Music of Sound

I know its been a long time since I did this, but here we go again. I’d like to offer a year long virtual internship to a maximum of three people, preferably to one local and two international people… I work as a film sound designer/editor so thats what I will be mentoring – if game audio or music sound design/synth programming is your primary goal in life then please do not apply. I will need to see evidence that you have already started along the path of becoming a post production sound editor…

The deadline for applications will be on November 30, and I’ll confirm the interns by January 3rd, which will be when the year of mentoring starts for them….

If you want to be sent the application then email me with email subject: “INTERN APPLICATION” and I will send you the application questions etc later this week.

NOTE: Application deadline is November 30

Feel free to read the process from last time:

http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/need-a-mentor
http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/re-the-virtual-intern-update-1
http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/re-the-virtual-intern-update-2
http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/the-virtual-intern-update-3
http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/virtual-interns-update-4-chosen
http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/intern-applications-mute-fx-clip

> The ecstasy of influence

 

 

 

> Feel like re-tuning one of your synths? Try Lil Miss Scale Oven

 

> Two updates in the same day! Max 6 and Pixelmator 2

 

> Age-appropriate Music?

 

 

> Between Music and Sound Design: an Interview with Composer Cliff Martinez

 

> microscopic art: lives within a drop of water

 

 

> Great art print of Moog modular – check the glow in the dark roll-over version

 

SoundTorch seems quite a wacky way to find/audition sounds from your library… it’d especially be fun if you were browsing loops of the same tempo = instant improv! Appears to be PC only…

 

> Maybe the most astute comments re ProTools 11, HDX and AAX

 

> Just ordered one of these great little Nano oscilloscopes for some modular synth eye candy!

 

> Since its Friday, here is your (3 minute) moment of zen:

 

More info on 20Hz by Semiconductor here

 

> Ernst Karel: “It’s not a matter of capturing a sound that was there- it’s a matter of making the microphones do something interesting…”

> Chris Watson: “The great thing is that rarely do you get a second chance. That was one of the things I liked about field recording. It’s like sports photography. You get one opportunity, and you can’t say, “Go back and do that again.” I find that process continually exciting and stimulating.”

Both quotes from Turning the World Into Art: The world of field recordings with Chris Watson, Ernst Karel, and Art Rosenbaum

 

> I am so going here on my next trip to Japan

 

 

> Fantastic blog/archive of retro/historical audio products: Preservation Sound

 

> Six (facetious) reasons to love motion capture: “The defining aspect of a motion capture film is that, at last, it enables every character to have truly lifeless eyes….”

 

> Designer Paul Cocksedge moulds discarded vinyl records into a range of acoustic amplifiers for smartphones in a project called Change the Record

 

more BadLipReading

 

> So ProTools is 20 years old and the iPod just turned 10? It is equally hard to believe this song is now 30 years old

 

 

 

So how many iPods have you owned in ten years? I’m on my fifth…

 

ex Colossal via Laughing Squid

 

 

by Escif

 

 

from album Keys (A comprehensive collection of contemporary piano compositions)

 

 

Martin Messier: “…the basic sounds used in this performance consist entirely of the acoustic noises produced by 8 sewing machines, amplified by means of microcontacts and process by a computer.

the microcontroller system also enable to use the sewing machines to affect certain parameters of the acoustic sound. the wheel, for exemple, can be assigned to the output volume, etc. machine’s mechanism can be activated by remote, using microcontrollers and a computer, without the need for any other human intervention…..”

 

 

Interview with John Carpenter on the sound of fear and his horror movie scores..