Combine the best roots/reggae/dub music with a perfect summer location and you have a good description for 48 hours of bliss – otherwise known as the Raglan Soundsplash…. last week still feels about 2 months ago…. check the location: sunset…
Fastest Indian in Japan
That Burt Munro sure gets around! Worlds Fastest Indian is currently screening in Japan official japanese site
touch the sound
I mentioned it in a comment somewhere but a DVD I recently got from amazon.com that I have really enjoyed is Touch The Sound, a doco about percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf. One of my favourite bits in…
walking in snow
Its summer outside, but inside it sounds like winter – thanks to a huge bag of rock salt! Someone told me adding coco-pops helps emulate the sound of snow as you get the crunch of crusty ice but so far…
dub reggae killed my bassbin!
doh! last night i blew the speaker in my bass amp there were some quite beautful sparks coming out of it at one point but for fear of blowing the amp I hit the off switch pretty quick… hmmmm get…
bzzzzzt….. tink, tink
ok, guess the instrument: clue 1: its a percussion instrument clue 2: its not electric
30 days of night
A new year, a new project and this one looks to be seriously wicked! The film is based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles and is being produced by Rob Tapert and Chloe Smith for GhostHouse Pictures and directed…
Sound Design Book List
Here are the best books that I own & reccomend on the subject of film sound design! The Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound by David Lewis Yewdall – if you only buy one book, I would buy this one.…
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 –…
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…