Resume / CV

Primary interests:
Sound Design, Postproduction Sound, Set Design, Lighting, Scenery Construction

Aaron Acosta

 

  info@aaronacosta.com  www.aaronacosta.com

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Primary Interests: 
Technical Direction; Lighting, Sound and Set Design and Production; Postproduction Sound.

Education:
Bachelor of Arts, Sound Design in Theatre and Media. The College of Santa Fe,  2002.  Cum Laude
Bachelor of Education (Post Secondary), Memorial University, Newfoundland. PT Distance Education - In progress

Certification:
-Nova Scotia Class 5 New Driver’s License.
-OHS & WHMIS training, Nova Scotia Community College 2011
-St. John Ambulance Standard First Aid/CPR level C and AED 2011
-Fall Arrest Certification 2008

Employment: 
*Box Office Staff: Boardmore Playhouse. 2011.
*Instructor, Stagecraft class DRAM 3104:  Cape Breton University. 2011.
*Project Coordinator:  Royal Winnipeg Ballet School.  2006-2011
Includes organizing and stage-managing the Concert Hour Ballet Tour, arranging school travel, providing technical theatre support, and developing the school calendar. Delivering a lighting workshop to students. Providing or contracting technical support for all school productions and managing the International Audition Tour.
* Technical Director/ Resident Designer: Santa Fe Performing Arts at The Armory for the Arts Theatre. 2002- 2006 Includes lighting and set designs and production for 8 shows a year (two in rep.), in addition to managing theatre rental for concerts, presentations and other events. Managed and trained student interns in lights, audio, and set.
*Audio Engineer: Moving Image Arts Department, The College of Santa Fe. 2002- 2003
*Teachers Assistant: Audio Design class in Moving Image Arts Department, The College of Santa Fe. 2000-2002
            Theater Experience:
*Set and Lighting Designer, In Concert 20010:  Coppelia, Royal Winnipeg Ballet School at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People, 2010
*Set and Lighting Designer, In Concert 2009:  Mixed Rep and Snow Queen, RWBS at  MTYP, 2009
*Set and Lighting Designer, In Concert 2008:  Mixed Rep and Don Quixote RWBS at MTYP, 2008
*Set and Lighting Designer, In Concert 2007:  Mixed Rep and La Fille mal gardée, RWBS at MTYP 2007
*Sound Designer, Measure for Measure, Greer Garson Theatre, 2005
*Lighting Designer, Dancing One Soul, Armory for the Arts. 2004
            *Run Crew, Santa Fe Stages, Firestone Theatre, 2002
            *Electrician, Santa Fe Opera HMS Pinafore, Lensic PAC 2001
*Sound Board Operator, Moving People Dance Co., James A. Little Theatre, 2001
*T.D./ Sound Engineer, Santa Fe Stages, Firestone Theatre, 2001
*Master Electrician, National Dance Institute, Lensic P.A.C., 2001
*Sound Engineer, Santa Fe Stages, GGT/ Fire Stone Theatres, 2000
*Master Elec./Sound Op, National Dance Institute, Greer Garson Theatre, 2000
*Sound Board Operator, Pilobolus Too!, James A. Little Theatre, 1999
*Sound Board Operator, Parson's Dance Company, Greer Garson Theatre, 1998
Film / Video Experience:
-Sound Designer:  “Intro 1984.” Director, Jo Kirshenbaum 2009
-Contributing Composer:  “Themes of Life:  Lesson-1 Death.”  Director, Derek Eastham 2006
-Music Featured:  “Belowman.”  Independent horror film 2006 Director, Phil Stevens
-Contributing Composer: “The Visits.”  Independent feature film.  Passioneyes Director, Long Gao 2005
-Music Featured in WAORANI:  The last of the rainforest people. doc. Director, J. Michael Seyfert 2005
-Contributing Composer  “Façade” artificial intelligence, art experiment in electronic narrative game
-Sound Designer/ Composer.  “Nutcracker.”  Animated 3min film. Director, Kevin Soderlund 2005
-Sound Designer/ Composer. “Road Closed.” Independent feature horror movie.  Director, Matt Page 2004
-Sound Designer/ Composer.  “Peek-a-boo.” 3min film Director, Matt Page 2004
-Sound Designer/ Composer.  “9/11 IN A DREAM.”  2003.  Santa Fe 3-Min Film Festival.  Monique Anair

Audio for Web Design:
-Sound Designer/ Composer.  Xynergy animated logo. 2003
-Sound Designer.  SiteSpun animated logo.  2002

Additional Theatre & Film / Video Experience: College of Santa Fe:
Sound Designer, Six Degrees of Separation, 2002
Sound Designer, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, 2001
Sound Designer, Cabaret, 2001
Lighting Designer/ T.D., Installation Performance, 2001
Sound Designer, Time of Your Life, 2001
Assistant Sound Designer, Good Night Desdemona, 2000
Field Recording Engineer, Zozobra, 2000
Sound Designer, Blithe Spirit, 2000
Assistant Sound Design, Our Country’s Good, 2000
Sound Designer, The Homage That Fallows, 1999

Works Featured at Festivals:
-“Pebble Study”     Lumiere: Contemporary Art . Unconventional Spaces, October 2011, Sydney, Nova Scotia.
-“60 Rain Mix” Vox Novus 60x60 International Mix 2009
-“ 60 second signs” Vox Novus  60x60 (Evolution Mix) 2008
-“One“ Pixilerations [v.5] fragments & (w)holes, October 2008
-“Formant” A DIAMOND IN THE MUD:  Exhibition of Stereophonic Soundscape & Hörspiel Works, 2008
-“Formant” 2nd annual Delta State University Electroacoustic Juke Joint, November 2008
-“BC” Spring in Havana" International Electroacoustic Music Festival 2008
-“Remote control skew.” & “Pieces” program of sound works about "DEAFNESSES around us" zeppelin 2008, sonoscop: March 2008
-“Remote 60” Vox Novus Midwest Minutes Mix 2007
-“Pieces”  Vox Novus, New York City, November 2006
-“Nebulous” Just Plain Folks Music Award Song Winner.  5th Place. Ambient. 2006
-“Wave Under 60.”  Vox Novus, New York City, November 2004
-“Traffic.” Lunel (France) June the 6th 2004, The Electrolune performance
-“Traffic Under 60.”  60x60 concert.  Vox Novus, New York City, November 2003
-Reflections on “Eye of God.” (2002) Featured in 2003 Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival and Sixth Annual Santa Fe International Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music
-"Traffic" and "Nebulous" performed at a special tape music reception on September 25 at the Santa Cruz Cayuga Vault for local audience and members of the Woodstockhausen Staff

Lighting Equipment:
Lighting Consoles: ETC Element, Strand basic Palette, ETC Express, ETC Impression, ETC Expression
Software: various off-line editors, Horizon Marquee lighting control, Rosco LPS, VectorWorks

Sound Equipment:
QLab, Pro Tools, Logic, Nuendo, Garage Band, Reason, Cube Base, Sound Forge, Bias Peak sound editing software. DAT, ADAT, and analogue real-to-real recording. Digital signal processing and editing. MIDI. CDR’s, MINI Disk.  Digital and analogue mixing consoles.  Condenser and moving coil dynamic mics.   ACS (Acoustic Control System)

Video Programs:
iDVD, iMovie, Graphics Programs:  PhotoShop

Administrative Software:
Word, Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Entourage and Database, Power Point, Bento, ACT, MAC and PC.

Other Skills:  Fencing, Pilates, Musician:  Cello, Guitar, Bass, Trumpet, and Violin. Mac and Windows intelligent.
Cracked electronic music.  Electronic project hobbies: making simple circuit boards.

Composer:
Independent CDs of electro acoustic music:  deep field; wave; frequency, amplitude and time; deep field

Special Honors:
Graduated Cum Laude
Dean’s List Spring 2001
Dean’s List: Fall 2000
Dean’s List: Spring 1999
President’s List:  Fall 1998

Conventions Attended:
CITT.  2008  Ottawa
USITT. 2005 Toronto
USITT. 2000  Denver

Organizations:
Board Member: Cape Breton Stage Company.
Professional member:  Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology
Individual member: United States Institute for Theatre Technology
Subscriber.  The Electronic Music Foundation
Member.  The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
Member. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada
Member: Canadian Electroacoustic Community

References available upon request.