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Sound Designer Spotlight: Luca Tomassini (Jontom)

Hey Jontom! Thanks for this interview with us. First of all, you are known as Ukulele Master. How did this happen, when did you start playing Ukulele to become a master of it? I started to play the uke about 6 or 7 years ago… Honestly, I can’t exactly remember! I guess I took a different approach to the instrument because unlike many others fascinated by the easiness and portability, I was charmed by the challenge behind four strings and two octaves. After having watched Jake Shimabukuro performing his rendition of “While my guitar gently weeps” I felt the magic behind this instrument and so, that’s how […] Read more »

Sound Designer Spotlight: Christophe Espern

Can you tell us a little bit about your background. Where are you from and how did you end up creating music? I live in Brittany in France. I studied audiovisual production, film, design and advertising. At the same time I started to learn music on a computer by myself. I started writing songs and playing guitar, and soon I started a pop rock band in which I was the singer and songwriter. Little by little I’ve learned and started composing music for student film projects and short films. I began to realize what kind of sounds work in motion pictures. What kind […] Read more »

In Reality It’s Simple: Publishing & Blanket Licenses

Publishing and licensing can be tricky due to the lack of transparency and simplicity. Despite these features they can be crucial to your business it’s understandable they might be something you’ve never really gotten a hold of. That’s why in this blog post we will go through the awesomeness behind Audiodraft Publishing and Audiodraft Blankets. Our aim at Audiodraft is to bring custom sound and music available for every production no matter the budget or the schedule. It’s a big promise but this is actually possible through Audiodraft Blanket. With a fixed pricing you don’t need to think about the […] Read more »

Agency Studio Productions For Composers & Sound Designers

To perfect our way of closing deals, we’ve made some tweaks on the Agency Studio platforms. Agency Studios are pro-accounts for our clients to access our top tier talent. We have made a few improvements on the Agency Studio productions to make sure we are providing efficient tools to pitch for the briefs we are lucky to receive from advertising agencies and production companies around the globe. In sound designers’ and composers’ perspective, here’s what’s new: 1) Delivery Time Now, Agency Studios have a clearer yet more dynamic way of posting a deadline. If the production needs more iteration after […] Read more »

Sound Designer Spotlight: VAS_SD

Hello Valerio! How are you, what have you been doing lately? Hi to AudioDraft! I’m fine and definitely quite busy (fortunately!). A lot of things happened since the winning of the contest and besides a few ups and downs everything went great! You won Nokia Tune Remake contest 6 months ago. After that your tune got a huge amount of attention over the globe. Would you tell something about that hype, highlights etc.? Well… after getting the call at 8.30 am by the Nokia Sound Design department 6 months ago, I got definitely quite an attention! Apparently national newspaper and […] Read more »