Making Waves: The Art of Sound Design
a free workshop brought to you by the TACTICS Green Room Series
Local sound design fixtures Ali Berkok and Jason Sonier are excited to share their experience and advice on aspects of the role of sound and especially sound design in theatrical production, from conception to execution. This workshop will visit such topics as sound hardware and software, script analysis, collaboration with the creative and technical team members, best practices for tech week, and will also touch on working with microphones, mixers, and sound reinforcement systems for live theatre. In addition to addressing the sound needs and solutions for a hypothetical production, there will be time for general discussion and questions.
This workshop is tailored towards curious, emerging and experienced designers alike. To register sign up below!
If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at info@tacticsottawa.com.
Meet your Instructors
Jason Sonier (he/him) is a musician, sound designer, audio engineer, technical production technician and arts administrator. An avid multi-instrumentalist, his training and performance experience includes various woodwinds (including concert flute, celtic flute, celtic whistle, etc), various hand percussion instruments (including West African djembe, Egyptian-style darabouka, Irish bodhran, etc), bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lapsteel, voice and cello for recordings, concerts, film, dance and theatre. He has a diploma in applied audio recording and 25 years of experience with live sound, lighting, projection and other technical production for music, dance and theatre, including sound for local productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rocky Horror Show, Romantic Poetry and for the Canadian touring productions of Menopause the Musical I and II. In addition to extensive collaboration and freelance work, he has also served at various points as Equipment Manager at the Digital Arts Resource Centre, as Technical Director at SAW Gallery/Club SAW and A Company of Fools and as Special Projects Manager at Propeller Dance. He loves helping and collaborating with others with their creative projects and has given workshops on various elements of music, performance and audio.
Ali Berkok (he/him) is a pianist, composer and sound designer. Among his credits are Unsafe (Canadian Stage), The Unplugging (GCTC), and Shorelines (TACTICS). He has produced six albums as a leader, including two for electroacoustic outfit Aurochs, and a solo piano album, Never Get Lost for Long, which features reinvented jazz standards such as “Cheek to Cheek,” and Coltrane's “Giant Steps,” as well as spontaneously extemporized compositions. Chief amongst his music research interests is polytemporality, the simultaneous presence of two or more asynchronous rhythmic layers. Berkok holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Toronto.