Weidong Lin
Weidong
Lin
Weidong Lin
Weidong
Lin
“
the treatment of the human voice as an element of texture should, indeed, always be approached in a musical way
”
Glenn Gould
b.1985
Singapore
residing in
London, United Kingdom
practices
Sound Design
Photography
Digital Cinematography
Yoga
Weidong is an award-winning radio feature maker.
Previously a highly sought-after Mandarin Radio Producer/Presenter with SPH Radio UFM1003, he joined Monocle 24 as a Sound Engineer/Designer in 2015 and worked as a Studio Director with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 2017-2022. He’s now a Sound Designer with The Economist Podcast Innovation Lab.
A fond interest in image-making led him to begin taking stills for independent films with young Singaporean directors Boo Junfeng and Anthony Chen and his own body of work has been exhibited and published in books and magazines.
He has also dabbled in cinematography, theatre multimedia design, site-specific-theatre audio design, sound design for film, and is always interested in expanding his vocabulary and craft in the creation of images and sound. (Collaborators include: Drama Box, Tang Shu Wing Theatre Studio, TheatreStrays, W!ld Rice.. etc)
Weidong is also a Yoga Alliance (USA) certified Yoga Instructor and takes his coffee-brewing and vegetarian cooking very seriously. He completed his MA in Radio with distinction at Goldsmiths, University of London in United Kingdom and is currently based in London.
“
Musical art has two aspects, one which is something like a dance of molecules that reveal materiality, the other is the establishment of human relationships in their sound matter.
”
Awards
Awards
Awards
2016
Audio Production Awards 2016
Best Sound Designer/engineer, nominee
Working as a studio manager across all live current affairs output, Weidong Lin is also the principal sound designer/engineer for Monocle 24's flagship magazine radio show "The Urbanist" — hosted by Monocle's Founding Editor Andrew Tuck.
This award-nominated audition tape starts with two extracts from 'Tall Stories': The Urbanist's weekly audio outing that brings one on a journey to a building, a park bench, a statue — somewhere that reveals something special about the cities we live in.
We visit London's Queens Square, where a tiny metal square triggers an introspection of a city's healing wounds. We also head to Honolulu's Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial that commemorates the service personnel who died in the first World War. It's also now an open-air sea-water swimming pool.
Next, you'll hear a one minute extract from Monocle 24's business programme 'Eureka', a weekly spotlight on an entrepreneur's inspiration. It is edited and sound designed from an informal interview.
The ending package is an audio monologue that looks at Berlin's position as a vibrant city of arts and culture, first broadcast on Monocle 24's flagship affairs programme — The Briefing.
2015
Charles Parker Prize
Silver
Weidong gave up up his producer/presenter career in 2013 much to the surprise of his fans on radio, closest friends and family. But for him, this was the only way to grieve after the passing of his mother in 2011.
In this feature, two men come to terms with loss — in an open, honest confrontation of memory and grief.
“Very moving, slightly hypnotic, innovative and imaginative”
Another judge observed that Weidong “brings an oriental sensitivity and originality to the production, transforming the dialogue by subtle use of gongs and bells, drones and audio overlays.” The judges also praised “a great piece of straight interviewing given how much the man opened up.
A programme about death as a part of living, about pain in remembering but also in forgetting.
WITH
Stephen H.
Andrew Parr (Hypnotherapist)
ADDITIONAL MUSIC
audiography005 by sonicbrat
audiography012 by sonicbrat
E R by Sylvain Chauveau
Deadliest Day
sound design
⦗Deadliest Day⦘
BBC Radio 4 Podcast
Deadliest Day
sound design
⦗Deadliest Day⦘
BBC Radio 4 Podcast
“The reporting here is intimate, unflinching and poignant, the production elegant and atmospheric.”
A special investigative series from BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Today podcast
Producer: Heidi Pett
Sound designer: Weidong Lin
Original music: Matthew James Kelly
Executive producer: Matthew Price
Editor: John Shields
Original programme page on the BBC or find it here on iTunes
Original programme page on the BBC or find it here on iTunes
Original programme page on the BBC or find it here on iTunes
Original programme page on the BBC or find it here on iTunes
Original programme page on the BBC or find it here on iTunes
Original programme page on the BBC or find it here on iTunes
“For once, too, the sound design (by Weidong Lin) enhances the atmosphere, adding to what’s being said without being a distraction. Not for the faint-hearted but the telling of an important story with purposeful intent. For once, money well spent.”
“... must be one of the most graphic pieces of content ever produced by the BBC.
This brutally authentic spectacle of war is possible because Deadliest Day is a podcast. Such gore would never be commissioned in visual formats, yet the picture is painted by the voices of soldiers..”
Featured Work
Featured Work
Selected Features
Radio Feature
A Natural Garden
A tour into the home of an interior designer reveals more than just the decoration of a domestic space.
We visit a converted barn David bought with his partner Neil where they spent most of their time cultivating a garden in the idyllic countryside.
The feature draws heavily from the metaphor of its setting and anticipation of seasons.
From Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore:
“The birth and death of the leaves are the rapid whirls of the eddy whose wider circles move slowly among stars.”
WITH
David C.
ADDITIONAL MUSIC
Opening by Philip Glass
Sound Design — Film
The Mist
A film by Liao Jiekai
Sound Design by Weidong lin
Awarded Best Director, Silver Screen Awards at the Singapore International Film Festival 2016, this is Weidong's second sound design collaboration with Liao Jiekai.
This dance-inspired film centres around two women who recall the sounds and images from locations in their collective memories.
The judging panel praised the film for successfully translating collective memory “in a poetic way (through sound and image), without falling into experimental film pretension”.
Cinematography
放不下的活著 Letting Go
Director of Photography for Singaporean pop duo The Freshman's music video.
Directed by Koo Chia Meng, starring popular Taiwanese actor Charles Tu and Singaporean celebrity actress Jessica Liu.
插班生The Freshman是 Diya（陳迪雅）與 Carrie（楊佳盈）。兩個極度樂觀、愛唱歌的女生組合，相隔三年多再攜手勇闖台灣樂壇，獨立發行全新音樂作品「長大」專輯。
強力主打歌「放不下的活著」由Diya譜曲、Carrie寫詞，為了能呈現和聽覺一樣充滿情感的視覺畫面，插班生一步一腳印籌資拍攝，請到當年第一張專輯第一首MV合作的導演顧加民執導，對於這張「長大」概念專輯的主打MV相當具有意義，因為導演一開始就從新人一路看著她們長大！攝影師林為棟更是從倫敦飛回新加坡替插班生拍攝，而這支MV的靈感就是來自於攝影師母親當年告別人世的體貼故事。
Other Works
OTHER WORKS
Other Works
OTHER WORKS
THE GARDEN GATE
Working on a weekly feature can get repetitive and formulaic but I was inspired and immensely moved by Founding Editor Andrew Tuck's rare confessional and introspective writing — this is my personal favourite work on Monocle 24's Tall Stories. (An actual postcard from a listener was delivered to Midori House, Monocle HQ to say how much they were moved by it.)
JOYS OF URBAN TREE CLIMBING
Jack Cooke, author of the book 'The Tree Climber's Guide' was invited on The Urbanist, a weekly at Monocle 24. Rather than the typical sit down interview, I armed the journalist with two recorders and said: let's record the process of actually climbing a tree! Here's my happy result, editing it down from 90 minutes on the same day of broadcast. (Many thanks to Bill Leuty for braving the mud and branches; I merely clicked on waveforms fervently, enjoying the proxy journey.)