Get Into Gere (2018)

Get into Gere is a short film written by Anthony Giambusso and starring Anthony Giambusso and Tierney Malloy. The film is directed by James Leighton & Cody Sorensen.

“A couple preparing to get married keep having the same fight stemming from the guy’s hero-worship obsession with Richard Gere.”

My roles: dialogue editing and sound mixing.

You can watch it here:

Toward live recorded 6DoF audio – Unity and ZM-1 microphone arrays (2018)

6DoF (six-degrees-of-freedom) refers to the possibility of a rigid body (or a representational device of it) to move freely in three transitional and three rotational degrees.

Designing sound for immersive VR 6DoF experiences is usually done by using mono or stereo sound artificially spatialised through software processing the seeks to replicate reverberation, diffusion and other acoustic behaviors.

Now, doing a live sound recording, in a physical acoustic space so it can be used in the context of 6DoF VR is said to be impossible or, at least, very hard.

To try and achieve just that, I used simultaneous recordings made with 9 ZYLIA ZM-1 microphone arrays, placing multiple ambisonics sound files in a scene I built in Unity 3D. The sound sound sources in those recordings are physical objects.

The following video explains the process, step by step:

Related paper presented at the 146th AES Convention in Dublin (2019):
http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=20274

(More information and reference to previous recordings can be found on this blog post from ZYLIA.)

The initial proof-of-concept was recently presented at Game Sound Con in Los Angeles, LA and AES Convention in New York, NY – USA.

Los Angeles, LA and AES Convention in New York, NY – USA.

Ambisonics and binaural audio for 360-degree and ‘tiny planet’ videos (2018)

360-degree video


‘Tiny planet’ video

Here we have 2 videos that share the same source material (audio and video recordings), but that had different post-processing workflows, resulting in:

  • A 360-degree video with 1st order Ambisonics audio, and
  • A ‘tiny planet’ video with binaural audio.

(Actual videos bellow)

I prepared the videos (concept, audio / video recording and editing) for ZYLIA and they were published on their YouTube channel.

The recordings were made at Barigui Park, Curitiba (Brazil). For some more details, you can check this short tutorial blog post.

Farol – movie (2018)

Farol (‘Lighthouse’) is a 23 minute-long Brazilian short drama movie written and directed by Arturo Saboia.

Selected for Cannes short film catalog (2018)

Synopsis: In a distant lighthouse, a couple in crisis can no longer find common ground. Each character has their own perception of the situation.

Credits:

Director of photography Roman LECHAPELIER
Music Eduardo PATRICIO
Editing Manoel VIEIRA
Sound mixing Manoel VIEIRA
Actors Gabriela CARNEIRO DA CUNHA and Antonio SABÓIA
Producer Guarnicê Produções
(Rua São Geraldo, 42 65.065-450 Sao Luis, Brazil)

Doris – movie (2017-2018)

Horror movie by Hayder Hasen. “The film is full of fun and quirky characters with lots of surprises along the way”.
My roles: dialogue editing, sound effects, Foley, original soundtrack and mixing.

Doris is available on Amazon Prime in the UK and USA, and on http://Shorts.tv channels in the USA.

More info on the website here.
IMDb link here.

Here’s the trailer (the trailer’s sound design was not done by me):


© 2017 Darkest Day Films

Rosa dos Ventos – Music album (2013-2017)

Claudio Lima’s 3rd album, Rosa dos Ventos, is an interesting project that brings together regional Maranhao (Brazilian state), pop, classical and electronic music. It’s a song album, with several music personae glued up by Claudio’s beautiful and powerful voice.

A long project, following the singer’s process of composition and repertoire selection.
In 2013, I started working on the album’s initial arrangements, defining its aesthetic direction. I worked on it for almost 4 years as arranger and producer.
In May 2017, I led a group of musicians for the album premiere concert, playing MIDI guitar, drums, pandeiro and synths.

 

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Auê series (2016-2017)

Auê* is a series of 27 2-minute long micro-documentaries. My role: sound mixer.

The movies show the diversity of children’s plays in several public schools in Curitiba-PR (Brazil). The kids host the episodes themselves, demonstrating and talking about their activities. The screenplays are based on research done by the directors Nélio Spréa (from Parabolé) and Otavio Zucon.

The episodes are being offered at no cost to more than 200 public TV channels in Brazil, and should all be eventually available on Parabole’s YouTube channel. This project was approved by ANCINE (Brazilian National Cinema Agency) and it is funded through Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual. The series will debut in February 2017.

* Auê might mean (among other things): fun/agitated activity; uproar/tumult; party.

Here are the episodes of the 1st season:

Project website: https://www.parabole.com.br/info/projetos-culturais-serie-aue

Credits:

Direction, screenplay and production
Nélio Spréa e Otavio Zucon

Photography and coloring
Lucas Rachinski

Sound recording and editing
Victor Chico

Soundtrack
Levi Brandão

Sound mixing
Eduardo Patrício

Animation
Rubert Zilio

Executive production
Rafael Martins e Rafael Galvão

Audio decription and Closed Caption
Grupo Steno

Sign language translation
Letícia Guebur

PhD thesis – Spatial referentiality and openness: a portfolio of environmental based compositions (2016)

This is the result of my practice based research at Queen’s University Belfast (more specifically, at SARC), supervised by Dr. Pedro Rebelo and Dr. Paul Stapleton (2nd supervisor).
Here, you can find the full portfolio commentary in PDF, related posts and video documentation for each piece.

Abstract

Through a creative portfolio and an analytical and critical commentary, this research investigates the use of spatial references in the composition of semi-open environmental sound works. The portfolio explores a number of strategies to make use of spatial references as formal compositional components to enable more intuitive performance/reading experiences. The pieces present a number of electronically mediated scenarios in varied formats; concert, installation and mobile application. Counting on the intuitive way one tries to constantly identify surrounding spaces, each piece uses physical (performance/presentation spaces) and representational devices (illustrations, maps, video projections, spatialised sound etc.) to articulate and delimitate semi-open artistic experiences. Such ambiguous scenarios are enabled by both the unpredictability of elements of each work and the dependence on the subjective interpretations of the agents involved in the process. The creative processes presented here in a descriptive, analytical and critical manner attempt to make an artistic contribution and provide documental material for future reflection about related practices.

Download: commentary_PhD_thesis_Patricio_2016

Related posts: No Chords Attached; Come Across; Lock 1 memories; Sienkiewicz Pipes; Up the Hill; A Blue Bridge

Videos of the portfolio pieces:

No Chords attached (short version)

No Chords attached (full concert)

Come Across (short version)

Come Across (full concert)

Lock 1 Memories

Sienkiewicz Pipes

Up the Hill

A Blue Bridge (short version)

A Blue Bridge (full concert)

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