tired of virtual instruments but dont have room in your house for the real thing? Check this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlxepnkGMRo

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ok I know I’ve ranted about it previously but Yamaha are slowly releasing more info… & simultaneously both odd & inspiring is the fact/my opninion that of the three musicians they give prototypes to for trials, two I know of…

Last day of the festival today & I’m off to see The Future Is Unwritten, a doco about Joe Strummer & The Clash… Last night I saw Gus Van Sants new film: Paranoid Park, and while I really liked it…

I’m a little excited about this – I like the look/feel of it as an alternate musical MIDI controller & am sincerely hoping they might be for sale when I visit Tokyo in October. Estimates seem to be 500 uk…

YAY! Tonight at the Film Festival is a screening of New Zealand animation – Homegrown Animation and amongst the short films is a stop motion short called METAMUTT TO MARS created by a dear friend of mine Ian Powell. This…

Wow! I am still processing it but last night I saw David Lynch’s new film Inland Empire (previous rant & trailers here) & WOW! What a film!!! It was a maybe little too long in duration but if i was…

Get More Terror at TerrorFeed.com And first day of premixes! This week: atmos premixes (3 days) and violence (2 days) Next week: vehicles (2 days) and general FX (3 days) Week three: foley premix (3 days) and vamprie premix (2…

The New Zealand Film Festival is on here at the moment & i’ve got a dozen tickets booked – highlights so far include a couple of very good animated short films & a documentary that was simultaneously sad & beautiful……

Following up on the LINE YOUR ROOM UP post a while ago, for this post I have called on a brilliant dialogue/ADR Supervising Sound Editor & friend Ray Beentjes “I work with film dialog a lot and started getting upset…

I am well aware it is standard practice to mix films in stems – its a simple matter of busing & monitoring the buses combined correctly. So for example when we final mix a film it is usual pratice to…

ah the endless task of keeping software up to date… this error message made me laugh – very zen!

DailyFilmDose blog has a great collection (with youtube links) of the best ‘long takes’ (ie an uninteruppted shot with no picture edits) in cinema history… Some I remember vividly eg the start of The Player, that fight scene in Old…

check out this video of a Tesla coil being modulated by some kind of control unit which is calibrated to generate synth like tones – wouldnt be out of place in a Daft Punk song! Found via the excellent Matrixsynth…

Finished temp mix #3 for 30 Days of Night, layed back & checked the HD master, then raced in & Gilbert Lake & Mike Hedges mixed my NZ Film Festival logo theme! 15 seconds, 21 tracks & my virtual orchestra…

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half a step sideways… I’m working on the music/sound for the NZ Film Festival logo & nothing says TAKE A BREAK more than an error message containing references to dumb scifi movies – Neo? WTF?

Reuters reports today of a Glawegian artist who has set up a hydrophone (ie underwater mic) beside one Europes largest glaciers, as it slowly melts & succumbs to global warming: “It is sad to see a vanishing world.” Share the…

best use for an old piano? watch & see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F92FQdnLlSc & some weird english geezer with too much time & money… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY You’d think if he had as much money as the annoying voice over claims he could afford to…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Q3PdT6GFQ watch/download much better resolution here