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Live Design: "The Godfather of contemporary Sound Design, Abe Jacob"
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I think it is really nice that LiveDesign has this as an article. With the community being as small as it is, I think it important to pay tribute to those whom have been an influence to us. Its also nice to see some familiar names from the sound list leaving comments such as Charlie Richmond, it just shows how small and close the community is.
Piggy-backing off Alana, again, I think it's cool that this blog and the sound list have crossed paths this way. It's nice to be able to read something like this and recognize names of professionals in the industry and how they've contributed to the things we do now.
I think the comments made by distinguished members of the industry in this article speaks more to the kind of personality it takes to become successful. Every comment was just about how friendly and helpful Abe Jacob had been, as well as accounts of fond memories of the times they had spent together.
I find it a pleasant change that the are even acknowledging an important sound designer in the first place. The young designer award winner at USITT was also a sound designer, so I think that the theatre industry is definitely trying to acknowledge that the area of sound design has really grown over the past few years, and actually will get looked at on the same level as the other areas of theatrical design.
Sound has always been one of the very under-appreciated elements of theatrical design in my mind. it's good to now that it is beginning to make a mark in the industry. The element of sound is crucial to theatre, and as we recently discussed in Jay's class, it is an element that can truly make or brake a show. They power it has subversively on the human mind seems unsurpassed by over theatrical elements.
5 comments:
I think it is really nice that LiveDesign has this as an article. With the community being as small as it is, I think it important to pay tribute to those whom have been an influence to us. Its also nice to see some familiar names from the sound list leaving comments such as Charlie Richmond, it just shows how small and close the community is.
Piggy-backing off Alana, again, I think it's cool that this blog and the sound list have crossed paths this way. It's nice to be able to read something like this and recognize names of professionals in the industry and how they've contributed to the things we do now.
I think the comments made by distinguished members of the industry in this article speaks more to the kind of personality it takes to become successful. Every comment was just about how friendly and helpful Abe Jacob had been, as well as accounts of fond memories of the times they had spent together.
I find it a pleasant change that the are even acknowledging an important sound designer in the first place. The young designer award winner at USITT was also a sound designer, so I think that the theatre industry is definitely trying to acknowledge that the area of sound design has really grown over the past few years, and actually will get looked at on the same level as the other areas of theatrical design.
Sound has always been one of the very under-appreciated elements of theatrical design in my mind. it's good to now that it is beginning to make a mark in the industry. The element of sound is crucial to theatre, and as we recently discussed in Jay's class, it is an element that can truly make or brake a show. They power it has subversively on the human mind seems unsurpassed by over theatrical elements.
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