Music of Sound

Sound of Noise is a feature film by the team who created the excellent Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers

What a fantastic challenge the film must have been for the sound team:
Philippe Amouroux – sound re-recording mixer
Thibault Arnold – sound re-recording mixer
Gábor Pasztor – sound re-recording mixer
Nicolas Becker – sound supervisor
Aleksander Karshikoff – sound editor, sound re-recording mixer
Eddie Axberg – boom operator
Lasse Liljeholm – sound recordist
Alexis Jung – assistant sound effects recordist
Ulf Olausson – foley artist
Robert Sörling – sound

thanks David!

> Interesting! Sanken CO-100 microphone, with frequency response up to 100kHz!

> Lightning filmed at 9000fps!

> Let the sound breathe

> I’ve read a fair amount of Michel Chions books but never heard any of his music until now
harrowing!

> Interesting discovery about the main theme by Hans Zimmer in Inception:

via

> Advanced Riskology

> What do you think about in the shower?

>Autotune the zoo?

> If you like the RiceBoy Sleeps album, check out this making of:

> Did you know Leon Theremin also made a drum machine? Me neither….

“Ancestor of the Drum Machine: Leon Theremin’s Rhythmicon
The Russian inventor Leon Theremin is best known for the eponymous instrument he created around 1919. But another invention of Theremin’s is perhaps even more prophetic of later developments in electronic music: the Rhythmicon, produced in 1931 at the behest of the American composer Henry Cowell. This device allowed for the real-time generation of complex rhythmic patterns thought to be unperformable by humans. Each successive note on the keyboard triggered a division of the basic beat in whole number ratios: the second key beating twice for each basic beat, the third key beating three times, and so on.
This video shows the Russian scholar Andrey Smirnov demonstrating the how the Rhythmicon is played. The device shown in the video is likely the later version, developed in the 1960s and now housed in the Theremin Center in Moscow.”

So firstly congrats to all the recordists who have uploaded their material – what a truly BRILLIANT collection it is rapidly becoming. The total currently sits at 70GB and tonight I have sent an email to everyone who committed to the project but hasn’t uploaded as yet to clarify whether their material is coming soon or not.

In the meantime I have been checking files, metadata etc and I have two topics for discussion here:

1. How best to organise the library. While most people access their libraries through searches using SoundMiner etc I believe it is still valuable to organise the folder structure logically. So I’d appreciate your thoughts on the matter – as a contributor or a potential user of the library.

Currently the library remains in the form it was uploaded
ie THE DOORS/Recordist Name/Folder for each door

I imagine re-organising them by type, so for example
THE DOORS/APARTMENT/Folder for each Apartment door
THE DOORS/HOUSE/Folder for each House door
THE DOORS/KITCHEN/Folder for each Kitchen door
THE DOORS/OFFICE/Folder for each Office door

Is that how you imagine it being presented?
Each individual door folder is still tagged with the recordists name….
Possible issues: I seem to remember there being a limit to the number of folders you can have in one directory before the OS becomes bogged down – is that true?

2. The final library will be approx 100GB which means it is beyond the realistic size of a download. Currently the largest Flash drives are 35GB. I investigated BluRay disks but I am not sure everyone has access to BluRay readers, plus the blank disks are still reasonably costly. Which leads me to believe the only way to deliver this library is via a small USB hard drive. I’d appreciate your thoughts on this – are there any options I havent thought of? And what are a good reliable model of small USB drives?

I’m sure there are plenty of avante garde guitarists who do this as a matter of course, but as Mike Niederquell says on vimeo: “We recorded some power tools through a guitar pickup that was then sent through a Marshall stack. We used these recordings for a lot of the transformations and servo sounds in the video game Transformers: War for Cybertron”

nice one!

I just enquired about trialling a copy of MiniMiner and was made aware of SoundMiner HD, MiniMiner’s imminent replacement, which will have the same price of US$199. There will also be a new SoundMiner HD PLUS version US$399 that includes PT spot to timeline and other added features that the read only MiniMiner interface doesn’t have… And its due for release in approximately a month! Check it out: