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About Amit Shrestha:

Amit shrestha is a Professional Level Mixing Engineer/Sound Designer/Composer/Music Arranger. He holds BA in Film Sound and has graduated in Music Technology from LaSalle College of Art's Singapore.

Amit has worked for numerous DOCUMENTARY SOUND and has mixed more than 45 Nepali feature Films. He is also working as a composer and music arranger. His music and post-production work can be heard on many commercial film and music releases...

Education High School:-          St Thomas Boarding School. SLC (School Leaving Certificate) HMG Board; 2002, Katmandu, Nepal

University:-             ”A Level”, Cambridge University; July2002-July2004. A.J Wild Institute of Advanced Studies, Kathmandu, Nepal

University:-             Tribhuvan University. BBS (Bachelor in Business Studies) July2004-July2006

Graduate School:- Open University, La Salle College of Arts. Graduate with Diploma in Music Technology. July2006-July2009

Basic Music Training and Other Skills

Basic Computer Training

Special Guitar Notation course (Kaleidoscope Music and Dance Academy, Putalisadak, Kathmandu)

Music Keyboard Training and skills

Fluency in General Music Software Pro Tools:- A digital audio workstation platform for Mac OS and Microsoft window operating systems, developed and manufactured by Digidesign. It is widely used by professionals throughout the audio industry for recording and editing in music production, film scoring, television and post production.

Reason:- A popular music software program developed by Swedish software developers, Propellerhead Software. Reason can be used either as a complete virtual music studio, or as a collection of virtual instruments to be played live or used with other sequencing software.

Max Msp (Basic):- A graphical development environment for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling 74. It has been used for over 15 years by composers, performers, software designers, researchers and artists interested in creating interactive software

Audacity:- An easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. It can be used to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Kristal:- A multi-track audio recording software package. ASIO and VST FX support,16 audio track limit. Sonogram:- Sonogram has been programmed at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. It is useful to analyse sound & speech waveforms in video & sound files.

Fluency in General Studio Works

Recording:-He can record music with the help of digital audio recording software in different ways such as, live stereo recording, live mixed recording, multi track tape recording, random-access recording and midi sequencing etc.

Audio Editing:- He can edit audio through computer application for digital audio editing. Music typically allow us to edit track, apply simple or advanced effects and conversion of audio file formats etc.

Mixing:- He can mix the multi track recordings with the help of digital or analogue mixing console as well as with music production softwares.

Mastering and Audio Post Production:- Mastering, a form of audio post production. He can master the audio with the help of audio mastering tools (software) on Digital Audio Workstation.

Background sounds (films):- He have learned Foley and ADR recording techniques, which can help to replace dull production sound. Location sound-recording and reinforcement:- He have done location sound recordings and have also learned a systematized method of choosing the proper location for a loudspeaker(s) in sound reinforcement systems.

Experience

Participated in various prominent musical events in Nepal as well as in Singapore.

1 ) Took part in DASHIAN FESTIVAL CONCERT, OCT 2002 and 2003 in Nepalgunj, Nepal as a guitarist and vocalist of a local band.

2) Part of a Nepali band, HIMALAYA, formed here in Singapore. We made our first appearance at INTEGRATE, a gig held at Timbre, The Substation in SEP 2006. I was the guitarist.

3) Took part in the gig, One Voice @ Earshot, Asian Civilisations Museum in JULY 2007 with HIMALAYA.

4) Took part again in SEPTFEST, 2007, an outdoor concert organized by The Substation in SEP, 2007. I was the guitarist and one of the soloists.

5) A volunteer with Migrant Voices, an arts group that celebrates the artistic talents of foreign workers in Singapore.

Took part in various collaboration post-production works. 6) Collaborated on Video Art, Animation and Film project to arrange background sound for their visual work.

Conducted short-term research (parking problem inside Kanti Children Hospital, Nepal). 7) It was a short-term sociological research conducted by me under the supervision and guidance of Tribhuvan University lecturer, Miss Punam Rajya Laxmi Rana to find a solution for the parking problem inside Nepal's only children hospital. A.J Wild Institute financed the research.

8) Worked for “Harkey films” as a Head of sound department and offically worked for “Documentary Open Skool (www.docskool.org) ” as a Program Coordinator.

9 ) worked for numerous DOCUMENTARY SOUND and have mixed more than 45 Nepali feature Films.

10) Received Best Film Sound Mixing NFDC National Film Award 2014 organized by Nepal Film Development Company (NFDC). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZfF0moXbi4