1. Music, Sounds and Media
Production
Music, Sound Design and Media Production
Jack Arthur Simanjuntak
Twitter: @jackartsonic
April 7th 2011-Akademi Berbagi, Wisma BNI
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Lecturer & head program of Sound Design
Recording, mixing engineer
Sound designer, sound illustrator
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6. Questions
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7. Questions
What is this song about?
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8. Questions
What is this song about?
What emotions are involved?
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9. Questions
What is this song about?
What emotions are involved?
What message is the artist is trying to say?
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11. Prologue
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12. Prologue
•What is music
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13. Prologue
•What is music
The art of combining/organizing sounds to create aesthetics response to the audience
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14. Prologue
•What is music
The art of combining/organizing sounds to create aesthetics response to the audience
•Music Elements
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15. Prologue
•What is music
The art of combining/organizing sounds to create aesthetics response to the audience
•Music Elements
Pitch/frequency, rhythm, intensity/dynamic, timbre/tone
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16. Prologue
•What is music
The art of combining/organizing sounds to create aesthetics response to the audience
•Music Elements
Pitch/frequency, rhythm, intensity/dynamic, timbre/tone
Music is sound and sound is physics
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17. Phytagoras
•Beat
•Phase
•Sound illusion
Using this as elements for SOUND DESIGN
I prefer say that I'm a sound-crafter. My main job is to communicate the musical messages
through creativity and art of recording. I apply architectural philosophy and it helps me a lot. I
see both has similar strategy in techniques and an art. -Jack Simanjuntak-
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18. Sound & Physics
Phytagoras
•Beat
•Phase
•Sound illusion
Using this as elements for SOUND DESIGN
I prefer say that I'm a sound-crafter. My main job is to communicate the musical messages
through creativity and art of recording. I apply architectural philosophy and it helps me a lot. I
see both has similar strategy in techniques and an art. -Jack Simanjuntak-
Thursday, April 7, 2011

19. Music Production Chain
Producer’s Role:
Mainly start from arranging-recording and mixing direction.
There is strong link between arranging-recording-mixing. Thus it looks unreasonable for a producer or recording
engineer to have no mixing experience.
A good producer should be able to supervise arranging, observes recording process and vision in the mix.
Common Production Chain-Recorded Music
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20. Artistic Elements of Sound
Core Mix Aspects
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21. Loudness War
•Misconception: louder means great
•Causes: standard audio for radio-television, instant-music
technology, compressor tools in mixing and mastering process
•Comparison: 1980’s-1990’s-2000’s
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22. Frequency Spectrum
Dull - brittle
Boomy
The Basic Four-Band
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24. Visual Mix
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25. Sound Design
•Sound exploration and manipulation in music production and
multimedia
Music: Toto-Falling In Beetween (2006)
Herbie Hancock-Imagine Project (2010)
Brian Eno, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Bjork, Paul Simon, etc
Film: Wall-E, Toys Story, Bourne Ultimatum, Star Wars, Saving Private Ryan,
Apocalypse Now, Matrix, 9, Transformers, Kingkong
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26. Sound-Film
Area of exploration:
recordist, foley, synth, recording studio, mix engineer
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27. Music Area Mapping
Recording/Mix Engineer-Music Production
Education-School Teaching
Artist-Performance
Arrangement-Music Composition
Management-Music Management
Psychology-Music Therapy
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