LISE KREPS

SOUND DESIGNER, 

SINGER, MUSICIAN, COMPOSER

Transcentury Radio Sound Design

CHORAL

Director of choir and readers for Dickens Christmas Carol, 2010-present

Founder of Capitol Hill Madrigals, Burnaby BC, 2011-present

• Performance at McGill Library's 10th Anniversary, Nov 5th 2011

Founder of "The Ultrasounds" (1998-present) and "Duck Soup" (1987-1990) a cappella groups, Seattle WA

THEATRICAL SOUND

FILM SOUND

Co-Sound Designer, Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story (documentary), Airwaves Sound Design, Vancouver, BC. Spring 2000

Assistant to Sound Effects Editor, Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story (documentary), Airwaves Sound Design, Vancouver, BC. Spring 2000

Assistant to Sound Effects Editor, Marine Life (feature), Airwaves Sound Design, Vancouver, BC. Winter 2000

Recording Studio Internship for soundscape composer Hildegard Westerkamp (working on the score for a National Film Board of Canada documentary film) Vancouver, BC. Summer 83

PERSONAL STUDIO HIGHLIGHTS

• Digital and analog sound recording, editing, and mixing
• Macintosh workstation with Digidesign's ProTools digital editing software
• Digital sampler
• Minidisc, DAT, multi-track reel-to-reel and cassette tape decks, turntables (78s & LPs)
• MIDI keyboard and music notation software

SPECIAL INTERESTS IN SOUND DESIGN

• Soundscapes
• Mixing ambient sounds/sound effects to compose new sound textures and create environments
• Using voice and speech as sound textures
• Researching, and sometimes even combining, time periods and genres of music

MUSIC SKILLS

Composition, particularly new music for early instruments or small vocal ensembles

Performance: flutes, recorders, viola da gamba, voice. Currently perform in an a capella singing ensemble, and have performed with other semi-professional vocal and instrumental early music ensembles since 1984

Teaching: flute, recorder, voice, music history. Taught Shakespearean music history and performance to middle school students at Seattle Shakespeare Festival's "Camp Bill", August 2001 and July 2002. Have taught Rounds Singing workshops since 1988.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Film Scoring I, with composer Hummie Mann, Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program, Seattle WA. Studied an overview of the process of writing dramatic music for motion pictures, television and videos. Fall 2002.

Production Intern, Glenn Sound Studio, Seattle, WA. Assisted in radio and music production and post-production, including digital sound editing. February - May, 1999.

Audio Production Certificate Program, University of Washington Extension, Seattle, WA. Completed one-year certificate program in music recording and digital audio for video production. 98-99

Recording Studio Engineer,Crow Recording Studios, Seattle, WA. Completed 12-week practical certificate course in 24-track analog recording. Summer 91

Master of Library Science, School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., December 86. Major: Music Librarianship.

Bachelor of Arts, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, June 84.
Major: Music (Composition, Early Music, Flute).
Minor: English Literature (16th-18th Century Drama).
Junior Year Abroad at Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford, England.

Production Assistant Internship, Voice of America Radio, Washington D.C. Winter 84

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