Conference Talk

Rob Stenson

A Font is a Percussion Instrument: Animating Letters with Sound, Animating Sound with Letters

This talk will focus on the relationship between type and music within film and video. Through case studies, Rob will present work that combines sound, typography, and variable fonts. He’ll also share some of the inspirations behind things he’s designed, like the work of the title designer Jean Fouchet and the artist Len Lye.

This talk is scheduled to take place , 2023, at New York time (/UTC) as part of the main Typographics conference. Conference registration is required to attend in person.

About Rob Stenson

Rob Stenson

Rob Stenson is a designer-musician based in Monrovia, California. After studying architectural history at Columbia University, Rob worked for a time as a programmer in San Francisco before starting Goodhertz, Inc., an audio software company, where he currently works on audio plugin interfaces, a programming library called Coldtype, and lots of videos that combine typography and music. Rob also plays clawhammer banjo, enjoys looking at buildings, and would love to talk to you about replacing your gas appliances with electric ones.

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Presenting Partners

The Cooper Union Type@Cooper The Herb Lubalin Study Center

Gold Sponsors

Monotype

Silver Sponsors

Adobe Commercial Type Production Type Klim Type Foundry Frere-Jones

Lead Sponsors

Dual Type TYPETR Universal Thirst HEX Projects Maryland Institute College of Art Business Letters

Brass Sponsors

Font of the Month Club Occupant Fonts Typotheque The Metropolitan Museum of Art Remote Marketing Team Vermont College of Fine Arts XXIX Spaghetype Sharp Type 29Letters Pentagram Brooklyn Brewery

Pixel Sponsors

OH no Type Co. TypeTogether XYZ Type John Downer Darden Studio Society of Scribes Ina Saltz Scout Books DSType foundry Fontstand Process Type Foundry Emigre Fonts Arrow Type Emtype Cast Type Foundry Zetafonts Foundry CJ Type Fort Foundry Just Another Foundry NFType Jamra Patel Blackletra Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography Proof&Co. Fontdue MCKL TIGHTYPE Order Type Foundry Leinster Type

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Fonts In Use Eye Magazine TYPE01 Typographische Gesellschaft München

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