Sound Design

Offered in:

SAVANNAH

Savannah

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  Robin Beauchamp
  Savannah
  B.Mus., Lawrence University; M.Ed., Pennsylvania State University; Ed.S., Georgia Southern University.
  
  
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  Peter Damski
  Savannah
  B.S., University of Florida.
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  Peter Damski received a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Production from the University of Florida in 1978. He moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to pursue a career as a recording engineer, working at prominent studios including The Record Plant and Larrabee Studios. In 1981, Damski took a position working at Vidtronics, one of the premier post houses in the early 1980s. Driven by the desire to work outside the confines of a mix stage, he transitioned into film and television production in 1982. For the next 25 years Damski worked on sitcoms as a production mixer. His credits include "Will & Grace," "Mad About You," "My Wife and Kids" and "Hannah Montana." Prior to SCAD, Damski was a faculty member at Moorpark College in Moorpark, Calif., where he taught audio production and advanced audio production.
  
  Awards:
  

  • Seven-time Prime Time Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Sound Mixing, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
  • Two-time Prime Time Emmy Award winner, Outstanding Sound Mixing, "Mad About You," 1994-95
  • MPSE's Golden Reel Award nominee for work on "Mad About You," 1994

  Memberships:
  

  • Secretary of the Cinema Audio Society, 2007-present
  • Editor of the CAS Quarterly, the Official Journal of the Cinema Audio Society, 2005-present
  • Academy of Television Arts and Sciences: Peer Group Executive Committee, Sound Branch, 2004-07

  Courses:
  

  • Introduction to Sound Design
  • Location Sound

  
  
  
  
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  Stephen LeGrand
  Savannah
  B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
  
  
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  Robert Miller
  Savannah
  B.F.A., Davidson College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts.
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  Robert E. Miller began his career at the California Institute of the Arts, where he served as assistant to Morton Subotnick and as re-recording engineer for the film department. He later toured with the Merce Cunningham dance company, producing sound designs in association with John c\Cage; recorded and produced "Rainforest," a CD and historical retrospective of the composition by David Tudor; served as audio production supervisor for the department of theater, film and television at UCLA; and worked as sound design supervisor for the Yale University School of Drama and Repertory Theater.
  

  
  
  
  
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  Andre Ruschkowski
  Savannah
  M.A., Ph.D., Humbolt University, Berlin.
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  Andre Ruschkowski, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized electro-acoustic composer and audiovisual artist. He joined SCAD from the University Mozarteum Salzburg in Austria, where he was a professor of electronic and computer music. He earned a doctorate in musicology from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and worked at the University of Cologne, Technical University Berlin and the Academy of Sciences Berlin. Ruschkowski also has written a book, "Electronic Sounds and Musical Discoverings," which is the standard text for teaching electronic music at German-speaking universities.
  
  Awards:
  

  • Sonic Circuits Award of the American Composers Association, Minneapolis/St. Paul
  • Prize of the City of Varese at the International Competition for Electroacoustic Music "Luigi Russolo," Varese (Italy)
  • Award of the Competition of Radio Art, SACEM Paris (France)
  • First Prize Competition for Computer Music, Braunschweig (Germany)

  Memberships:
  

  • International Computer Music Association
  • Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States
  • Electronic Music Foundation
  • German Society for Electroacoustic Music

  Courses:
  

  • Sound Art
  • Audiovisual Synthesis
  • Modular Synthesis and Audio Programming
  • Sound Design Resources and Analysis
  • Introduction to Sound Design

  
  
  
  
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  John Sisti
  Savannah
  State University of New York.
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  John Sisti began his career at A&M records, where he worked with artists such as George Harrison, the Captain and Tenille, Hoyt Axton and Barbra Streisand, as well as with engineers and producers including Phil Ramone, Henry Louis, Phil Specter and Jeff Barry. He taught at the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College and also held a three-year position at the Berklee School of Music's music production and engineering department. In addition, he worked in the first digital editing facilities at Pacific Sound Services, and later moved to Columbia Pictures/Sony Entertainment.
  
  Awards:
  

  • Two Emmy Awards, Best Sound, "Mad About You" (sound supervisor)
  • Golden Reel nomination, Best Sound Editing, "Mad About You" (sound supervisor)
  • Oscars, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound, "Bram Stoker's Dracula"
  • Golden Reel nomination, Best ADR Editing, "Bram Stoker's Dracula"

  
  
  
  
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  David Stone
  Savannah
  B.F.A., Cornell University.
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  David Stone is a supervising sound editor and Hollywood film and television veteran. His dialogue editor skills have surfaced in films such as "I Am David," "Dolores Claiborne," "Ocean's 11" and "Ocean's 12." Sound effects were his focus on many action movies including "Speed," "Gremlins," "Predator" and "Die Hard." Stone supervised the sound editing for "Beauty and the Beast," "City Slickers 2," "Batman Returns," "Edward Scissorhands," "Gremlins 2" and "Malice," among approximately100 feature films. He is a five-time Motion Picture Sound Editors' Golden Reel Award winner for Best Sound Editing, and won the 1992 Academy Award for best Sound Effects Editing for his supervising work on "Bram Stoker's Dracula." He began his animation career at Hanna-Barbera, where he was an animation in-betweener, a sound editor and writer for "The Fred and Barney Show." Presently, Stone enjoys a teaching career in sound design for film students, formerly at DePaul University, and now at SCAD. A Cornell University graduate in fine arts, Stone believes that sound is half of every movie.
  
  Awards:
  

  • Five-time MPSE Golden Reel Award winner as Supervisor and Sound Editor; also garnered several nominations
  • Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing, 1992

  Memberships:
  

  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Sound Branch
  • Motion Picture Sound Editors, former vice president
  • Local 700, Motion Picture Editors' Guild
  • Local 839, The Animation Guild (formerly Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists)

  Publications:
  

  • Editor, Moviesound Newsletter, 1989-1993
  • Presentation and panel, Iowa State University, 2000
  • Motion Picture Sound scholarship and practitioners' conference: Presentation and panel, Business College Nowy Sanc, Poland 2005: International conference on Games development and education
  • Presentation and panel, "Now Hear This, An Evening on Animation Sound": Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, August 2008
  • "The Foley Grail," illustrator/editor for DVD documentary
    short (Book by Vanessa T. Ament, Focal Press, February 2009)

  
  
  
  

Atlanta

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  James Arnold
  Atlanta
  B.F.A, California State University - Long Beach; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts.