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05/15/2019

Quartz News

gotta love a good drone...

It’s called the “drone of dread”.

Film composers, as well as sound designers, mixers and editors, create this sustained sound to set the mood for a scene, and even an entire film, that is, a sense of impending doom.

12/06/2018

Unsung Heroes and Silent Pioneers: An Interview with Sound Designer Walter Murch

Walter Murch ftw

IN ENGLISH. Preparing a book on sound design in films and television, Andreas Halskov has talked with Walter Murch about film sound, listening and technology, focusing on Murch’s sonic inventivenes…

01/08/2018

Workshop: Strategies for Using Sound in Documentaries

For those in or near London... From the people behind the School Of Sound, a workshop focusing on Sound for Documentaries!

Fiction filmmakers acknowledge that at least half the meaning of a scene, and often more, comes from the soundtrack. But the documentary soundtrack is often ignored, left as a technical aspect of post-production or caught up in debates about the differences between different styles of documentary pr...

11/02/2017

Adobe’s Project SonicScape lets VR film editors see sound

Adobe’s Project SonicScape lets VR film editors see sound

Adobe is hosting its MAX conference this week -- and, as usual, it's using the event to show off some of its latest experiments. Indeed, Adobe even has a..

11/01/2017

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11/01/2017

Ultrasonic microphones record mice singing

Listening with tiny ears...

Researchers in Vienna are using ultrasonic microphones to listen to mice singing, which is normally inaudible to human ears.

06/16/2017

NOISE SOURCE | Music of Sound

New SFX Library from Tim @ HISS anda ROAR!

http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/noise-source

I have also just published the results from the first HISSandaROAR Sound Design Challenge, check out the winning 25 entries

04/01/2017

Doug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Desert III

Quiet and peace

PSAD Synthetic Desert III belongs to a yet-to-be-realized series of installations conceived by Doug Wheeler during the late 1960s and ’70s.

03/29/2017

dadamachines is an open toolkit for making robotic musical instruments

dadamachines is an open toolkit for making robotic musical instruments

There was a time when using controllers to play music was still novel. Building them was a technically complicated task, limited to a handful of individuals – most of whom had to keep solving the same basic problem of how to get started over and over again. Now, we know, that’s no longer the case. T...

03/29/2017

The Tyranny Of Reverb

Randy Thom on the seductive power of reverb!

In the almost forty years I’ve been mixing films I’ve seen and heard and tried all kinds of approaches to processing sounds. As I’ve said elsewhere, including my little piece on …

05/30/2016

Sunday Sound Thought 20 – Pulling Focus | Designing Sound

http://designingsound.org/2016/05/sunday-sound-thought-20-pulling-focus/

Posted by Shaun Farley on May 15, 2016 | 0 comments Sunday Sound Thought 20 – Pulling Focus As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. T...

05/30/2016

Next HISSandaROAR Library

http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/next-hissandaroar-library

Release next week!

05/30/2016

UnionDocs

Soundwalks... a great way to start listening to the world!

Radio producers, media & sound artists, app designers and creative writers: join us for Sound Walks: Stories Taking Place, a 3-day seminar on site-specific storytelling. To produce a successful site-specific audio program many skills are required, from research to app development, in addition to a considerable dose of observation and creativity. Led by poet and podcaster Pejk Malinovski, participants will hone these practices through workshops, field trips and a work-in-progress critique. Early deadline: April 1st. http://www.uniondocs.org/2016-04-22-stories-taking-place/

07/31/2013

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07/31/2013

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02/24/2012

4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH - Official Trailer

I worked on the sound edit of this film with Neil Benezra over the summer. Probably in theaters in LA & NYC soon. Great performance by Dafoe, dark strange story (it is Abel Ferraraafter all…).

In a large apartment high above the city lives our couple. They're in love. She's a painter, he's a successful actor. Just a normal afternoon - except that t...