European and American Points of Hearing:

ArE THEy DiffErEnT?

28-30 June 2013The Sound deSign ConferenCe

The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music,

Inter-University Multimedia Program, Chair of Sound Egineering

with partners:

The Academy of Fine Arts, Polish Filmmakers Association, Documentary and Feature Film Production Company

Project co-financed by the European Union from the European Social Fundunder the Operational Program Human Capital

www.medialarts.pl

RichaRd King

Richard King was born in Tampa, Florida and attended the University of South Florida, graduating with a BFA in painting and film. Since 1985 he has worked in film sound design. He has been fortunate to have worked with such directors as Nicolas Roeg, M. Night Shyamalan, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, William Friedkin, Peter Weir, Steven Spielberg, and Christopher Nolan.He is the recipient of three Academy Awards, two Baftas, and four MPSE awards for best sound editing.He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

Contact:Joanna Napieralska napieralska@medialarts.pl +48601709769, +48728876376Joanna Kamińska kaminska@medialarts.pl +48728879679Aleksandra Trzeciak biuro@medialarts.pl +48728876176

BRuno TaRRièRe

Bruno Tarrière, born in 1960, has filled various positions in the field of sound. He was a percussionist in a jazz band before studying electro-accustic music at the GRM (Groupe de recherche musicale) with the professors Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel in 1979. From 1980 to 1983 he studied sound engineering at INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts et Spectacles) in Brussels.

Bruno Tarrière has explored all fields of audio when working on feature films, ranging from sound recording on the set, sound design, recording foley and as sound re-recording mixer. He is working with renowned directors of feature films all over the world. His work has been awarded on several occasions, such as the César for Best Sound for The Concert by Radu Mihaileanu, an award he already received ten years ago for Jeanne d’Arc by Luc Besson. He also received the Golden Reel award for Jeanne d’Arc and Leon The Professional by Luc Besson.

Bruno Tarrière loves to share his technical and artistic experience with students such as the l’Ecole de Cinema Parisienne ESRA et l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels (ESAVE) de Marrakech.

The range of directors he worked with includes: Emir Kusturica, Walter Salles, Jiang Wen, Oliver Stones, Luc Besson, Radu Mihaileanu, Bruno Barreto, Thierry Knauff, Sergei Bodro.

LaRRy SideR

Larry Sider is a sound designer and film editor who has worked for thirty years in documentary, animation and fiction. Most recently, he created soundtracks for Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Ruins, the Quay Brothers’ The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, and Dave McKean’s animated feature, Mirrormask. Past projects include Patrick Keiller’s London and Robinson in Space and Street of Crocodiles and Institute Benjamenta by the Quays. From 2000-2003, he consulted on LISTEN, an EU-funded research project devising new software to create audio-augmented environments in gallery and museum spaces. He has taught at numerous schools including the Royal College of Art, IFS (Köln), ENSATT (Lyon), European Film College (Ebeltoft), Huston School of Film & Digital Media (Galway), California Institute of the Arts, Maurits Binger Institute and Bournemouth Media School. He was previously Head of Editing, Sound and Music at the National Film and Television School (UK) and is now co-editor of The New Soundtrack journal. He is currently part of a corsortium creating a new Joint-European MA for Sound in Audiovision (EMAS) witch will begin in September 2014.Since 1998, Sider has promoted the profile of sound in screen production as Director of the biennial symposium, the School of Sound, an international four-day event exploring the use of sound in film, media and the arts. At the core of the SOS is the integration of theory with practice, and art with entertainment. From these meetings has come the book, Soundscape: The School of Sound Lectures 1998-2001. www.schoolofsound.co.uk

JöRg LenSing

Jörg Lensing, born in 1960 in Dusseldorf/Germany. In 1981 - 87 studies of composition at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen/Germany. In 1982 foundation of the concert row NEUE TÖNE (New Tones) which put together a total of 41 concerts with contemporary music till 1987. In 1983 foundation of the ensemble for electronic music Kunst-Stoff (Art Material); a first music theatre composition for a dancer’s pair (selected for the world music days in 1987 in Frankfurt). 1986 university award of the Folkwang University of Arts. 1987 exams composition. In 1987 - 89 postgraduate studies „new music theatre“ with Mauricio Kagel at the University of Music in Cologne/Germany. In 1987 foundation of the THEATER DER KLÄNGE (Theatre of the Sounds) in Dusseldorf. Since 1987 directorial activity and choreography, as well as composition of incidental music for almost all of the 20 productions till this day of the theatre of the sounds and some commissioned works of other theatres. Composition of numerous stage music and soundtracks. Since 1990 production of film compositions and full sound design for all films of the German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck. In 1992 guest lecturer for theatrical direction at the Bauhaus Dessau. Since 1996 professor for “sound creation” at the University of Applied Scieneces and Arts in Dortmund. Realisation of own films and DVD-projects, as well as from three audio books since 1999. In 2000 sound design assistance and Musicediting for the double TV-film The Tunnel in the Sound Department of the Film Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam/Germany. Talks and seminars to film-sound in the HfbK Dresden, the Folkwang University of Arts, Media Cologne, College of Offenburg, German sound engineer’s conferences and IFS Cologne. Article to film-sound and new music theatre in professional magazines and specialist books. The German book Sound Design - Sound Montage - Soundtrack Composition was published in 2006 (2nd edition in 2009). Translation in German and publication of the book Audio-Vision from Michel Chion in 2012.www.film-sound-design.dewww.theater-der-klaenge.de

niKodem WołK-łanieWSKi

Nikodem Wołk Łaniewski, born in 1944. The author of film sound. Graduated from the Department of Sound Engineering of the PWSM Warsaw (now the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music - UMFC), Professor at the Chair of Sound Engineering. Being the soundtrack author of dozens of feature films, documentaries, many film etudes, PKF (Polish Film Chronicle) editions, TV plays, he cooperated with the variety of prominent directors, taking part in the process of the Polish film history formation. His credits include: A Short Film About Love and 5 films of the cycle The Decalogue by K.Kieślowski, Pan Tadeusz by A.Wajda, The War of the Worlds - Next Century by P. Szulkin, The Valley of Issa by T.Konwicki, My Nikifor and Saviour’s Square by K.Krauze, Hallo, Szpicbródka! by J.Rzeszewski, Janosik by J.Passendorfer, Co mi zrobisz, jak mnie złapiesz by S.Bareja. The multiple Polish Film Academy nominee, triple winner.

Since 1971 a lecturer at the Sound Engineering Department, UMFC. Former Head of the Chair of Sound Engineering.

28.06.2013 (Friday)

Venue: WFdiFChełmska 21, 00-724 Warszawa

11.00-17.45 Mixing Stage 11.00-17.45 Screening Room B

11:00-12.30 Seminar Part OneHollywood Sound Design: designing sound according to the Hollywood film sound aesthetics based on Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, dir. Peter Weir Tutor: RichaRd King

Part OneScreening the excerpts of the films: Leon the Professional, dir. Luc Besson; Alexander, dir. Oliver Stone; U R There, dir. David Verbeek; Araf, dir. Yesim Ustaoglu; Bamako, dir. Abder-rahmane Sissako

12.30-13.30 Break Break

13.30-15.00 Seminar Part TwoEuropean Sound Design: designing sound according to the European sound aesthetics based on Le Passé, dir. Ashgar Farhadi; Araf, dir. Yesim Ustaoglu; Leon the Profes-sional, dir. Luc Besson; Alexander, dir. Olivier Stone; Joan of Arc, dir. Luc BessonTutor: BRuno TaRRièRe

Part TwoScreening the excerpts of the films: The Way Back, dir. Peter Weir; Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, dir Peter Weir; War of the Worlds, dir. Steven Spielberg

15.00-15.30 Coffee break Coffee break

15.30-17.45 Seminar part ThreeDesigning a creative role of sound in the narrative and emotional aspects of film on the basis of the participants’ examples Tutors: BRuno TaRRièRe, RichaRd King

Part ThreeScreening the excerpts of the films: Inception, dir. Christopher Nolan; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, dir. Andrew Dominic; The White Ribbon, dir. Michael Haneke

29.06.2013 (Saturday)

Venue: umFc Karol Szymanowski auditoriumOkólnik 2, 00-368 Warszawa

12.00-19.00

12:00-13.30 LaRRy SideRSound Changes the Image: The relationships between sound, editing, music, recording and story Part One

13.30-14.30 Break

14.30-16.00 LaRRy SideRSound Changes the Image: The relationships between sound, editing, music, recording and story Part Two

16.15-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.15 Seminar Part OneWriting Script for Sound – group exerciseTutor: LaRRy SideR

17.15-17.30 Coffee and technical break

17.30-19.00 Seminar Part TwoWriting Script for Sound – group exerciseTutor: LaRRy SideR

Notes: • Coffee breaks/coctail party will take place in the foyer. Lunch will be on sale from the bar or restaurant.• The conference language is English

30.06.2013 (Sunday)

Venue: The Praha cinema Jagiellońska 26, 03-719 Warszawa

11.00-19.30

11.00-11.05 Welcome

11.05-11.50 Prof. JoeRg LenSingSound Design Definitions vice German & Austrian Point of Hearing

12.00-13.00 BRuno TaRRieRe and LaRRy SideR presentan European point of hearing basing on B.Tarriere’s works

13.00–14.00 Break

14.00-14.30 Prof. niKodem WołK-łanieWSKiPolish Point of Hearing

14.40–15.50 RichaRd King and LaRRy SideR present an American point of hearing basing on R. King’s works

15.50–16.20 Coffee break

16.20-17.30 Discussion and questions from the audience with all the presenters

17.30-19.30 Cocktail party