Chiara Luzzana is a Sound Designer and Composer, known for her use of Zoom field recorders. A personal project sampling Swatch watches eventually became the official Swatch theme which then led on to similar commissions from several global brands. Caro C talks to her about her journey into corporate sound design.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
01:31 - Sound Artist And Soundtrack Composer
02:58 - Working With Brands
04:28 - Creating A Sensory Journey
07:30 - Recording Skin
08:40 - Getting Started In Sound Design
11:28 - Studying In Shanghai
12:33 - Learning To Listen
15:52 - Musique Concrète
16:55 - Production Techniques
18:41 - Working With Zoom
24:41 - Other Hardware and Software
26:38 - Creating A Real-Time Soundtrack
29:44 - The Lavazza Project
34:42 - Working In Immersive Audio
35:15 - Favourite Plug-ins
37:27 - Future Projects
Chiara Luzzana BiogChiara Luzzana studied classical music as a child and later took a course in audio engineering specializing in musical cognition at Berklee College of Music. She started her career in cinema and advertising but in 2013 won an artistic residency in Shanghai.