Stewart Blackwood
Sound Design MFA Candidate 
University of California San Diego
blackwoodsounddesign@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:
A sound designer’s job is to craft an aural landscape that feels organic to the world of the production. There are many different tactics and avenues to explore while doing this, but one way to encourage this feeling is to create show-specific MIDI instruments. This paper explores the process of making these instruments and examines three productions that I have designed as case studies for possible applications. While these instruments are not applicable to all productions, creating them can provide improvements in collaboration, improvisation, and performance.

FULL PAPER:
Creating MIDI Instruments for use in Theatre Sound Design
Publication: USITT Current Practices and Research in Sound
April 16, 2020

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