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SOUND PRODUCTION

SOUND DESIGN

I design sounds / effects for audiobooks, films, multimedia.

RECORDING

I record audio – as a boom operator, on field or in studio.

MUSIC

I produce music / songs for films, theater, ads or other projects.

LIVE SOUND

I do live event sound for concerts, theater or other events.

WORK

WHAT: SHORT FILM (TURKEY) – PRODUCTION, FIELD RECORDING, COMPOSING & SOUND DESIGN AND VIDEO (CAMERA & POST).

How: This film was shot and Field Recorded within 1 month in Istanbul by me. To be highlighted are the many, many exciting soundwalks through this noisy, never resting city of 15 Million people. Main gear was a Røde Shotgun mic & headphones (+ camera). However, the exciting part did not stop at that moment: putting these sounds together as one composition of “sound pollution” in the Postpro, editing and emerging them into a beat of two street boys was the fulfillment of it all!

WHAT: SHORT FILM (GERMANY) – COMPOSING & SOUND DESIGN OF SOUNDTRACK.

How: The order of the director was to compose a soundtrack that is heavily leaned on “Insomnia” (Faithless) to fit the motto of lack of sleep in this scene. The film itself has a high experimental value and pushes boundaries. Thus, the song needed some extra spices of sound effects to fit the needs of the “Monstera-plant”-creature. The tension arises w/ Arpeggiator, Panning, Voice Transformation, and very spacey Pads/Leads. Crazy music/ sound effects for a crazy film!

WHAT: SONG (AUSTRIA) – COMPOSING & PRODUCTION OF OWN SONG.

How: This is one of my songs as musician and performer “goldtaucher”. The song includes sounds from field recordings, sound effects from plugins such as voice transformation via Soundtoys’ Little AlterBoy, lovely PingPong Delay by EchoBoy or the Chorus Ensemble by Boss. The Voices were recorded in the studio by me, myself and I. Postpro, Mixing & Mastering was made w/ Ableton Live, including the whole plugin composition (Soundtoys Bundle, FabFilter, Waves, etc.).

WHAT: PODCAST (TURKEY) – SOUND DESIGN & PRODUCTION OF EPISODE FOR SPOTIFY SERIES “THE 35 WOMEN”.

How: The work includes field recordings for some (foley) sound effects, usage of sound libraries for other effects (such as the Japanese sounds for Junko Tabei’s homeland), recording the main vocals, and the whole Postpro and Mixing & Mastering process w/ Ableton Live. The layering of the sounds – such as the artificial news voices from the 1970’s – shall emphasize the importance of the short narrative documentary about women who made a significant impact on history.

WHAT: EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO (AUSTRIA) – COMPOSING & SOUND DESIGN.

How: Having seen this dark, spooky (silent) video for the first time, a feeling of scratchy, overdriven sound came in my mind. It has different layers as if many dark creature are communicating. At 1:08 it all the sudden breaks into a romantic, longing tune that fits to the dance, that again breaks by 2 dark noises at the end. In reality the shoot happened in a huge stairwell and the dancing creatures are two performance actors, visually distorted by PureData.

WHAT: 3D ANIMATION (POLAND) – COMPOSING & SOUND DESIGN FOR A 3D ANIMATION BY AN ARTIST IN WARSAW, POLAND.

How: Goal of this international Workshop week was to to merge different areas of Digital Design (3D & Sound). This 3D animation shows artifacts of the city of Warsaw, including its devastating history w/ Nazi Germany and the Jewish Ghettos. The artifacts evoke the feeling of “destruction”- the music shall emphasize it through the repetitive “Boom” but also the silent tune of hope by strings and soft bell melodies in the background.

ABOUT

HOW DOES URBAN SOUND RELATE TO TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS? WHAT DETERMINES THE PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION OF SOUND IN A CITY?

These are two of the key questions of my Master thesis that led me to a whole universe of soundscapes within everyday life. Wether it’s a sudden joy of an upcoming beat by street musicians or an incoming droning of sound pollution by street vehicles – this conscious passive perception of sound paired with the joy of actively creating sound guided me to a fascination for frequencies and waves. There are almost endless possibilities in sound thanks to its still on-going “Electronic Revolution”. The field of composing and sound designing has never been so diverse. To enrich my experimental, artistic joy during my creative Master, I also took a 2 years education in Audio Engineering to get fundamental physical knowledge behind this topic. And to gain as much experience and perspectives as possible about the question on how to approach sound. This journey continues.

– Jan Sohlmann, M.Sc. & Certified Audio Engineer (2025)

TIMETABLE

2025 (Future!)
2025 (February!) Master degree (M.Sc.) in Digital Design / Experimental Media (Focus: Sound), (February!) Professional Audio Engineer Diploma (120ECTS), Premiere of own short movie "Rhythm of Istanbul - A Soundwalk" (Recording, Composing, Sound Design, Production), Event Technology Course @ Peter Cebul (e.g. work w/ Joe Cocker) in Vienna,...
2024
2024 Sound & Video Operator for theater production "Alice - Spiel um dein Leben" (Altes Schauspielhaus Stuttgart), Boom Operator for student short movie „Hazardry Of Unfinished“ (Filmakademie Wien) in Istanbul, Composing a Soundtrack for short movie "Monstera" (Berlin), 6 months Traineeship in Analogue Sound Design @ Georg Luksch (Grammy® winner) and Mixing & Mastering @ Goldchamber in Vienna, having >5 live gigs as a musician,...
2023
2023 Producing, recording, sound designing, and scripting podcast episode "Seven Summits And a Woman – Junko Tabei“ (Istanbul), 6 months Traineeship in Electronic Music Production @ Georg Luksch in Vienna, having >5 live gigs as a musician,...
2022
2022 6 months Traineeship in Live Recording @ Peter Cebul in Vienna, starting of career as a self producing, live performing musician (insta: "goldtaucher_"),...

CONTACT

FULL NAME: Jan Sohlmann
JOB TITLE: Digital Designer (Focus: Sound)
EMAIL: hello@goldtaucher.com
INSTAGRAM: goldtaucher_

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