How come you can shut your eyes but not your ears? A crucial skill not often discussed by people who work with sound is that of being able to focus your ears… Most people understand the idea of focusing your…
recording metallic resonance
I’ve been recording & then messing with some lovely resonant sounds generated by various bits of metal, suspended by cotton thread… the largest have been some chromatically tuned wind chimes that I just got from magnolia windchimes in nelson –…
ADR
Everyone has experienced a bad ADR session, but I have never heard an actor so eloquently insult the director as Orsen Welles does while attempting to voice this commercial!
recording vehicle FX
Its such fun to get out of the studio & do some FX recording! This a Ford Bronco V8 we recorded yesterday for our current film project: Bridge To Terabithia. We managed to track this vehicle down via TradeMe, since…
black sheep
The last film we completed sound design for just had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, apparently to much ‘laughter & shrieking’ which is appropriate seeing as the film is a black comedy/horror by the name of Black…
I call architecture frozen music
and so does Goethe in fact he said it first I just borrowed the phrase So…. as the title says, this blog is about ‘the music of sound’ ie my random thoughts on the lovely way air molecules vibrate. Most…