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Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

Akash Thakkar

Musique

Business & Entrepreneuriat

Arts

Fréquence : 1 épisode/15j. Total Éps: 100

Akash Thakkar interviews successful audio professionals from every corner of the music and sound industries. From educators, performers, pop stars, game audio professionals, voice actors, composers, sound designers, plug-in designers, audio programmers, and everything in between, we dive deep into the business and mindset skills it takes to ”make it” in the worlds of music and sound.

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Standing Out as an Audio Generalist with Nathan Moody

Épisode 80

mercredi 4 septembre 2024 • Durée 44:14

#74: Today's guest is Nathan Moody, a composer, sound designer, mastering engineer, and interaction designer based out of California. He has worked on an insane variety of projects ranging from The Callisto Protocol, Pentiment, to MLK: Now Is The Time. He has also created sound effects for World War II Battleships, and is even currently working with Skywalker Sound.

In this episode, we talk about the benefits of being a generalist in the world of professional audio, how Nathan started his full-time sound career after the age of 40, how he built his skillset and network over a huge period of time, how to stand out in an industry where audio is becoming more commoditized, and so much more.

Find Nathan Moody here:

Shipscape Website: https://noisejockey.net/main/project/shipscape/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/n4th4nm00dy/?hl=en

Twitter: https://x.com/noisejockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

IMBD: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11708054/

Get info on The Game Industry Professional, my flagship course that teaches you how to make a great living in game audio here: bit.ly/gameindustrypro

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Building Team Audio with Ariel Gross

Épisode 79

mercredi 21 août 2024 • Durée 01:02:22

#73: Today's guest is Ariel Gross, a game audio veteran based out of Texas with over 20 years of experience in the game industry. He started his career on PC and Game Boy Advance games in the late 90s and early 2000s, and eventually ended up as an audio lead—working on titles like Saints Row, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and so many more.

Ariel is now the founder of Team Audio, a team of approximately 30 audio professionals working across dozens of projects in the gaming industry.

In this interview, we dive deep into how Ariel got into game audio long before it was “cool”, working on small projects as a teenager to becoming an audio director on AAA games, how he founded Team Audio in the first place, and so much more.

Find Ariel Gross here:

Twitter: https://x.com/arielgross

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielgross/

Team Audio: https://teamaud.io/about/

Get info on The Game Industry Professional, my flagship course that teaches you how to make a great living in game audio here: bit.ly/gameindustrypro

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Teaching the Art of Foley with Bastian Gerner

Épisode 70

jeudi 11 janvier 2024 • Durée 38:55

#64: Today's guest is Bastian Gerner, a Foley artist based out of Düsseldorf, Germany. He has worked in the film and game industries as a Foley artist for decades and, most recently, worked as a full-time senior Foley artist for Ubisoft. Nowadays, on top of his freelancing business, he also coaches up and coming sound designers on breaking into the film and game industry, as well as how to record high quality using a home setup.

In this episode, we talk about Bastian's career and how he started with Foley in the first place, how he teaches sound designers the skills they need to succeed, why he decided to freelance instead of being a full-time employee forever, and so much more.

Find Bastian Gerner here:

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5588918/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_foley_teacher/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCES-9zV4CV9_BIGrqczAwLA

And if you're interested in making music and sound for games, I have a newsletter and free courses that will get you started, and help you find paying work in games. Just go to http://www.bit.ly/soundbizpod

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Creating a Niche of Your Own with Myuu

Épisode 69

mercredi 20 décembre 2023 • Durée 33:12

#63: Today's guest is Nicolas Gasparini, also known as Myuu. Nicolas is a long-time pianist and composer who's been uploading dark piano horror music since 2006 and has built a huge following in that time with over 300,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, and another 300,000 subscribers on YouTube. He's also worked on short films and video games and is currently working on the upcoming horror game Post Trauma.

In this episode we talk about finding your niche as a composer and how important it is to dive deep into your interests. We also talk about how Nicolas started writing horror music in the first place, why he releases music for free, and what up and coming composers can do to get out there, and so much more.

Find Myuu here:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Myuu

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5sP3ci0jwrXUBo76t8pGTF?si=sVFG_WI_TVuUVIUYudUwhQ

Website: https://www.thedarkpiano.com/bio

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myuusic/

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How to Move to LA (And Succeed) with Joy Ngiaw

Épisode 68

mercredi 6 décembre 2023 • Durée 36:55

#62: Today's guest is Joy Ngiaw, an award-winning composer based in Los Angeles. Joy has worked on a ton of projects including the animated short Blush, Disney's experimental short series Short Circuit, Cobra Kai, What Remains of Edith Finch, and many others.

In this episode, we talk about how she grew up in rural Malaysia, made her way to Shanghai, China, and eventually Boston to study at the Berklee College of Music. We also talk about how she got into composition from her early days as a classical pianist, how her first gigs came about, and much more.

Find Joy Ngiaw here:

Website: https://www.joyngiaw.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyngiaw/

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7267486/?ref_=rvi_nm

Twitter: https://twitter.com/joyngiaw

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How to Quickly Break In to the Game Industry with ZW Buckley

Épisode 67

mercredi 22 novembre 2023 • Durée 49:30

#61: Today's guest is ZW Buckley, a musician, producer, and composer based in Seattle writing in a broad variety of genres and styles for a ton of different projects. His work includes writing a pop soundtrack for Barbie: You Can Be A Fashion Designer VR, teaching music production at Point Blank Music School and running the game audio co-op, Plant Based Audio.

In this episode, ZW and I talk about how to join and be a part of the game dev community quickly, how to find your first projects, how to learn and practice the skill of music production, getting over the fear of jumping in and becoming a full-time artist, and so much more.

Find ZW Buckley here:

Website: https://www.zwbuckley.com/

Newsletter: https://zwbuckley.substack.com/

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Releasing Hit Music (Without a Record Label) with TheFatRat

Épisode 66

mercredi 25 octobre 2023 • Durée 41:43

#60: Today's guest is Christian Büttner A.K.A. TheFatRat, who is a producer, DJ, and musician based mainly out of Germany. Chris has millions of listeners from all over the world, and has accumulated billions of plays so far. He did this without a major record label, all while giving his music away for free.

In this episode, we talk about how he started in the world of classical music and transitioned into electronic music much later. We also go into how he taught himself electric music production skills, why he releases basically all of his music for free and lets people use his music, why he steers artists away from signing with major labels, and much more.

Find TheFatRat here:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa_UMppcMsHIzb5LDx1u9zQ

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3OKg7YbOIatODzkRIbLJR4

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefatratofficial/

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From Creating Metal Music to Writing for Angry Birds with Henri Sorvali

Épisode 65

mercredi 11 octobre 2023 • Durée 42:07

#59: Today's guest is Henri Sorvali, a musician and composer based in Finland. He started off his career has a classical and jazz pianist who ended up starting two successful Finnish black metal bands, Moonsorrow and Finntroll. He is also a full-time game composer working in-house at Rovio Entertainment, the company most famously known for The Angry Birds games.

In this episode, we talk about how why Henri stopped his life of being a touring musician in front of thousands of screaming fans to instead focus on video game composition, how he ended up in the world of metal music, and how he made the transition from heavy metal music to making lighter-hearted video game music, and much more.

Find Henri Sorvali here:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/trollhornmusic

Website: http://www.trollhorn.com/

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Creating Sound Particles with Nuno Fonseca

Épisode 64

mercredi 27 septembre 2023 • Durée 45:27

#58: Today's guest is Nuno Fonseca, founder of the company Sound Particles. Sound Particles started off their journey by making a piece of software with the same name, which allows anyone to create immersive 3D audio. Since their founding, Sound Particles has gone on to be used in countless movies, TV shows, and video games such as Oppenheimer, Assassin's Creed Origins, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, and many others.

In this episode, we talk about how Nuno got started in the world of creating audio software, what it was like promoting Sound Particles in the beginning, what he believes the future of audio is, and much more.

Find Nuno Fonseca and Sound Particles here:

Website: https://soundparticles.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soundparticles/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoundParticles

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@sound.particles

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From Engineer to Voice Actor with Katherine Tole

Épisode 63

mercredi 13 septembre 2023 • Durée 39:23

#57: Today's guest is Katherine Tole, a voice actor and dialogue editor based in Seattle. She's a dialogue editor at Jackbox Games and is working on the soon-to-be released Jackbox Party Pack 10. She's also teaching courses on how to get jobs as a voice actor, especially through the voiceover marketplace Voice123. She's currently working on some exciting top-secret projects as well.

In this episode, we talk about how Katherine transitioned from being a full-time engineer in Silicon Valley to becoming a voice actor, how she got her first gigs in the world of voiceover, how to stand out in a sea of thousands of other voice actors, and much more.

Find Katherine Tole here:

Website: https://katherinetole.com/

Video Game Audio Collective: https://plantbasedaud.io/

Jackbox Games: https://www.jackboxgames.com/

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