Simon James - Sound Designer Guest Speaker

 This guest lecture, although not in a field I see myself pursuing was very interesting. Simon told us how he got to where he was, the different pieces of work he has produced and more importantly how he managed to capture certain sounds. Overall, what I took from this talk was that it's so important to experiment and try new things. There was a part where he mentioned recording the sounds of an escalator to just see how it sounded, then months down the line this became a beneficial sound to create something different to initially intended. This is something I could possibly do more of as I do often find myself getting comfortable with certain things and maybe I could go out of my comfort zone more to really test my creativity.

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