Combine the best roots/reggae/dub music with a perfect summer location and you have a good description for 48 hours of bliss – otherwise known as the Raglan Soundsplash…. last week still feels about 2 months ago…. check the location: sunset…
Fastest Indian in Japan
That Burt Munro sure gets around! Worlds Fastest Indian is currently screening in Japan official japanese site
touch the sound
I mentioned it in a comment somewhere but a DVD I recently got from amazon.com that I have really enjoyed is Touch The Sound, a doco about percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf. One of my favourite bits in…
walking in snow
Its summer outside, but inside it sounds like winter – thanks to a huge bag of rock salt! Someone told me adding coco-pops helps emulate the sound of snow as you get the crunch of crusty ice but so far…
dub reggae killed my bassbin!
doh! last night i blew the speaker in my bass amp there were some quite beautful sparks coming out of it at one point but for fear of blowing the amp I hit the off switch pretty quick… hmmmm get…
bzzzzzt….. tink, tink
ok, guess the instrument: clue 1: its a percussion instrument clue 2: its not electric
BLACK SHEEP FX Recording 4
Aside from vegetables we also did a wood FX recording and some cloth ripping FX. We managed to find an old chest of drawers at the junkstore for $10, plus a selection of various blankets, towells, sheets etc for tearing…
BLACK SHEEP FX Recording 3
Ever since doing Worlds Fastest Indian I really enjoy recording vehicle sound effects and Black Sheep had two main vehicles we needed to augment – a good old Landrover and a classic Morris 1300… Luckily we got access to them…
30 days of night
A new year, a new project and this one looks to be seriously wicked! The film is based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles and is being produced by Rob Tapert and Chloe Smith for GhostHouse Pictures and directed…
BLACK SHEEP FX Recording 2
For the sounds of violence & gore in the film I decided to do a major studio based FX recording session involving as wide a selection of sound generating vegetables as we could muster. I did this for a project…
Sound Design Book List
Here are the best books that I own & reccomend on the subject of film sound design! The Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound by David Lewis Yewdall – if you only buy one book, I would buy this one.…
BLACK SHEEP FX Recording 1
We did quite a lot of sound effects recording for Black Sheep and I was just sorting through the photos & thought I’d post a bunch of them… it was a hell fun project! Sheep recording While I had a…
BLACK SHEEP TRAILER ONLINE
The trailer for black comedy/horror film BLACK SHEEP, which we did the sound design for June/July/August 2006 is on their website now, or heres a direct link to the quicktime movie.
Ambience recording Dec 2006
I havent processed these recordings yet either, but here are a few snapshots of ambience recording locations from my travels…. The east coast of the South Island, near the Ashburton river mouth. Lake Te Anau, Fiordland – the water was…
Impulse Responses Dec 2006
I managed to capture a few impulse responses for Altiverb while away on holiday. I haven’t gone through the recordings yet but once I have I’ll upload them and then update this post… My nephew Morris firing my .22 starter…
my remote studio
While on holiday in Takaka I set up a temporary music studio, much thanks to Gaylene Preston who loaned me her cottage & woolshed… its such a peaceful spot The woolshed was the perfect size to set up in &…
happy new year!
I finished 2006 by going on a road trip around the South Island of New Zealand. The main destination in the far south was Fiordland, quite probably the most remote spot in the whole country! I went on a boat…
Mixing a film (part 3)
Oh my god, i still dont quite believe it, but we have finished mixing! After what feels like an eternity spent in a dark occasionally LOUD room (& was probably actually 4 weeks) we have final mixed all the reels!…
why birds sing
this book looks intriging, more info on this site apparently birds sing in their sleep as well!?!
Bridge To Terabithia Trailer
The trailer for the film we are currently mixing has just been released on the internet, download quicktime (31MB) here