Mixing Musicals
By Yvonne Gilbert I’ve spent a lot of my career mixing musicals, in London’s West End and on tour. They range from a five piece band and six in the cast with one SFX to a 20 plus cast and … Continue...
View ArticleThe Unique and Spectacular Venues
By Yvonne Gilbert I’ve worked in some wonderful venues some of my favorites have been found spaces or spaces that weren’t supposed to be theaters originally. They do provide their own challenges...
View ArticleFive Lessons from a Career in Sound (so far)
By: Kirsty Gillmore At the end of 2001, I was about to start my professional career in sound. I was 24 with one degree in music and a second degree in arts, a diploma in sound engineering, a bit of …...
View ArticleIt Doesn’t Sound the Way You Think it Does.
By Yvonne Gilbert I first started working on plays about ten years ago at the National Theatre on London’s South Bank. The first show I worked on that made an impression on me was Pillars of the...
View ArticleGetting a Start in the Field While You’re Still in School
By April Tucker I recently met up with fellow SoundGirl Member Ameeta ,who’s in her last semester of college and looking to move to Los Angeles after to pursue sound design. She asked a lot of great...
View ArticleHow to be an Effective Mentor – Part 1
By Kirsty Gillmore Teaching is in the air this month on Soundgirls.org! Right on the heels of Karrie’s excellent blog about Paying it Forward, my blog for this month is about my experience as a mentor...
View ArticleHow to be an Effective Mentor – Part Two
By Kirsty Gillmore This is the second part in a two-part blog about mentoring. You can read part one here. How to be an Effective Mentor – Part One I’ve almost reached the end of my time as a Sound …...
View ArticlePulling Beauty From Restraint
Monthly Contributor Kirsty Gillmore is a sound designer, engineer and voice artist based in the UK. . “Does an opera need sound design?” a lighting designer colleague queried when I told them about my...
View ArticleGhost the Musical at Guildford School of Acting
Yvonne Gilbert is a London based Sound Designer and Engineer with a background in Theater and Musicals. I knew the musical Ghost would be fun to do. There would be loads to play with; the ghost battles...
View ArticlePulling Beauty from Restraint Part Two
Kirsty Gillmore is a Sound designer, engineer and voice artist based in the UK. Sound Design for a Baroque Opera – Part 2 Continue reading →
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