Jean-Pierre Halbwachs
- Sound Department
Jean-Pierre Halbwachs started doing sound design at the age of twelve
(stealing his older sister's cassette recorder). First soundtrack known
as "Dracula meets Frankenstein" although it was not so good (because of
the cheapness of the equipment and the lack of a steady story) it was
some sort of a beginning. When his parents said "You gonna be a doctor"
he answered "a sound doc, yes...and nothing else!". He then went to
Insas (Belgium) got his diploma with "Grande Distinction" and studied
Quadriphony and such in a music research studio. In 1986 he joined the
"Sounddroïd Project" at DroïdWorks (San Rafael, USA) and came back to
France mainly because of his unequaled love of French cheese. Mid 1987
he started a Post Facility using an AMS Audiofile, and started to work
as a Sound Editor and Rerecording Mixer. But Sound Design was (as well
as cheese) his true love, so he purchased a basic pro tools to be able
to tweak, treat and create sound effects. He wrote a book about Time
Code, boring but helpful and began to teach in different schools:
FEMIS, Louis Lumiere and the Conservatoire Superieur de Musique de
Paris. He won a MPSE Golden reel Award for "The City of lost Children"
even if someone else (awfully greedy) took the title of it. Then came
his second daughter and he slowed down working for film, rather trying
to be a good dad' than an average sound cutter. Still working as a
Rerecording mixer and Sound Designer/Editor, he stopped eating cheese
and began early morning bicycle rides (to loose fat).