Hi there everyone,
My name is Shannon, I'm 41 and an audio engineer and sound designer from Brisbane, in sunny Queensland, on the east coast of Australia. I signed up to steemit the other day and have finally got around to introducing myselfto everyone. It Sunday night here right now on July 2nd 2017.
Well here's a little about myself, I have been into music and bands since my teens and always loved punk and rock music in my early years. When i was about 13 my mom gave me a nylon string guitar and said "stay out of trouble" after hanging with a few kids from the wrong crowd. SHe showed me three chords and i had to figure the rest out myself. Not long later, a friend showed me power chords and began to understand where all the notes on the guitar were, so i started playing to the misfits and sex pistols as best i could.
My mum wasn't too happy as she was a church singer and told me about flamenco, so i went to music shops trying to find out more about this spanish guitar style called 'Flamenco'. There was no internet back then and we didn't have a computer anyway so i had to learn bits n pieces over many years. After a few years i then heard a guitarist called "Joe Satriani" and his album Surfing with the Alien coming from a friend's neigbour's house and my life for music and guitar suddenly got serious!
I had to find out what that music was and who was creating it. For then next seven years i taught myself guitar as best i could and got better. I had a few crazy punk chaos bands at school and with friends, i could never play other peoples music so i just made up my own weird stuff. When i was 18 i wanted to study sound engineering but my dad said there was no future in music! lol. Many years later i gave music a break for a while, got married and had some kids, i then pursued a path of knowledge to make others happy, i studied many different things from Law and psychology to Politics and mystical studies and meditation.
I had a few issues in life that set me back some, but so does everyone in different ways, i also made my own solo album and got serious in a metal band but these never went to far, so i finally decided i wanted to do the one thing i should have done when i left school. Audio engineering! so i went back and did a degree 20 years after first asking my parents for help in getting into it when i was a kid, i got my Bach degree in engineering and sound design last year and started my own business called AudioNRG.com in September 2016.
Doing this degree was the best thing in my life, it was amazing to see so many different facets of music and sound from a point of science instead of as an art. The crazy thing was, with all the years i did in bands and so on, i never actually had the chance to sit in a recording studio and i was pretty terrified. During the degree i got to have many more opportunities to experience the recording desk but also the art of getting the right sound with the right equipment, doing so many different projects including a full surround sound project of my own, recording a live orchestra, bands and Elvis impressionists, remixing pop tracks and midi design elements, and even a research paper where i worked on infrasonic frequencies (frequencies below 20Hz and considered outside human hearing range) and designed my own experiments which were quite successful.
All in all, i have had a pretty exciting life and have a great support from my wife and kids. Business is tough getting started and i have already done a few films including a documentary Series which has won nominations in a number of recent film festivals in the USA and Australia. The documentary was called "The ripple effect of PTSD" and focuses on the lives of families of veterans who live with the effects of PTSD as well as the healing process including the use of medicinal cannabis. I have worked on a few other short films, have my own YouTube channel of the same name (audionrg) and some interrnet commercials for a friend's music store as well, so i stay busy.
I hope this has been helpful for you to learn more about me as a new member of Steemit and i look forward to meeting more of you all here. If you want to see more of me, you can go to my website or watch some videos from my youtube channel which i may use from time to time for discussion topics. Thanks for reading and see you all real soon!
regards
Shan
AudioNRG 