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Stan van den Baar
Current Occupation: Freelance Sound Artist
Date of birth: 03-07-1986
Place of Residence: Rotterdam, NL
Driver’s license: Yes
Years of experience: +10 years
Qualifications:
Sound Design, Mixing, Recording, Composing, Production, Project manager AV, IT Systems Administrator, Team Lead.
Work environment:
My own studio at Noordersound, Multi-nationals, Small and large companies, Public and private sector and freelance.
Websites:
noordersound.com
sonophileaudio.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stan-v-89ba37bb/
nmfm.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/venesta
| Noteworthy credits
This is a selection of projects special to me and worth noting. Please check this IMDB-link for a complete and current list of my works in film as I try to keep that as up-to-date as possible.
Feature Film
2025 Hamartia [in post] (Supervising Sound Editor, Re-recording mixer)
2024 Stoffig Licht [in post] (Sound Designer, Re-recording mixer)
2023 Zondebokken (Sound Recordist)
2022 Ome Cor (Production Sound Mixer, Sound Designer, Re-recording mixer)
2022 Omari ‘geen gezeik’ (Sound Recordist, Sound Designer)
2022 LeoLeo: Het Alpacafeest (Sound Recordist)
2019 Boykee (Sound Recordist, Composer, Sound Designer, Re-recording mixer)
Short Film
2025 Jackpot [pre-production] (Sound Recordist, Sound Designer)
2024 Blin Fiducie (Sound Designer, Music Supervisor)
2024 Het Ligt Aan Mij (Sound Recordist, Sound Designer)
2024 Voor Ik Verdwijn (Sound Recordist, Sound Designer)
2024 A Perfect Night (Sound Recordist, Sound Designer)
2023 Lifeline (Sound Recordist, Sound Designer)
2022 Zuiger (Sound Recordist)
2022 Als Een Schaduw Bleef Je Mij Bewaard (Sound Recordist, Sound Designer)
2021 One More Shot (Sound Recordist, Sound Designer)– Best Sound 48HFP Eindhoven
2020 Vreemde Vogels (sound designer, re-recording mixer) – Best Sound Cinekid
2020 Ontsnapping (Sound Designer)
2019 Welcome to Earth (sound designer) – Best Sci-Fi Film Vesuvius
2018 Geregeld (sound designer) – Nominee Best Sound 48HFP Leeuwarden
2018 Tot Zover Mijn Ziel (Sound Designer) – Best Film 7Dagen Kort
2014 Safety (Sound Recordist, Composer, Sound Designer)
Series
2022 – 2024 In Motion (Sound Designer)
2022 Grijsgroen (Sound Designer)
2022 Killer Camp (sound recordist and sound effects recordist horror scenes)
2022 Hij is een Zij (sound recordist several episodes)
2022 BlaBlaBla (sound recordist several episodes)
Commercial
2024 Protix (Sound Designer)
2023 TVC Velthuis Kliniek (Sound Recordist)
2023 Bol.com social campaigns (Sound Recordist)
2023 LINKIT Broadcast Commercials (Sound Designer)
2022 Het Geluid Van PSV (Sound Effects Recordist)
2022 CRISP Broadcast Commercials (Sound Recordist)
2022 Patta (Sound Recordist)
2021 Tarkett (Sound Designer)
2020 Bamigo (Music, Sound Designer)
2020 DAKA Broadcast Commercials (Sound Designer)
Art & Installation
2023 – present De Rode Loper (Audio Engineer / Sound Designer)
2020 Betuwe’44 (Audio Engineer museum installation)
2019 FrisseBlikken (Sound Designer museum tour)
| Education
2012 – 2013 Audio for Games – SAE Institute Rotterdam
2009 – 2011 Audio Engineering – SAE Institute Rotterdam
1999 – 2005 Higher General Secondary Education – Euro College Maastricht
| Certification
2021 – Avid Certified User Pro Tools 101 & 110
2019 – 2020 Mastering Course – Mastering Academy
2013 – Digital Sound Design – Emory University (with distinction)
2009 – 2015 Several Microsoft certificates (MCITP, SCCM, and MCSA)
2012 – Prince2
2010 – ITIL v3
| Software skills
DAW’s: Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, Logic Pro, Ableton Live.
Middleware: FMOD
Code: HTML, Java, C#, python, bash, powershell.
OS: All major Windows Operations Systems, several Linux distros, Mac OS, Unix
| Detailed work experience in Sound and Music
Noordersound
2020 – Present
Job: Owner Operator
Work: A boutique 2 room studio on an island in the center of Rotterdam with the purpose of solely doing audio-post work and music production. The island is called Noordereiland, coloquially known as The Ship, and this is where Noordersound gets it’s name from.
The mission of Noordersound is to provide creative sound for experiential media.
To provide clarity of story, clarity of emotions — I try to achieve that in a very layered way using all the different sonic elements at my disposal. I approach sound in an impressionistic way and although that is an unusual approach for mainstream media, I feel it’s the right approach for experiential media.
Sonophile Audio
2014 – Present
Job: Owner Operator
Work: When I started out in audio I had little clue of what I wanted to do. I just knew that sound was it for me and I felt a deep connection to anything related to that. So I set up my first studio with the aim of providing music production and publishing services. Over the years I started to get more and more involved in other media, particularly Film and advertisement. So the mission changed a bit from a label to a audio post-production company. With the start of Noordersound in 2020 Sonophile has now returned to it’s roots. It’s now purely my label under which I create, collect, record, produce and publish sounds and musical assets for media. I publish library content on Soundsnap, Artlist and A Sound Effect.
Several of my project are highlighted on My Website, Soundcloud, Youtube and IMDB I have also recently started a Youtube channel on Sound design and Audio in general, called: The Art Of Waves
Not Made for Mono
Period: 2018 – 2019
The Job: Media composer
The Work: Monniker under which I wrote and produced the soundtrack for a 2019 feature film ‘Boykee’ and can be found here: https://nmfm.bandcamp.com/album/boykee-original-motion-picture-soundtrack and also on all major streaming platforms.
Creative Sounds (now BTI)
One of the larger dubbing and regionalization studios of the Benelux.
Period: February 2018 – November 2018
The Job: Freelance Audio engineer/ADR engineer/QA engineer
The Work: Recording, mixing and editing ADR for Dutch/German/Flemish dubbed series for clients like: DreamWorks, Universal, Netflix and more. Ranging on series and feature-film length IP for kids and teens. Also performed Quality Assurance screening before final publication.
Boykee
Indie Feature length Drama film.
Director: Liam A. Domonkos
Period: February 2017 – 2019
The Job: Sound Supervisor/Music Supervisor/Recordist/Composer/Sounddesigner/Re-recording mixer for a feature length street flick.
The Work: Do all of the above, occasionally be the set driver, and generally be everywhere all at once.
Safety
Short-film Action
Director: Liam A. Domonkos
Period: May 2014 – November 2014
The Job: Sound Designer/Composer
The Work: My second film. We all start somewhere and this was a serious attempt. Recording, designing, mixing and mastering of the soundtrack in 5.1, complete score and musical arrangement.
Opsporing
Short-film Drama
Director: Liam A. Domonkos
Period: August 2013 – December 2013
The Job: Sound Designer/Composer
The Work: My first actual film. Didn’t know what I had gotten myself into really. Dabbling at recording set sound. Music. Sound design. And putting it all to film.
Robin von Gestern
Von Robin bis Gestern
Album – 2012
The Job: Mixing engineer/Mastering engineer.
The Work: Praying to the CoolEdit Pro 2.0 gods. Saving and restoring bad recordings. Re-mixing several tracks and mastering of the final product.
Jamestown
Tracks – 2010 / 2013
The Job: Record demo’s
Work: Recorded, mixed and mastered several tracks. Also created an intro for them to use in live-shows. The band dissolved in 2014.
Surface Noise
Tracks – 2011
The Job: Record, mix and master a band EP release.
Work: Produced and recorded this wonderful bunch of lads for my final graduation project. They went on to do great at their university-band-level. Dissolved.
Keko Yoma
Bienvenidos al Sur
Album – 2010
The Job: Pro Tools engineer/Mastering.
The Work: Was in over my head. Got rushed in as a last resort hail-mary at studio Magnetophon to setup sessions in Ardour with a broken Pro Tools session with this Chilean rockband. The previous engineer had quit the job. We got it working. After which I was also asked to master. Which I should’ve declined. And is the reason it’s still on this list.
| Volunteer work experience
Elite Testing Services (formerly: CombatTesting)
CombatTesting was a company that specialised in community led alpha and beta testing of the highest caliber.
Period: 2008 – 2015
Work: QA-tester. Part of a community of gamers from all walks of life across the globe that were and still are passionate about gaming and doing there damnedest to make sure that the games that were tested were as bug free as possible. Responsible for testing online game-streaming platforms for EA and Ubisoft. Tested titles include: Medal of Honor Warfighter, Homefront, Medal of Honor, Outspark “Fist of Fu, Divine Souls, Fiesta.”, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and various titles for Paradox Interactive and more.
Free-range QA-/Alpha-/Beta-tester
Worked a tester on several AAA and indie titles
Period: 2005-present
Work: EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Paradox Interactive, Blizzard/Activision and more.
| IT Work Experience
GustoMSC B.V.
Offshore Engineering
Period: Februari 2013 – July 2016
Job: IT Systems Administrator
Work: One man army for the helpdesk in a company of about 220 strong. With the main office located in Schiedam and an office in Houston. Troubleshooting 1st, 2nd and 3rd line issues ranging from toners to fibre channels. Performed systems migrations and a move to a new office. Implemented and maintained all security appliances, fending off malicious actors daily. Perfomed systems forensics.
ThyssenKrupp Elevator CENE-IT
Elevator building and servicing
Period: November 2011 – January 2013
Job: Servicedesk Manager
Work: Managing an outsourced 4-man Servicedesk for the UK and Nordics region. In 2011 and 2010 this was the worst performing Servicedesk in the EMEA region. Turned this around to the best Servicedesk EMEA in 2012.
Europol
European Union’s law enforcement agency
Period: November 2011 – January 2013
Job: Servicedesk Agent, Project Manager Audio/Visual, Lead Technician.
Work: Started out as a Servicedesk Agent in their former HQ in The Hague but transitioned to Project Manager and Lead Technician AV for their new HQ. Delivering facilities according to specs set by Europol providing narrow- and broadcasting solutions with 32 language translation with a range of specialized equipment and connections.
Peak-IT
IT personnel recruitment and outsourcing
Period: September 2009 – January 2014
Jobs: Servicedesk Agent, Servicedesk Manager, Systems Engineer
Work: While employed by this company I performed several jobs and tasks as a contractor in both the public and private sector. Companies include: GustoMSC, ThyssenKrupp, Bosch, Yulius, Ministry of Justice, and Europol.
| Personal, Hobbies and interests
These days I spend most of the time outside of work with my family. Play with my son. I enjoy my days as a dad. Other than that, I like to be out in nature, tinkering on stuff or record the wild. I enjoy a good podcast for breakfast, books on the Humanities and Neurosciences.
To relax I make music by playing the drums, synthesizers and some electric guitar.
Self-education is the only education, a wise man once said. Therefore I also enjoy doing non-profit projects for students/graduates, teach young minds old tricks, helping them get started on their endeavors with sound and up their technical skills as well as help with motivation and inspiration.
Sometimes I have to remember I have a loving, patient spouse and we (used to) travel as much as we get the chance, which was usually 2 long holidays a year.
Sometimes I also have to remember I have them and enjoy a nice chilled evening hanging out with my awesome friends.