Why You Need to Move to a Big City to work in Audio... and Why You Don‘t

Touring, Music Entrepreneurship, and Live Show Designing with Laura Escudé: #5: Laura Escudé is a touring musician, violinist, show designer, and entrepreneur who has worked with people such as Kanye West, The Weeknd, Cirque Du Soleil, Porter Robinson, Bonobo and many others. She also runs the Transmute Academy, an online ac... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

54 min listen

Mental Health, the Myth of Talent, and Impostor Syndrome with Sydney Kjerstad of Smart Game Piano: #8: Sydney Kjerstad is a pianist, entrepreneur, and founder of Smart Game Piano, an online piano teaching site that teaches musicians of all levels how to play piano through incredibly well-produced video game music tutorials. To date, Sydney has cre... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

41 min listen

Working in Games & Film, Being Rejected, and Helping Others with Austin Wintory: #4: Austin Wintory is an award winning concert, film, and video game composer who's worked on video games such as Journey, Abzu, The Banner Saga, Assassin's Creed, and countless others.In this interview we talk all about pitching for work, building a... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

62 min listen

The Myth of the Creative Grind, Growing a Personal Brand, & Being a Balanced Artist with Dot: #11: Dot (aka Kate Ellwanger) is a producer, online educator, DJ, and entrepreneur who is also now touring the world opening for acts such as The Glitch Mob and Zedd. Dot has also worked with The Oprah Winfrey network, Nike, and has even made music f... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

52 min listen

Loving Our Work, Self-Care, and Recording The World with Melissa Pons: #3: Melissa Pons is a field recordist and sound designer who is known for her beautiful nature recordings of wolves, rainforests, and natural soundscapes from all over the world. All of her albums are available on her Bandcamp page, including her mos... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

49 min listen

Coaching Artists, Transitioning Careers, & Following Your Intuition with Alarke: #14: Alarke (aka Mary Alouette) is a pop-singer, songwriter, performer, artist coach, and entrepreneur who has worked in the worlds of opera, gypsy jazz, cuban music, and has coached award winning songwriters all over the world. Alarke also runs S... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

34 min listen

Creating Plug-ins, Non-Traditional Careers, and Starting a Business with Ivo Ivanov of Glitchmachines: #7: Ivo Ivanov is a sound designer, modular synth artist, circuit bender, and is the Founder and CEO of Glitchmachines - a company that makes incredibly unique, sound-design-focused plugins for audio designers. On top of all of this, Ivo has been a f... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

49 min listen

Making Your Own Path in Music, Just Showing Up, & Touring with Omniboi: #20: Omniboi's path toward a full-time music production and performing career isn't like what you see in so many other musicians. He doesn't have a musical family, didn't go to music school, and didn't start music lessons when he was 3 years old. In ... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

47 min listen

Building an Online Presence, Going Indie, & The Truth of Talent with Luna Shadows: #17: Luna Shadows is a producer, songwriter, and vocalist based out of Los Angeles. Luna has one of the best aesthetics I've seen when it comes to being an indie artist, and does an incredible job of keeping a sustainable music career while staying t... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

56 min listen

Punk Music, Orchestral Mixing, and Audio Engineering with Jason LaRocca: #6: Jason LaRocca is a producer, mixing engineer, scoring mixer, and punk rocker based out of Los Angeles. After forming and touring with his successful punk band, The Briggs, Jason is now focused on being an engineer and scoring mixer on big name pr... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

43 min listen

Creative Flow, Following Your Intuition & Loving the Practice with DiViNCi: #10: DiViNCi (aka Glen Valencia) is a producer, world-class finger drummer, and creative coach who has toured with acts such as Ms. Lauryn Hill, The Soliloquists of Sound, The Fugees, and so many more. DiViNCi also runs Studio Sensei, where he coa... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

62 min listen

Saying ”No”, Choosing Clients, and Building New Skills with Disasterpeace: #2: Rich Vreeland (Disasterpeace) is an award-winning composer, musician, and audio artist who's worked on video games such as FEZ, Hyper Light Drifter, and Mini Metro, as well as films such as It Follows, Triple Frontier, and Under the Silver Lake. ... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

46 min listen

The Tiny Decisions That Will Get Us Big Results: Every single one of us is making tiny decisions every single day, and those micro-decisions make all the difference when it comes to our life and career. In this episode, we dive into some of the most important decisions you can make to ensure a succ... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

6 min listen

How to Always Stay Creative with Unlike Pluto: #22: Unlike Pluto (AKA Armond Arabshahi) is a music producer, singer, and songwriter who has amassed hundreds of millions of plays of his songs, has had his music featured in commercials for Dell, and is known for releasing at least 3 ultra-well-prod... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

46 min listen

Creating Sound Libraries, Pivoting Careers, and Building Teams with Jason Cushing of SoundMorph: #9: Jason Cushing is a sound designer, entrepreneur, and founder of both SoundMorph and Sinematic. SoundMorph is a premiere sound effects library company that serves sound designers from all over the world, and odds are you've heard their sound effec... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

42 min listen

Welcome to the Sound Business Podcast: #1: Welcome to The Sound Business Podcast! My name is Akash Thakkar and I'm a sound designer for video games with 11 years of professional experience. I've always been fascinated by people who manage to "make it" and create a full-time artistic caree... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

1 min listen

Working on Hollywood‘s Biggest Movies with Jason Poss: #12: Jason Poss is a wildly prolific orchestrator, arranger, music transcriber, and music preparation expert who has worked on projects like Lord of the Rings, Coco, Frozen, Star Wars Visions, and SO many others. In this podcast, we talk about eve... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

48 min listen

Game Audio & Music Law with Cory Shackelford: #19: Cory Shackelford is a music attorney who has been working exclusively in music law for over 10 years. He's represented everyone from video game composers to world-famous songwriters. In this episode, we talk about music law, how Cory made the ... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

35 min listen

The Rise of the Musician Entrepreneur with Doug Rogers of EastWest: #13: Doug Rogers is the founder and CEO of EastWest, one of the largest virtual instrument companies in the world. Their plug-ins have given musicians of all sorts access to higher-quality, incredibly well-produced sounds at a moment's notice. If ... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

36 min listen

Touring with the Lumineers, Making Your Own Luck, & Saying ”Yes” with Stelth Ulvang: #15: Stelth Ulvang is a musician, vocalist, songwriter, and touring member of The Lumineers. Not only does he work with other bands, but also creates music alongside his wife, Dorota Szuta. In this interview we talk about touring, playing shows wi... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

40 min listen

Making It as a Game Composer, Side Hustles, & Helping Others with Ryan Ike: #16: Ryan Ike is a BAFTA-nominated video game composer and sound designer based out of Seattle WA. Ryan's worked on a ton of games, including Where the Water Tastes like Wine, Frog Fractions 2, Gunpoint, Wizard with a Gun, West of Loathing, Reigns: G... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

56 min listen

Why You Need to Move to a Big City to work in Audio... and Why You Don‘t: Most people think you absolutely need to live in a big city to make a living in music, sound, or just art in general. But is that true? Let's cover that in today's episode. Also, this is a new format for me! Did you love it? Hate it? Let me know! ... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

8 min listen

Hitting #1 on the Charts with Thomas Powers of The Naked and Famous: #18: Thomas Powers is a singer-songwriter, music producer, and frontman of the band The Naked and Famous.In this episode, we talk about the rise of The Naked and Famous, Thomas' next steps in his musical career, how to actually think about self-promo... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

46 min listen

Becoming a Youtuber and Educating Musicians with Red Means Recording: #34: Today, our guest is Jeremy Blake, the man behind the wildly successful music-focused Youtube channel, Red Means Recording! In this interview, we talk about the importance of educating others in our field, how getting fired from his day job helpe... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

37 min listen

Working with the World’s Top Brands & Creating Twenty Thousand-Hertz with Dallas Taylor: #21: Dallas Taylor is a sound designer, creative director of DeFacto Sound, and podcast host of the #1 podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz.DeFacto Sound has worked with brands like Tesla, HBO, National Geographic, Cartoon Network, and so many others. On to... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

51 min listen

The Business of Voice Acting with Fryda Wolff: #24: Fryda Wolff has amassed hundreds of game, TV, and film voice acting credits in her career so far. You can hear in places like Sailor Moon, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Final Fantasy 7: Remake, Apex Legends, Fortnite, and so many other games, shows, a... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

70 min listen

How to Make a Music Career a Reality with Lena Raine: #23: Lena Raine is an award-winning and BAFTA-Nominated composer for video games who has worked on projects like Minecraft, Celeste, Steven Universe: The Movie, Deltarune, Guild Wars 2, and many other projects. In this episode, we cover the financia... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

41 min listen

Making It as a Sound Designer with Marshall McGee: #31: Marshall McGee is a video game sound designer who's worked on projects like Just Cause 4, Roblox, Outriders, and has worked with clients such as Nike and Adidas. He also has a wildly successful (and incredibly fun) Youtube channel where he break... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

38 min listen

Writing Trailer Music for the World’s Biggest Movies with Sigurd Johnk-Jensen: #29: Sigurd Jøhnk-Jensen is a guitarist, drummer, sound designer, and composer who's had an insanely successful career as a touring musician, as well as a composer for some of the world's biggest movie trailers. He's worked on trailers for movies lik... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

44 min listen

The Visibility Cloak Method: How Composers Can Find Work: It's super tough to find work as a composer... or is it? It turns out, many of the woes that composers face in their careers stem from being completely invisible to people who want to hire them. In this episode, we'll talk about what you need to do t... by Sound Business with Akash Thakkar

7 min listen

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