AES South: Sound Design for ‘A Feral World’ – Leslie Gaston-Bird
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AES South of England Group
Evening Meeting
Thursday 29th November, 2018. 6pm refreshments for 6:30 start.
Palmerston Lecture Theatre, The Spark Building
Solent University, Southampton.
Sound Design for ‘A Feral World’ – Leslie Gaston-Bird, Sound Supervisor
A Feral World” is a post-apocalyptic tale of survival featuring a young, orphaned boy and his friendship with a woman who’s desperate to find her missing daughter. Filmed over four years, we watch the boy mature into a teenager. Sound supervisor Leslie Gaston-Bird (AMPS, MPSE) gives an overview of creating and managing audio assets for the 5.1 mix for this feature, which is scheduled to debut next year.
Leslie Gaston-Bird Leslie is a sound engineer with over 30 years of experience in film, video, music, and radio. She works at Mix Messiah Productions, based in Brighton and London. She is also Vice President for the Audio Engineering Society's Western Region (USA & Canada). Leslie is a former Associate Professor of Recording Arts at the University of Colorado Denver, where from 2013-2015 she served as Chair of the Department of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies.
While spaces are not guaranteed, parking is available onsite for this meeting – you can access the university car park from St Andrews Road, Southampton. The Palmerston Lecture theatre is on floor 0 of the Spark Building, which is accessible from East Park Terrace. We are close to city centre car parks, and also 10 minutes walk from Southampton Central Station.
