Rashad Becker
Mastering Engineer, Clunk (Berlin, Germany)
April 13, 2016 | 11:00 – 13:00 | on-site
Rashad is a mastering engineer based in Berlin, who mainly engages with electronic music mastering for vinyl. At the time of Audio Forum 2015, his work amounted to around 1200 pieces of electronic music that he was wrapping up at that very moment.
Although employed at the Basic Channel’s Dubplates & Mastering studio, Rashad established his own studio in Kreuzberg under the name „Clunk“ which was the backbone, initial spark for the PAN music publishing in 2013 with the album „Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. 1“.
Becky Sullivan
Supervising Sound Editor and ADR Editor, Universal Studios (Orlando, FL)
December 12, 2016 | 19:00 – 21:30 | online
Supervising Sound Editor (Supervising Sound Editor) Becky Sullivan, was nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Achievement in Sound Editing category for „Unbroken“ in 2014. With that, Becky became the fifth woman ever nominated for an Oscar in the Sound Editing category! In addition to these nominations, she won a BAFTA award for her work on the film „The Fugitive“.
She currently leads the sound editing division of the film production giant Universal Studios and also holds the Supervising Sound Editor role at Sony Pictures Studios.
She entered the world of sound focused on ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement) and soon became an expert in that field, working on films such as „RoboCop“ and „The Fugitive“.
As a sound editing supervisor, she was involved working on sound for major Hollywood titles: Ghostbusters, The Big Short, Fifty Shades of Grey.
Ljubinko Gordić
Sound Designer and Author, RTS (Belgrade)
December 13, 2016 | 12:00 – 14:00 | on-site
Ljubinko completed his Bachelor studies in Sound Recording and Design at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in 2007. He spent most of his career working as a sound designer at RTS (Radio-television of Serbia), mastering the fine art of television sound recording for live events. These are, to the greatest extent, recordings and broadcasts of sports, musical and overall live events.
Together with his colleague Zdravko Maljković, he lead the workshop “Stereophonic music recording” at Audio Forum 2016. On that occasion, Ljubinko and Zdravko also presented the book they co-authored, entitled “Stereophony – theory and practice”. On one hand, the book is a comprehensive guidebook for the audience and a manual on the other – about professional challenges that await the readers, with the aim of bringing this job closer to new generations.
Since 2017, Ljubinko has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Contemporary Arts in Belgrade, teaching the following subjects: Stereophonics and sound image creation, Sound Design – Media, Art music post-production.
Zdravko Maljković
Sound Designer and Author, RTS (Belgrade)
December 13, 2016 | 12:00 – 14:00 | on-site
Zdravko Maljković got his Batchelor’s degree in Sound Recording and Design at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in 2009, and in the meantime maintained the continuity of his career as a sound designer at RTS (Radio-television of Serbia), in the field of live programming. These are, to the greatest extent, recordings and broadcasts of musical and stage works and sports events.
Together with his colleague Ljubinko Gordić, he lead the workshop ““Stereophonic music recording” at Audio Forum 2016. On that occasion, Zdravko and Ljubinko also presented the book they co-authored, entitled “Stereophony – theory and practice”. On one hand, the book is a comprehensive guidebook for the audience and a manual on the other – about professional challenges that await the readers, with the aim of bringing this job closer to new generations.
Since 2017, Zdravko has been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Contemporary Arts in Belgrade, where he teaches the following subjects: Sound recording, Music recording – solo instruments, Music recording – small ensembles.
Alan Meyerson
Film Score Re-recording Mixer, Remote Control Productions (Santa Monica, CA)
December 13, 2016 | 19:00 – 21:30 | online
He is one of the most important film score mixers of the modern era. With more than 200 films under his belt and more than 20 years of film music experience, Meyerson is an endless source of great insights and advice.
Before entering the film industry, Meyerson also had a music career! As a popular music mixer, he worked in the most important New York studios, such as the Hit Factory, mixing world famous albums for stars such as Bob Dylan, Diana Ross, Bryan Ferry, New Order.
Alan’s name is most often associated with the currently most sought-after film composer in Hollywood – (Hans Zimmer), with whom he has been collaborating since the beginning of his career in film.
Notable film credits: Interstellar, Man of Steel, Iron Man, The Pirates of the Caribbean, Sherlock Holmes, A Game of Shadows, Inception, The Dark Knight, Kung-Fu Panda, Despicable Me, The Last Samurai, Gladiator.
Scott Gershin
Supervisor Sound Editor
December 15, 2016 | 19:00 – 21:30 | online
This British-American Supervising Sound Editor’s impressive 30-year career covers all areas of sound design in audio-visual media.
Scott Gershin won 9 Golden Reel Awards for outstanding contributions to sound editing. Then, he is the winner of the biggest BAFTA award for the best sound in film, and plethora of nominations and other awards such as Emmy and TEC. This speaks volumes of Scott’s professional work.
He worked on films like Nightcrawler, The Book of Life, Riddick, Pacific Rim, Star Trek, Shrek, American Beauty.
Scott’s portfolio is particularly notable for his work on sound design for the following video games: Doom 2016, Epic Mickey, Gears of War, Resident Evil, Fable.
Scott leads a team at Technicolor, a global technology leader in multimedia and entertainment, responsible for audio in emerging technologies, with a special emphasis on audio for VR.