- 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).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Droo
- Professor at the Louis-Lumière school of cinema (Paris)
- Professor at Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique
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