Eric's Audio / About
Path into sound
From a young age I had a deep fascination with sound, from jamming on the keys with my friends, to recording outside all over Chicago with a tiny Zoom recorder when I was 16, to composing for an orchestra and Hammond organ that led me to win an ASCAP Morton Gould Award. From these experiences I realized sound and music was my path in life and attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a focus on music composition and audio engineering (2011-2015).
Soon after I moved to LA and started composing music for libraries and had placements on various shows. Around this time I became fluent at coding and had a top 100 utility app on the App Store for an audio / video app called Spy Vision for a little while.
After a friend who happened to be a cinematographer invited me to do sound on some short films I realized how fun doing location sound can be. It let me combine my artistic abilities and sensibilities as a composer and my technical abilities as an audio engineer and programmer.
In my free time I enjoy watching movies and playing the piano.
Philosophy
Dialogue philosophy for narratives
As a professional production sound mixer, I see myself as not just a technician, but as an artist who helps tell a story through sound. I use various techniques including different microphones, mic placements and capturing ambiences in unique ways to capture the performance in real time.
For instance, when we use a prop microphone such as a singing mic or a gooseneck during a speech, I'd much prefer to capture the actual sound of those mics rather than rely on lav mics or boom mics. Or I'll rig up a pair of omni mics to capture a crowd with 3D sound. Getting the audience to feel like they are actually there listening to the performance is my number one consideration.