Music, Sounds and Media Production

Jack Arthur Simanjuntak

Twitter: @jackartsonic

Music, Sound Design and Media Production

April 7th 2011-Akademi Berbagi, Wisma BNI

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?Lecturer & head program of Sound Design

Recording, mixing engineer

Sound designer, sound illustrator

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Questions

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Questions

What is this song about?

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Questions

What is this song about?

What emotions are involved?

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Questions

What is this song about?

What emotions are involved?

What message is the artist is trying to say?

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Prologue

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Prologue

•What is music

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Prologue

•What is musicThe art of combining/organizing sounds to create aesthetics response to the audience

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Prologue

•What is musicThe art of combining/organizing sounds to create aesthetics response to the audience

•Music Elements

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Prologue

•What is musicThe art of combining/organizing sounds to create aesthetics response to the audience

•Music ElementsPitch/frequency, rhythm, intensity/dynamic, timbre/tone

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Prologue

•What is musicThe art of combining/organizing sounds to create aesthetics response to the audience

•Music ElementsPitch/frequency, rhythm, intensity/dynamic, timbre/tone

Music is sound and sound is physics

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I prefer say that I'm a sound-crafter. My main job is to communicate the musical messages through creativity and art of recording. I apply architectural philosophy and it helps me a lot. I see both has similar strategy in techniques and an art. -Jack Simanjuntak-

•Beat

•Phase

•Sound illusion

Using this as elements for SOUND DESIGN

Phytagoras

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Sound & Physics

I prefer say that I'm a sound-crafter. My main job is to communicate the musical messages through creativity and art of recording. I apply architectural philosophy and it helps me a lot. I see both has similar strategy in techniques and an art. -Jack Simanjuntak-

•Beat

•Phase

•Sound illusion

Using this as elements for SOUND DESIGN

Phytagoras

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Music Production Chain

Common Production Chain-Recorded Music

Producer’s Role:Mainly start from arranging-recording and mixing direction.There is strong link between arranging-recording-mixing. Thus it looks unreasonable for a producer or recording engineer to have no mixing experience.A good producer should be able to supervise arranging, observes recording process and vision in the mix.

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Artistic Elements of Sound

Core Mix Aspects

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Loudness War

•Misconception: louder means great

•Causes: standard audio for radio-television, instant-music technology, compressor tools in mixing and mastering process

•Comparison: 1980’s-1990’s-2000’s

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Frequency Spectrum

The Basic Four-Band

Dull - brittleBoomy

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Visual Mix

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Sound Design

•Sound exploration and manipulation in music production and multimedia

Music: Toto-Falling In Beetween (2006)

Herbie Hancock-Imagine Project (2010)

Film: Wall-E, Toys Story, Bourne Ultimatum, Star Wars, Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, Matrix, 9, Transformers, Kingkong

Brian Eno, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Bjork, Paul Simon, etc

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Sound-Film

Area of exploration: recordist, foley, synth, recording studio, mix engineer

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Music Area Mapping

Artist-Performance

Education-School Teaching

Arrangement-Music Composition

Recording/Mix Engineer-Music Production

Management-Music Management

Psychology-Music Therapy

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