> A game for movie fans

> It was 21 years ago…

> Pitch to frequency? A handy app for tuning/finding resonance etc…

> Follow sound artist Stephen Vitiello as he embarks on a 300km odyssey around the rugged Kimberley, Australia coast capturing sounds…

> The Tone Generation, fascinating podcasts for people interested in history of synth

> Interesting interview with Johnny Greenwood re his score for Norwegian Wood, adapted from Haruki Murikamis book… Love the description of his first spot session with the director Anh Hung Tran: “We’d watch the film together, and he’d pause the film at a certain point and say ‘Look at [that character’s] face here. Write some music about that expression'” and also; “I’m happy to write 10 times too much music,” he says, noting that both P.T.Anderson and Tran used about a quarter of what he produced. What he refuses to do is label a soundtrack as his attempt at a “solo album”, “because it’s so wrapped up in the film, which is where I’m happy to be” – can’t wait to see & hear the film…

Bird Imitation Experiment? Read more here

> Thanks for the kind words & thoughts re the Christchurch earthquake – I went to secondary school, university & film school in Christchurch – these photos show some of the scale of devastation – photo 11 is a perfect metaphor for what happened. But buildings can be rebuilt – it is the lives lost…