Sound Mixing

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Eric SCHILLING
Recording Engineer
Broadcast Music Mixer

In 1973 Eric began his audio career working in radio working on live remote music broadcasts in the San Francisco bay area. This early work in broadcasting gave a solid foundation in audio and experience in working in the time deadlines involved in live broadcast.
In 1976 Eric began working as a recording engineer working with artists such as Fleetwood Mac, Madonna, Natalie Cole, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Estefan, Shakira, Ricky Martin, Julio Iglesias, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea.
In 1986 Eric began working as a Live Music Event broadcast and DVD music mixer. His projects include The Grammy Awards, Latin Grammy Awards, Billboard Music Awards, Latin Billboard Music Awards, MTV VMA Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and IHeart shows.
Eric serves as audio consultant to the Grammy awards show where he advises on audio infrastructure and techniques in both stereo and surround mixing for the show. He has seen the transition from analog audio to the digital audio equipment as an early adopter of digital technology.
Other acts include Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Beyonce, Jay Z, Bruno Mars, Adele, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, John Legend, Keith Urban, Bruno Mars, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, Green Day, Kayne West, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Nicki Manaj, Lil Wayne, Prince, Pink, Justin Bieber, Barbra Streisand.
Eric has won 4 Grammy awards, 16 Latin Grammy awards and 6 prime time Emmy awards.

02 - Course Information

• Broadcast infrastructure Overview
• Post Production Overview
• Hand on
  1. Live Broadcast mixing (Stereo & Surround), Grammys, Latin Grammys, Billboard Awards
  2. Post Produced shows released on DVD and Broadcast. Madonna, Gloria Estefan
  3. Live Album, Shakira MTV
• Q&A

Music Production

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Jeff BOVA
Producer

With hundreds of platinum and gold selling records to his name, Jeff Bova is a Grammy Award-winning producer and musician. In addition to keyboards, he is an esteemed synthesist, programmer, arranger, composer, sound designer, editor, and mixer.
During a career spanning over 40 years, Jeff toured as a member of Herbie Hancock’s Rockit Band and has contributed to hundreds of recordings by significant mainstream artists like Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Luther Vandross, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Robert Palmer, Billy Joel, The Back Street Boys, The Bee Gees, Cher, Meat Loaf, Cyndi Lauper, Ryuichi Sakamoto and many more.
Jeff won his Grammy “Album of the Year” as a producer for Celine Dion’s Falling Into You. His film work includes music for The Mask of Zorro, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Disney’s Tinkerbell, and Dennis Hopper’s Colors.
In addition to producing new artists, Jeff has been Arranger and orchestrator for George Benson and Iron Maiden, and a co-writer of Jolin Tsai’s Single “Lady In Red.

02 - Course Information

• From Demo to Master - An evaluation of song demos and their release versions by such artists as Katy Perry, Celine Dion, Jolin Tsai and others that Jeff Bova has collaborated.
• Mission Impossible - Lo and Hi tech solutions in todays production process. Iron Maiden's 18 minute Epic “Empire of the Clouds,” Pre-production for major Hollywood Film projects. and more.
• Creative Leadership - Mindset and leadership for enhanced collaboration and teamwork.
• Q & A

Anime Score

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Shinkichi MITSUMUNE
Composer

Shinkichi Mitsumune was born in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka on October 8, 1963 and graduated from Rikkyo University, College of Economics. From the young age of four, he attended the Yamaha Music School and received acoustic training. He started playing the electronic organ at the age of 10 and received tuition from Koichi Oki - a jazz organist while still in junior high school. While at university, he started playing the keyboard for professional bands following which he joined the band of jazz vocalist, Marlene, and toured various jazz festivals across Japan for about two years.
In 1995, he worked on his first anime soundtrack ”Nurse Angel Ririka SOS” in which the profound, high-quality and soothing composition performed with a full orchestra garnered high acclaim. This performance was followed by a string of hit anime soundtracks including “Revolutionary Girl Utena” (1997), “Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters” (2000-2004), The series “Rozen Maiden” (2004-2013), “Negima! : Magister Negi Magi” (2005), The Series “Zero no Tsukaima” (2006-2012) and “Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS” (2017-)

02 - Course Information

• Anime Score Overview
• Difference between Anime and Drama Score
• Production Flow of Scoring
• Case Studies
  1. Programming and Dubbing of Acoustic Instruments
  2. Variations of Comical and Battle tunes
  3. Melodious and Non-melodious tunes
  4. Variations on the Same Character’s Theme
• Q & A