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Simon Bird

Sound DesignerDublin, Ireland
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Simon Bird

Sound DesignerDublin, Ireland
About me
I'm a two-time Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Award nominated sound designer and an experienced audio-post professional. I'm highly skilled at sound editing / mixing / mastering, and sound design techniques including foley, ADR, modular synthesis and sample manipulation. I've worked on productions for clients such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hasbro, CBBC, Tendril, Brown Bag Films and Boulder Media. I'm co-founder of Folding Waves a music composition and sound design studio based in Dublin, Ireland.
Work history
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    Co-Founder / Sound Designer / ComposerFolding Waves
    Dublin, IrelandFull Time
    Folding Waves is a creative audio studio, specialising in music composition and sound design for motion, film and advertising.
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    Senior Sound Designer / Sound EditorWindmill Lane Pictures
     - Dublin, IrelandFull Time
    While employed at Windmill Lane Pictures I was the senior sound designer / sound editor on all 62 episodes of 'Transformers: Cyberverse', a Boulder Media production for Hasbro. My primary roles involved supervising the sound edit, character & environmental sound design, dialog edit, atmos design / edit, foley performance / edit, sound effects edit, and preparing the edit session for mix. I also had limited involvement in client attended sound mix. Our work on 'Transformers: Cyberverse' received award recognition at the 2019 Irish Animation Awards in the category "Best Sound Design".
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Skills
  • Sound Design
  • Sound Editing
  • Sound Engineering
  • Sound Mixing
  • Soundtrack Composition
  • Experimental Sound
  • Film Sound
  • Music Production
  • Film Scoring
  • Music Composition
Education
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    Higher National Diploma (HND) in Music Productionbray institute of further education
     - Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Awards
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    Sound - Music Composition (Nominee)Motionographer
    Nominated, alongside Damian Molony, in the Music Composition category at The Motion Awards for our music composition work on 'OFFSET' a title film produced by Windmill Lane Pictures for the 2019 OFFSET creative industry festival.
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    Outstanding Sound Editing For A Preschool Animated Program (Nominee)Emmy Awards
    Nominated at the 46th Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for sound edit work on 'The Stinky And Dirty Show' (Brown Bag Films, Amazon Studios).
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