On the top of Brooklyn Hill, here in Wellington, there is a huge wind turbine which apparently generates enough power to supply 300 homes (especially during a Southerly!) While there is much debate about the visual aesthetics of wind farms…
crashing cars for a living
What to do with an old car that still goes, but the idea of it actually passing a warrant of fitness is less likely than discovering a perpetual motion engine in a junk store in Westport? I believe one of…
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…
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…
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…
why birds sing
this book looks intriging, more info on this site apparently birds sing in their sleep as well!?!
capturing the wind (part 1)
Obsessions are funny things… obviously one of mine is sound, which I appreciate is a fairly broad obsession, so to be more specific about it I love to try & capture the wind – not in a balloon or anything…
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 –…
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…