SCOT B. CHARLES sound mixer

Scot Charles is the owner/president of the Seattle-based sound production company Blue Charles Productions, Inc.

As a sound designer and audio recordist, his experience and involvement with audio production is extensive. He has been involved with many award-winning projects and won a national Emmy in 1999 for the National Geographic Special Avalanche: The White Death, in the category of "Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Programming - Sound Mixing." He was also nominated for an Emmy for his sound design work on Blue Water Hunters, the 1990 PBS special directed by Emmy-winner Laszlo Pal.

Scot is an active member of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes local 488, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians. He is a voting member of NARAS and NATAS. In addition to production mixing in the field for film and video, he owns and runs his own digital audio post facility built into his home, Studio Blue, offering sound design and surround sound mixing services for film, video and multimedia.

Scot is an instructor at the University of Washington extension in the sound production program and is a member of the university advisory board. In addition, he taught advanced audio production techniques for two years at the Art Institute of Seattle. He was previously an on-air broadcast announcer for NPR affiliate KPLU-FM and spent several years as a performing musician. Scot was the senior advisor/manager for over 10 years at Alpha Audio, a digital post-production facility at Alpha Cine Film Labs in Seattle. He has done professional voice narration for commercial projects and now specializes in audio design and recording for film and video.

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