he worked with musical luminaries such as Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Pauline Oliveros and Roscoe Mitchell. After graduating he was employed as an assistant to the legendary synthesiser designer Don Buchla.
Stefan makes his music with synthesisers and drum machines, and when he is not making music he works as a sound designer and composer for films and installations.
For the past five and a half years Stefan has been sound designer / composer on the infamous Dau project – the biggest film project in history (which has currently been in production for 12 years). For the recent premiere at the Théâre de Châtelet he developed (alongside Robert Walker and Brian Eno) a sound installation that played in the two theatres that hosted the events.
He has an ongoing collaboration with sound designer Nicolas Becker (Gravity, Arrival, American Honey). Through this relationship he contributed sound towards the recent Philippe Parreno Anywhen exhibition in the Tate Modern Turbine hall in London. Stefan and Nicolas are currently working on an album for Sapiens records.
He is also releasing a solo LP of his electronic music production through Sapiens records in early 2019.
ROD STONEMAN
Rod Stoneman is an Emeritus Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway and a Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England. He was the Director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Chief Executive of Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board and previously a Deputy Commissioning Editor in the Independent Film and Video Department at Channel 4 Television. He has made a number of documentaries, including Ireland: The Silent Voices, Italy: the Image Business, 12,000 Years of Blindness and The Spindle. He is the author of Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, A Case Study of Politics and the Media; Seeing is Believing: The Politics of the Visual and Educating Filmmakers: Past, Present and Future with Duncan Petrie.
PETER VUUST
Peter Vuust is a unique combination of a jazz musician and a world class scientist. As a researcher, he is Denmark’s leading expert in the field of music and the brain – a research field he has single-handedly built up as leader of the group Music In the Brain. He is internationally recognised, widely quoted and received, in October 2014, the Danish National Research Foundation’s grant of DKK 52 million to found the Center for Music in the Brain. As a composer and bass player he has collaborated with a variety of artists, from Danish pop stars to some of the world’s major, international jazz artists, and in November 2014 he was nominated for a Danish Music Award for ‘Best Danish Vocal Jazz Album’ with his own quartet and Veronica Mortensen. www.petervuust.dk
ROB WALKER
Rob Walker is a London based Re-recording Mixer and Sound Designer with 20 years’ experience in independent film and TV. He has spent the last 4 years working on multiple films for DAU, Ilya Khyrzhanovskiy’s expansive film and art project. In addition, his sound installations created alongside Brian Eno and Stefan Smith have formed the sonic architecture of the release venues for DAU.
Rob studied Film and Media at the University of Stirling and then UCLA. An internship at James Cameron’s Digital Domain resulted in working on Fight Club. Whilst in Los Angeles he got his first feature film credit for sound on Christopher Chen’s Traces of Us. He was then the Supervising Sound Editor on Daybreak for FilmFour Lab.
He went on to work with director Desmond Bell. Rebel Frontier, a documentary with Martin Sheen told the story of how murder was used to suppress Union activity in Montana. Child of the Dead End with Stephen Rea was made for the BBC and TG4. The drama The Enigma of Frank Ryan also screened widely. Pablo’s Winter by Chico Perreira, a drama/documentary hybrid opened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
Rob also lectured at Screen Academy Scotland and taught on the MA in Sound at Edinburgh Napier University. He has also published writing on Mark E Smith and The Fall, the sound of the TV show The Wire and the topic of Cinematic Tinnitus.
In 2013 he wrote and directed a feature length film, RSJ.
He produces electronic music under various guises and performs as half of the duo Blinov.
He is the chairman of AMPS, the Association of Motion Picture Sound. www.robwalkersound.com