Xavier Velastín (He/Him)

Sound Artist at Freelance

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About Xavier

Timezone:

Europe/London (+01:00)

languages:

English, Spanish

    Experience:

  • Freelance

    Skills

  • Audio direction
  • Audio programming
  • Fmod
  • Foley
  • Freelancing
  • Field recording
  • Dialogue editing
  • Implementation
  • Middleware
  • Music design
  • Sound design
  • Unity
  • Unreal engine
  • VR & Ambisonics
  • Wwise

Credits

Bio

As well as freelancing in the indie game space - as Sound Designer, Technical Sound Designer - I work in installations, immersive, theatre and live art as a Sound Artist, Sound Designer, and Creative Technologist. This covers anything from sound engineering live instrumentalists to programming show control software to setting up networking between other departments (AV/LX). I also create my own sound-centred performance, which I've toured and performed at festivals. I've delivered several arts projects in which I've engaged other practitioners, so I have familiarity with project management, running open calls and grantwriting. I've been a mentor for 3 years with Limit Break as well as several other official and unofficial mentorship.

Other people on here have a lot more specialised and AAA game experience so I guess what I offer is a bit of the world outside, in terms of how you might bring games experience to the arts and vice versa, and also I can help with freelancing more generally as I've been self-employed for over a decade.

Before reaching out, please make sure you've followed one of the many free guides (including here on game audio learning) and started actioning some of those points. It can be a little hard to know how to help somebody who hasn't opened FMOD or done a game jam or watched an AirCon talk. Come to me with some actual questions and concerns and I can help you better.