> 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.”
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Theremin also made a Cello-like instrument. It actually appears in an Edgard Varese piece. Really strange instrument!
disappointed you don’t have much to say about the inception sound design. I thought it was the best I’ve heard in years.
It was an entertaining film but not on my top 50 or even 100 films of all time… It had a very good soundtrack, which you would expect from a film of this scale of budget but I grew tired of the relentless gun fights & explosions – much of that action felt unmotivated & unnecessary. I guess I prefer a film with a little more restraint…. And for a film about dreams it was surprisingly un-dream like…