Commissioned by GMA-7 TV Networks, this is composed, arranged, and produced for a cable TV series run in The Filipino Channel. This four minute themesong comes complete with thematic scores and stingers (not included here for corporate reasons). The challenge was to weave five themes in one musical piece at exactly four minutes -- suspense, romance, thriller, action, and fun.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
"Alin ang Naiba" Short Film
This is an excerpt of Anne Nicomedes' then short fim in UP Film Institute. This commissioned original scoring phase had been the end of a beginning. And the beginning of an end. Sure. Right. It bagged the Best Narrative, People's Choice and Best Original Music Score awards at the Inyorai Video Festival 2003. This garnered the Best Thesis award in her batch, too.
Friday, March 29, 2013
"Tech and Turf" Move-in Campaign
Pointwest Innovations, the first all-Filipino IT company had to expand to the UP-Ayala TechnoHub for further growth. Being one of their consistent multimedia providers, we conceptualized a full-blown multimedia move-in campaign which aims to introduce their new territory to a hundred employees.
The concept is titled "Tech and Turf" as this cutting edge IT company which sprang from the concrete jungles of Makati, finds its extended home in the serene, nature-friendly environment of U.P. Diliman where their people can explore & unwind after work under the trees or jogging at the academic oval as one of many perks.
For starters, this is the series of Posters we designed for them. Followed by Intra-Radio Ads & Brochures.
The concept is titled "Tech and Turf" as this cutting edge IT company which sprang from the concrete jungles of Makati, finds its extended home in the serene, nature-friendly environment of U.P. Diliman where their people can explore & unwind after work under the trees or jogging at the academic oval as one of many perks.
For starters, this is the series of Posters we designed for them. Followed by Intra-Radio Ads & Brochures.
Pointwest's "Tech and Turf" Move-In Map Design
Along with the Poster Series Design comes Pointwest "Tech & Turf" Move-in Tour Map Design. This two-page spread lay-out aims to show young employees the Quezon City aerial location, floor plans, facilities, ins & outs of the new branch for familiarization.
Pointwest Technologies' Agility Defined Newspaper Ad
Titled "Harnessing The Winds Of Innovations", this half-page newspaper ad is an announcement of Pointwest Technologies' services for the broadsheet market. The look, metaphor and over-all design is on the "Agility Defined" theme, as well.
Pointwest Technologies' Flyer Design for E-Services
E-Services is an annual technology trade fair in which multi-awarded company Pointwest Technologies has always been a leading participant. Here's a sample of a Flyer design under the campaign theme "Agility Defined". Our metaphor for agility, kite surfing is used as the design's focal center.
WinSource Solution's Brochure Design for "One Source"
Along with the AVP for "One Source"campaign, comes its quite simple yet stylish Brochure Design. Aside from English, this package came up with Japanese and German translations, as well, bearing the same look and lay-out.
WinSource Solution's "One Source"
Winsource Inc is a BPO & Contact Center company which wanted to release internationally an AVP showcasing what they do best for their clients. Another AVP with original music score to give justice to the classy image they project.
Pointwest Innovation's "Kite Surfing"
An AVP design with original music score for Pointwest Technologies hightlighting the company's core values using Kite Surf culture as its metaphor for “agility” as campaign slogan.
People Support's "In 30 Seconds"
A recruitment AVP for the call center People Support, Inc., this testimonial approach is cleverly packed in 30 seconds with employees telling their unique individual experiences.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
ABS-CBN's Konsyumer Atbp. Jingle
Philips' Trade-In Trade-Out Jingle
"Trade-In, Trade-Out", an event by Philips to launch their own line of high-technology audio gadgets. To give this event a kick, they had a trade-in promo activity to encourage their market to try out their new line of products and give it a hi-tech sonic image.China Business Launch Video
What better way to exhibit your brand than to have a video that will showcase everything special about your company? This is exactly what China Business Magazine did for its oficcial launch. With its advertisers, the press and its suppliers as their audience, this video opened and set the mood for the whole program.
Cats and Dogs Movie Premiere Radio Ad
MyPetChannel.Tv released a radio ad for Warner Brothers' 3d animation movie "Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore". This was promoted along with a number of fun events for lots of cute pets. JuanFoundSound produced this radio ad and provided the voice-over talent, mixing and mastering.
A World Going Green
A parody of the introduction voice over in The Fellowship of the Ring in Pointwest's move-in campaign radio ad.
VIA Philippines Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
A simple voice-over delivery for VIA Philippines' IVR requirement. Warm, short, yet sweet. Almost an ear-candy.
British voice-Over Sample
For a British advertising company positioned to be at the forefront of a new online advertising trend. Bloody...
Male voice-Over Sample #2
A sample of our Male Voice-Over Talent for Miracle Communications' AVP for board members.
Male Voice-Over Sample #1
Here's a sample of our Male Voice-Over Talent doing a warm, conversational yet dignified delivery for an AVP for ANCOP Phone Service, Philippines.
Family Planning Campaign Radio Spots (Dept. of Health)
A Radio Commercial series for the Tagalog/GMA audiences. Spearheaded by our colleague-friend, Hazel Lizano. Enjoy listening and be informed as well.
Jergens Make-Over Promo Radio Ad
Jergens "Anywhere, Anytime" Make-Over Promo aired over RX 93.1, Magic 89.9, Yes FM 101.1, KillerBee Cebu, Davao, and Cagayan De Oro radio stations. VO talents, Recording, Sound Design, Mixing, and Mastering by JuanFoundSound. Jingle/Music composed and produced by our very own, Junn Esteban.
Voices.com Radio Ad
Here's a 30 seconder Ad done for Voices.Com, London, Ontario, with Script-writing, Recording, VO talents, Sound Design, Mixing, and Mastering all totally done here... with a kind of Pinoy humor to go. Enjoy!
New Logo
There are two icons in our updated corporate logo. First one is in found - the "eye", which symbolizes the outfit's passion for Visual art . Second is in sound - the "ear", representing its madness for Audio or Music/Voice-Over creations.
The first word, however, is a name - the combined names of its founders.
Orange, as psychologists and geeks know, is linked with analytical thinking and creativity. Black could be void. And from its inanity, ideas, smart ideas, have reason to come to life.
Did it appeal to someone like you?
Tata Song - a Ditty by an 8-month Old baby
A song by an 8 month young baby named Himig.
Someone has said she could be the little-est recording artist in Manila.
When asked what genre her music is, her father mumbles "indigenous disco". Hmm...
We hope "TataSong" brightens your rather tiring day. Recorded, arranged and produced: © Junn Esteban. All rights reserved.
Hey, do you want one for your baby. Click:
http://babiesgottalent.multiply.com/ or,
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Babies-Got-Talent/306002672725?sk=info
Someone has said she could be the little-est recording artist in Manila.
When asked what genre her music is, her father mumbles "indigenous disco". Hmm...
We hope "TataSong" brightens your rather tiring day. Recorded, arranged and produced: © Junn Esteban. All rights reserved.
Hey, do you want one for your baby. Click:
http://babiesgottalent.multiply.com/ or,
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Babies-Got-Talent/306002672725?sk=info
Tagalog Language (aka Filipino) Voice-over, Literary
A literary excerpt performed in Tagalog Language (aka Filipino) Voice-Over by our in-house talent Anne Esteban. Native tongue for a native story.
Susan Boyle Sings, Homeless Ted Williams Speaks
For years, Juanfoundsound has recorded several Voice-Over talents ranging from authoritative, to classy, and to kooky sounding.
Almost all of them are gifted with inborn vocal tones with the capacity to deliver attention grabbing messages. Generally, they do their thing via modulated delivery. A normal, chatty conversation with them would not normally strike you head over heels.
And almost all of them are well-off people - having no troubles, particularly, with extremely stretching their muscles nine to five to pay bills and some more perks to go. But we've never heard of a man with a sweet, warm, heavenly voice whose economic stature is being a... vagabond.Well, not anymore. His story is proof that sheer talent will always be in demand. Technology will aid us, yes. But talent stays on top almost always. His God-acknowledging humility melts hardened hearts. And this time, to make things more interesting, talent meets technology. Cleveland Cavalier has offered Ted Williams a very attractive job opportunity using his golden voice. How was he discovered? Viral technology in a mater of hours.
Check out the his amazing story...
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplifier/51933/golden-voiced-homeless-man-captivates-internet/
Almost all of them are gifted with inborn vocal tones with the capacity to deliver attention grabbing messages. Generally, they do their thing via modulated delivery. A normal, chatty conversation with them would not normally strike you head over heels.
And almost all of them are well-off people - having no troubles, particularly, with extremely stretching their muscles nine to five to pay bills and some more perks to go. But we've never heard of a man with a sweet, warm, heavenly voice whose economic stature is being a... vagabond.Well, not anymore. His story is proof that sheer talent will always be in demand. Technology will aid us, yes. But talent stays on top almost always. His God-acknowledging humility melts hardened hearts. And this time, to make things more interesting, talent meets technology. Cleveland Cavalier has offered Ted Williams a very attractive job opportunity using his golden voice. How was he discovered? Viral technology in a mater of hours.
Check out the his amazing story...
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplifier/51933/golden-voiced-homeless-man-captivates-internet/
The Top Ingredient of a Great Sounding Band Album - The Producer
Throughout the history of music, from the Beatles to, say, U2, never a chart-topping song took place w/o the wisdom & supervision of a record producer behind the wheels in studio productions.
Granted that the band members are capable of egg-laying well-written stories/lyrics and excitng melodies, still, it is through the trained ears of seasoned producers that aesthetically good sounding songs (or hits!) are wonderfully forged. If you're wondering what magic does a producer contribute to studio album recordings, it's quite close to the task of a film director who breathes life into movie productions where actors are carefully and meticulously weld together to form a narrative obra.
English producer Sir George Martin wouldn't be regarded as the "fifth Beatle" if not for his arrangements, collaborative inputs and innovations that were way ahead of his time. Take for instance his awesome string arrangements for "Eleanor Rigby", the sound textures in the breakthrough album Sgt. Peppers, among others. Studio works that are often esteemed and revisited time and again. Even renowned guitarist Jeff Beck attested, “When we got later the psychedelic stuff, George put all that together. So without George, I don’t know. But of course the [Beatles'] songwriting’s there, the melodies are there, marvelous. But they would be much more crude and raw, I think.”
U2 regarded Steve Lilywhite (who has handled Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, DMB, Big Country, The Smiths, etc) as that of a "children's TV presenter" during their first album "Boy", as reference to being well-rounded studio teacher - a relationship which stretched up to their third album. Yet the band, who has consistently testified of not being musically adept since day one, would later keep sending him back to their Dublin studio productions each time they would get frustrated concocting true-blue live band sounding concepts. This dependence to their timeless fave producer works till their album "How to dismantle an atomic bomb".
In a book U2 by U2, Bono affirms one invaluable participation of a good producer by saying that sometimes when he hears a song, he can foretell if it's going to make it on the radio or not - even in it's bare form. In their song "Sometimes you can't make it on your own", Edge reveals that in it's progressive writing, there were five producers who were credited in it - Brian Eno, Danny Lanois, Chris Thomas, Jacknife Lee and Flood. Wait. Before you stone me by arguing that, of course, U2 can afford it, they also share that they had, at times, to pay all that they've got. And that's one way they could give real value to their fans.
Roaming Recording Studio
Do you need to record your Voice-Over talent for your AVP or Podcast but you find it difficult to book busy,distant, pricey studios? Tired of braving the Edsa traffic jam just to meet up your choice V.O. talent, take her/him to that recording studio, send back home, only to discover later that the recording didn't come out the way you were hearing it in your head? (Not to mention the agony of having waited for your supposed time slot.)
Try our audio service: the Roaming Recording Studio. There's no need for you to leave your office (or the privacy of your cozy home). We can go to your place, set up our portable studio in about 25 mins then, voila, we're ready to record your voice talent.
Plus, V.O. coaching, we do it for free, as a bonus, so you're assured of better delivery.
Call us up for reasonable rates. Click HERE for our contact info
Or email me - juanfoundsound@gmail.com.
Our Roaming Voice-Over Recording Studio.
Your requirements solved. Sooner and easier than you think.
Try our audio service: the Roaming Recording Studio. There's no need for you to leave your office (or the privacy of your cozy home). We can go to your place, set up our portable studio in about 25 mins then, voila, we're ready to record your voice talent.
Plus, V.O. coaching, we do it for free, as a bonus, so you're assured of better delivery.
Call us up for reasonable rates. Click HERE for our contact info
Or email me - juanfoundsound@gmail.com.
Our Roaming Voice-Over Recording Studio.
Your requirements solved. Sooner and easier than you think.
ONVERGENCE VERSION 10 - A Winner at Net25's National Songwriting Competition
Here's a song entry - "CONVERGENCE VERSION 10" - A winner at NET 25's national songwriting competition. Whether lose or win, it's going to be a challenge and a learning experience. So i might as well do what i can in a way short span of time. One thing led to another. Then i just found myself playing at the grand finals with my band BOOKiD! together with fellow finalists Karl and Erson. This is a demo of the entry. Hope you enjoy listening.
Junn Esteban [FILSCAP member]
Could I Someday Have a Playback of my Prep Musings?
Tonight, my chest deflated after having read this.
Not that i resent being what i've become now. It's just something i wish i could go back to. So that i could be a better playground mate to little angels. Like Himig.
"I love child things because there’s so much mystery when you’re a child.
When you’re a child, something as simple as a tree doesn’t make sense.
You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow —
you haven’t got a handle on the rules when you’re a child.
We think we understand the rules when we become adults
but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination."
– David Lynch (via nathanielstuart) (via booklove) (via dabebs:)
Digital playgrounds fail to give children pure joy. They need space. Real space. To run is real fun.
Got to be environmental & physical... over digital. Time can break sweats real good... as slow as a Kurosawa flick, as drooling as a guitar lick.
(I don't think i could make my daughter swing to a digital string.)
Oh well. I gotta "run"...
Not that i resent being what i've become now. It's just something i wish i could go back to. So that i could be a better playground mate to little angels. Like Himig.
"I love child things because there’s so much mystery when you’re a child.
When you’re a child, something as simple as a tree doesn’t make sense.
You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow —
you haven’t got a handle on the rules when you’re a child.
We think we understand the rules when we become adults
but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination."
– David Lynch (via nathanielstuart) (via booklove) (via dabebs:)
Digital playgrounds fail to give children pure joy. They need space. Real space. To run is real fun.
Got to be environmental & physical... over digital. Time can break sweats real good... as slow as a Kurosawa flick, as drooling as a guitar lick.
(I don't think i could make my daughter swing to a digital string.)
Oh well. I gotta "run"...
Sound Makes Me See
Madalas mas malinaw pa yung nakikita ko sa isip ko dahil sa naririnig ko.
Nangyayari rin sa'yo yan. Picture this:
6 a.m. kagigising mo lang. Usually, di mo naman ididnindilat mata mo, kasi nakikiramdam ka pa, o tinatamad, di ba?
Then your garage gate opens up. You suddenly remember you forgot to close it last mid-night. The "squeak" triggered a picture:
Some burglar has just slipped your house pedaling away with your mountain bike. Tumulpit ka sa kama mo at itse-tsek mo gate nyo kung bukas nga!
Si Inday lang pala - bumili ng pandesal nyo...
That's your imagination. Or intuition. Triggered clearly a possible "daymare". Which was triggered by what you heard. That's the underrated power of SOUND.
Tingnan natin yung mga bulag. Nakaka-uwi sila nang di gamit ang mata. Nabalitaan mo na ba kung paano gumagana ang mga paniki? (O, 'di ako si batman.)
Mahirap tumulay sa pader pag may tama ang tainga mo.
Pag walang tunog, ikaw ay hulog.
When i go to the movies, i would ask for a refund if there's a problem, major or minor, with their sound system. Or, at least kalahati, ibalik nila.
"Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual." - sabi ni David Lynch.
Madalas nga, di ko pa maintindihan kaagad ang plot. Kasi lumalangoy ang isip ko sa gara ng tunog. Nagkakaganoon ka rin ba? Ambagsik ng surround sound. Psycho-acoustics drive me psycho ::-)
That's why i prefer Radio over TV. AM Radio, that is. Nahasa ng nanay ko, nang di nya pansin, ang pandinig ko dahil mga drama nung totoy pa ako tuwing tanghali. No, baduy man o hindi, the point is i was trained to imagine big time ! [Zimataaar! May kabayong anggara tumakbo pero bao pala yun. Dyaske. Galeng!]
Today, as i walk as a music and sound artist, there are countless images that is see... and create... especially when it's dark. Sound is visible.
Nangyayari rin sa'yo yan. Picture this:
6 a.m. kagigising mo lang. Usually, di mo naman ididnindilat mata mo, kasi nakikiramdam ka pa, o tinatamad, di ba?
Then your garage gate opens up. You suddenly remember you forgot to close it last mid-night. The "squeak" triggered a picture:
Some burglar has just slipped your house pedaling away with your mountain bike. Tumulpit ka sa kama mo at itse-tsek mo gate nyo kung bukas nga!
Si Inday lang pala - bumili ng pandesal nyo...
That's your imagination. Or intuition. Triggered clearly a possible "daymare". Which was triggered by what you heard. That's the underrated power of SOUND.
Tingnan natin yung mga bulag. Nakaka-uwi sila nang di gamit ang mata. Nabalitaan mo na ba kung paano gumagana ang mga paniki? (O, 'di ako si batman.)
Mahirap tumulay sa pader pag may tama ang tainga mo.
Pag walang tunog, ikaw ay hulog.
When i go to the movies, i would ask for a refund if there's a problem, major or minor, with their sound system. Or, at least kalahati, ibalik nila.
"Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual." - sabi ni David Lynch.
Madalas nga, di ko pa maintindihan kaagad ang plot. Kasi lumalangoy ang isip ko sa gara ng tunog. Nagkakaganoon ka rin ba? Ambagsik ng surround sound. Psycho-acoustics drive me psycho ::-)
That's why i prefer Radio over TV. AM Radio, that is. Nahasa ng nanay ko, nang di nya pansin, ang pandinig ko dahil mga drama nung totoy pa ako tuwing tanghali. No, baduy man o hindi, the point is i was trained to imagine big time ! [Zimataaar! May kabayong anggara tumakbo pero bao pala yun. Dyaske. Galeng!]
Today, as i walk as a music and sound artist, there are countless images that is see... and create... especially when it's dark. Sound is visible.