Larry Sider
Larry Sider is Director of the School of Sound and was previously Head of Editing, Sound and Music at the National Film and Television School (UK). He is a film editor and sound designer who has worked for thirty years in documentary, animation and fiction. Most recently, he created soundtracks for the Quay Brothers’ The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes and Dave McKean’s Mirrormask.
Past projects include Patrick Keiller’s London and Robinson in Space, and Street of Crocodiles and Institute Benjamenta by the Quays. From 2000-2003, he consulted on LISTEN, an EU-funded research project led by IRCAM, the University of Vienna and AKG Electronics, devising new software to create audio-augmented environments in gallery and museum spaces.
He has taught at numerous schools including the Royal College of Art, IFS (Köln), European Film College (Ebeltoft), California Institute of the Arts, Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Maurits Binger Institute and the Media School at Bournemouth University. He is co-editor of The Soundtrack Journal.
Sider has elevated the profile of sound in screen production through the biennial symposium, the School of Sound, an international four-day event exploring the use of sound in film, multimedia and digital art. At the core of the SOS is the integration of theory with practice, and art with entertainment. Speakers at the SOS have included Oscar-winning sound designers Walter Murch and Randy Thom, composers Gabriel Yared, Carter Burwell, Simon Fisher Turner and Heiner Goebbels, and directors Ken Loach and, Mike Figgis. The next School of Sound will be in April, 2010.
– the UK's Number One New University: The Guardian University Guide 2009 & 2010