Hearing is a sense. Listening is a relationship.
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EVERYBODY LOOKS AT A PROBLEM, WE LISTEN TO IT
The Listening Lens is how we diagnose space and briefings, before sound is ever a medium.
We use what we hear: every space already sounds like something, usually by accident. And we mix before we add. Mute, solo, EQ, gain, all are knobs we tweak reality with.
TURNING HEARING INTO LISTENING
Listening is attention, and attention is the scarcest thing a visitor has. It opens the path to wonder, connection, feeling, changing behaviour.
That’s why sound comes first. What a space sounds like is fixed by its architecture and the visitor’s route through it.
A STUDIO BUILT LIKE A GOOD MIX
Brand strategy and behavioural thinking. Experience design and audio engineering. Sound art and scientific sonification.
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stephanie dufrane / founder / creative director
Originally from France, Stéphanie has 20 years of brand & marketing management in Europe, from startups to multinationals. With Audio Engineering and Music Production she layered a sonic dimension to her skills and founded Sounbloom to refresh how sound can build wonder, connect and impact.
She is passionate about complex story telling and about forward thinkers that truly believe in their identity. She thrives in connecting people, DNA, sensory environments and artists into innovative concepts that deeply resonate with their audiences.
On the side she is a passionate rock climber and an independent perfume developer.
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Manfred Roovers / Experience designer / Music Producer
Manfred leads commercial strategy and client relationships at SoundBloom and the one who makes sure good ideas survive contact with budgets, timelines and stakeholders. Graduated in Experience design, Manfred thrive in listening to specific problematics and translate those in unique sound led concepts.
He’s a composer and producer at heart: bold, raw and moody, with a shiny and powerful analog-sounding mix. His range runs from radio pop to vintage hip-hop and festival EDM, for brands including KFC, Samsung, Heineken, ING, Nivea and Schwarzkopf.
On the side he is a kickboxing fanatic and an outdoor lover.
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Yota morimoto / sound artist / sonology researcher
Yota Morimoto is a Japanese composer, sound artist and researcher born in Brazil.
His works attend to the materiality of sound and explores non-conventional approaches to generating and transmitting sound. He composes for musicians, ensembles, public spaces, presents art installations at musea, festivals and conferences.
He is active in sound design, (interactive) sonification implementation working with industrial and institutional commissioners such as Filmmuseum Amsterdam, NTT Communications, Shiseido or Honda Motor.
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Daan duijf / media composer / music producer
Daan is a pianist, music composer and producer who covers a broad variety of styles. He excels at delivering cinematic and classical music, blending it into a modern, hybrid style. A true sonic storyteller, making moving images come to life through sound, he has created music for all platforms, from digital media to TV, and there’s no genre he can’t tackle.
With a broad experience with session players, bands, ensembles en orchests, he recently delivered sound for Heineken, Toyota, Square, Paleis ‘t Loo, Colour Catcher and Crisp.
