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Meeting Report: November 2023 – David Lauritsen on Game Sound Design

2023/11/182023/11/18Secretary

On Monday 13^th November, the Melbourne Section of the AES held our (slightly delayed) bi-monthly meeting.

Game Sound Designer/Educator/Musician David Lauritsen presented on the topic of:

Video Game Sound Design and Curriculum Development:

Developing the Skills for a Growing Field

After a brief introduction from Section Chairman Graeme Huon, David started his presentation by outlining his history as a musician and developing an interest in audio engineering, leading to his study for a Bachelor of Audio Engineering and a Masters of Creative Industries. He briefly covered his audio recording work at Coloursound and Black Pearl Studios, and film sound work, moving on to audio education at JMC Academy and ultimately into game sound design at Big Ant Studios (AFL23 and Cricket24)

Photo of Graeme Huon — Section Chair Graeme Huon introduces David

Photo of David Lauritsen — Section Chair Graeme Huon introduces David

Our Next Meeting

2023/11/182023/11/18Secretary

Planning is underway for our next meeting.
The Committee is feverishly beavering away organising another site tour for February 2024.

Stay tuned!!

November 2023 Meeting Notice: Video Game Sound Design and Curriculum Development

2023/10/212023/10/21Secretary

We are going in-person yet again!

The next meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be an in-person event to be held on Monday 13^th November 2023 at 7:30pm at the Fairfield campus of the Melbourne Polytechnic (details below).

It will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/AESMelbourneSection

Game Sound Designer/Educator/Musician David Lauritsen will present on the topic of:

Video Game Sound Design and Curriculum Development:

Developing the Skills for a Growing Field

Meeting Report: August 2023 – Ben Osmo on Film Location Sound Mixing

2023/08/222023/08/22Paolo Menolotto

On Monday 14^th August, the Melbourne Section of the AES held our Annual General Meeting followed by our regular bi-monthly meeting.

Further details on the AGM proceedings can be found at https://aesmelbourne.org.au/2023-agm

Following the AGM, Academy Award winner Ben Osmo (Best Achievement in Sound Mixing 2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road) presented on the topic of:

Film Production Sound Through the Years
changes and added responsibilities.

Newly re-elected Chairman Graeme Huon introduced Ben with a brief outline of Ben’s career.

Ben Osmo in front of his "sound cart" — Ben Osmo in front of his “sound cart”

Ben then took us through his career in location sound production from his start in 1975 at the ABC. He told us that the typical setup of the time was a Nagra portable battery-operated tape recorder and a shotgun microphone on a long boom pole. He explained that the shoots were often one-camera affairs with shots framed as wide-shot, mid-shot, and close-up with the microphone positioned accordingly to achieve the appropriate sound balance.

Photo showing the crush of news crews covering a live event. — The one-man sound crew.

Photo of early film set with sound recorder and boom operator — The one-man sound crew.

Video Game Sound Design and Curriculum Development:

Developing the Skills for a Growing Field

We are going in-person yet again!

Video Game Sound Design and Curriculum Development:

Developing the Skills for a Growing Field

Film Production Sound Through the Years changes and added responsibilities.

Film Production Sound Through the Years
changes and added responsibilities.