Extreme Heat Fellowship 

Deadline: February 24

There is no application fee.

The Crow’s Nest, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University (JHU), will be providing up to three fully subsidized studio residencies from March-October 2024. The selected cohort of artists will work towards a group show themed around the public health and ecological challenge of extreme heat, particularly as it relates to urban heat and its impact on Baltimore communities. Each artist will receive $3,300 in honoraria to complete the work and dedicated studio space at the Crow’s Nest art incubator in downtown Baltimore. Artists will also benefit from the opportunity to interact with JHU researchers, sit in on relevant lectures, meet public health professionals, and will have the opportunity to propose additional programming. We are not seeking artists who are currently full-time students. If you will be a full time student for only the first half of the fellowship and graduating in Spring 2025, please be extremely mindful of your ability to participate in all programming.

Check Out Evan McRae's Experience from the GameSound Conference 2024: 

What happens a Gaming Sound Conference:
Sessions featured game audio professionals covering a range of beginner to advanced topics in game soundtrack design (unique compositional challenges for non-linear media, implementation details, dynamic mixing tools and techniques, impacts on gameplay experience, etc), including examples and demonstrations of the techniques in practice and how they are achieved.

What did you learn at the conference?

My particular focus was on Audiokinetic Wwise, a leading middleware solution in the game industry for integrating dynamic soundtracks into game engines, for which I watched the majority of my session replays. These conference resources have gone hand in hand with Audiokinetic’s online Wwise certification course series, which I have also individually pursued over the winter session. In addition, I have bookmarked sessions on other popular audio frameworks, such as Unreal Engine’s MetaSounds and FMod, which I intend to review on my own separate from my primary goals in Wwise.

My access to Game Sound Conference recordings has helped me achieve my learning objectives to become a more versatile and technically proficient soundtrack designer for video games.

How do you plan to use what you learned?
I intend to apply these skills towards my INDS Capstone Project, which will involve composing, producing, and implementing a dynamic soundtrack for a video game I have also helped develop in the UMBC Game Developers Club. In the future, I hope to attend Game Sound Conference events in person in order to take full advantage of the networking opportunities with industry professionals, but this was perfect timing for my current needs.

Thanks to INDS:
I am very grateful to the INDS department for funding my remote attendance of the 2024 Game Sound Conference. Though I did not have time to attend sessions live due to the conference dates overlapping with my busy Fall semester, I was fortunately able to watch through replays of several presentations during the winter session in order to gain an equivalent experience.

Thank Evan for you experience!

Good morning! Due to the snow and road conditions, UMBC Hillel is postponing Hebrew Happy Hour to next Wednesday, February 19th. We appreciate your understanding and hope you stay warm and safe today. Looking forward to seeing you all next week for our first Hebrew Happy Hour of the semester!