“MEXICO CITY (AP) – Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand. But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When…
SD101: Tuning Instruments & Sound Effects…
I’ve never had any trouble tuning instruments, but by instruments I really mean guitar or bass… An electric guitar was my very first instrument & I busted a few strings learning how to tune it… then followed a number of…
So….
What is it that you guys do for a living exactly? And what have you got against that pumpkin???
MUSIC & NATURE
I’ve just started reading a book which is actually written by quite a few sound & music liminaries under the loose topic of Music & Nature. It is edited by David Rotherberg and Marta Ulvaeus and is divided into four…
I LOVE new music/New Music I LOVE
Generally speaking, its a good day when I become aware of some new music, as in music I have never heard before & rapidly love… if I zoomed out for a very wide shot of the cultural planet I would…
Buying (& Selling) Sound Effects
Presuming you work in post have you ever bought sound effects? If so, where did you buy them? I’m primarily talking about sound effects as opposed to music samples or libraries, although these have some aspects in common… And even…
Video Conferencing: the future of collaboration?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASKnLj2Pp8I
Back from a quick retreat!
Phew I’m fully recovered now after 4 days off in New Plymouth… Attempted to record some bamboo forest knock/knocking sounds but despite having two bamboo groves lined up to record there was NO WIND!!!!! A cold front was forecast &…
Feeling Generative?
if so, then I suggest you check out Nodal Pictured above is my first noodle with Nodal – I set up a really basic pattern in Nodal & told Olga in LIVE to play whatever MIDI came its way… Nodals…
Doppler Plugin Videos in stereo via vimeo
Finally got around to uploading my Doppler plugin video clips to Vimeo, seeing as audio on youtube video clips is still back in 1920s (Alan Dower Blumlein invented stereo recording in 1930), so here are the clips related to this…
Freedom from distraction
Whether its a distraction or not, the internet in all its uses is a time consumer and nothing can make you lose a train of thought faster than an ichat alert or email arrival… so if you need some time…
Optical Sound…. & Live Cinema? (updated)
I’m doing a workshop tomorrow with uk artist Guy Sherwin on ‘optical sound & live cinema’ – I’ll post tomorrow with some of what I hopefully learn and/or think, but for now heres a genius piece (sans soundtrack?) of his…
Lens vs Microphone (& why i love myopia)
My fundamental creative core is sonic, make no mistake: whether its sound, music or that glorious blurry region inbetween; my ears are my primary sense. If it came down to some apocalyptic trade off of losing a sense & surviving…
Talking to Film Composers
When you are final mixing a film, lunch is always interesting – simply because everyone involved gets to relax for a bit & shoot the breeze… And sometimes sitting by the composer at lunch is incredibly interesting (as in creatively…
Temp Mix – almost finished!
Phew what a monster!!! This has been the biggest temp mix I have ever done, just check out the two PT sessions we were running live – I’ll explain the whys & wherefores below… Temp Mix FX and Foley Session…
Live Looping with Andrew Bird
How to make a simply beautiful string arrangement with a looping pedal… and equally beautiful when he drops it back in later in the song… artist site here
Show of Hands
Show of Hands is a film by Anthony McCarten that we completed sound design for earlier this year, so I was thrilled to hear the other day that it had been accepted to screen at the Montreal Film Festival. The…
Second best use for an iPod Touch/iPhone?
Ok, you would have to be a ProTools user to agree with me, but even a year ago if you tried to tell me I could remote control ProTools using my iPod I would have laughed – yeah right… but…
Break glass with your voice?
Who else would you ask to prove if its actually possible? Mythbusters of course!
The Six Stages of Film Production
Thankfully I havent been in any situations where this could be applied but it made me smile to read it… The Six Stages of Film Production 1. Wild Enthusiasm 2. Total Confusion 3. Utter Despair 4. Search for the Guilty…