In Conversation with
Professor Korey Pereira
Emmy Award-Winning Sound Editor, Professor
By Sofia Alvarado, journalism freshman
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rofessor Korey Pereira and I started our interview in an unusual way — bumping into each other on the way to our meeting spot. After crossing paths on Guadalupe, he led me to the classroom we planned to meet in, as I had no idea where it was. Here, I got to see Pereira’s eyes light up as he showed me the equipment in the production room. The massive speakers, the mixing board and the cinematic lighting used for screenings — his passion for his craft immediately beamed through.
As we sat by the mixing board to officially begin our conversation, I could tell this was someone fully in their element surrounded by these seemingly complicated and technical tools. However, working on his passion – audio engineering – was not what Pereira thought he would be doing when he first arrived to the Forty Acres. “I started my time at UT as a viola major in the School of Music,” Pereira said. “I came to UT with this idea that I was going to start a record label.”
