An interview with Hugo Verweij – 5 questions to the man behind the 5 questions project

If you are a lucky maybe your job is also your passion. And if you are very passionate about your job, you will look for a way to learn more, a day after the other, about your job, your work, your passion. And more, if you are very lucky you can share your passion with other fellow guys around the world.

And this is the story of a guy who found a way to learn more about the world and job he loved, and ended up creating a blog where, among other things, he asks people why they love what he loves…Sound!

After Tim Prebble, Andrew Spitz, Miguel Isaza, we asked a few questions to Hugo Verweij -  the man behind the blog Everyday Listening – about his sonic inspirations. Here you are…

Hugo Verweij at work

Hugo Verweij at work

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An interview with Miguel Isaza – Designing Sound and Sonic Terrain

If you don’t like happy-ending stories maybe now it’s the time to change your mind. A guy from a small town in Colombia fell in love with Sound, left the traditional school and decided to use the web as a tool to educate himself and then create a place called Designing Sound, a passionate blog devoted to the world of sound design for visual media.

The name of this guy is Miguel Isaza and he is the perfect man for this crazy era: he knows how to spread a tweet and write a good blog title, believes to the promotion of a world wide community for sharing experiences or ideas, and, last but not least, he aspires to be a sound designer…can you ask for more?

We wanted to interview Miguel for a long time but today is the right day, because together with a bunch of other Sound super heroes he launched Sonic Terrain, a brand new project dedicated to the world of field recordings. Here we go…

Miguel Isaza

Miguel Isaza

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An Interview with Andrew Spitz – Social Sound Design

If you ask yourself what new recorder to buy or if you are the only sound designer in the world being offered to work for free, now you know you’ve got to check out Social Sound Design, the new project of the sound designer – and of course the author of one of the best and most well-known blog {sound+design} – Andrew Spitz.

Andrew Spitz

Yes, he’s the guy of Tweet A Sound and The Telephone Game. We looked for him to get a bit deeper on the birth and evolution of Social Sound Design, and – why not – to investigate his point of view on our favorite subject, sound design.

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