Comments on: Sound Design and Music: Diluting the Distinctions, Strengthening the Art Form https://designingsound.org/2013/03/13/sound-design-and-music-diluting-the-distinctions-strengthening-the-art-form/ Art and technique of sound design Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:05:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 By: Connor's AIM110.1 Blog https://designingsound.org/2013/03/13/sound-design-and-music-diluting-the-distinctions-strengthening-the-art-form/#comment-592558 Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:05:07 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=22134#comment-592558 […] https://designingsound.org/2013/03/13/sound-design-and-music-diluting-the-distinctions-strengthening-… […]

]]> By: Dolores Catherino https://designingsound.org/2013/03/13/sound-design-and-music-diluting-the-distinctions-strengthening-the-art-form/#comment-532766 Fri, 05 May 2017 16:12:24 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=22134#comment-532766 Thank you for this fascinating article!
It seems inevitable that the creative possibilities within sound design (timbre, spectra, immersive/spatial qualities) and polychromatic music (micro pitch-color) will converge creating even wider expanses of sound art exploration.

It is fascinating to ponder the implications of creating a new, integrated musical/sonic language to simplify (and make more intuitive) the crossroads of each unique artistic focus and approach to aesthetic sound.

Historically, the elements of musical emphasis have been melodic, harmonic (polyphonic), rhythmic and timbral (orchestration). With recent technological advances, we can expand upon these traditional areas and add new expansive elements of micro pitch-color, harmonic (overtone spectra), sound color (spectral in the largest sense) and multidimensional, spatial/immersive auditory qualities into sound art.

Exciting times for the sound arts!

]]> By: Deborah Saunders https://designingsound.org/2013/03/13/sound-design-and-music-diluting-the-distinctions-strengthening-the-art-form/#comment-420549 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 05:04:40 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=22134#comment-420549 This is a very informative article. I had no idea that a Composer and Sound Design Engineer were separate. I have always thought that the composer created it all. I have learned something new today.

I imagine that finding a Composer and a Sound Design Engineer that can collaborate well together is like finding a diamond in the ruff. I would love to find that diamond!

I have been a musician for many years and I have used sound design in the past and present. As a child, I would hear the car windshield wipers and start tapping out a rhythm. I would do this with several different sounds I would hear and still do to this day.

I just started working on a song last week (during Summer break) using rhythmic sound effects in the Intro to evoke a sense of fear. I want to be a part of strengthening the art form. Thank you for writing this wonderful article.

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]]> By: Doron https://designingsound.org/2013/03/13/sound-design-and-music-diluting-the-distinctions-strengthening-the-art-form/#comment-17335 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:06:43 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=22134#comment-17335 In reply to Harold “Hippy” Manning.

Thanks for the comments guys, and Hippy, glad you are well (good to hear from you).

Mike, in the end, I believe it comes down to the knowledge and creativity of the sound “organizer” or artist and our abilities to be multi-faceted is only going to further our knowledge and creativity when designing sound.

Charlie, I definitely know the feeling, I’ve been on the other end as well, where I was the sound designer (and editor, and re-recording mixer), but I was not the composer. Sometimes, the music shows up and it just clashes with the sound design and dialogue and creates dissonance and just doesn’t work. Now you are in the studio with the producer(s), director (possibly, and possibly others) and the audio is just nowhere near as powerful or cohesive (the music, dialogue, and sound design mixed together). It makes the re-recording job harder to pull off well, and sadly, it will impact the outcome of the project, regardless of all the massaging, tuning, remixing of the music that you attempt to do quickly while trying to mix the project and have a good (yet timely) finished product.

Collaboration, knowledge, and creativity are really the keys in my mind.

]]> By: Harold "Hippy" Manning https://designingsound.org/2013/03/13/sound-design-and-music-diluting-the-distinctions-strengthening-the-art-form/#comment-12606 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:18:55 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=22134#comment-12606 Well Teach, it has been a couple of months that I was in your class and you are still teaching me new things. This article has definitely answered questions that I have had but wasn’t quit sure how to ask them. Good article.

]]> By: Mike Nieves https://designingsound.org/2013/03/13/sound-design-and-music-diluting-the-distinctions-strengthening-the-art-form/#comment-11466 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:48:49 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=22134#comment-11466 Love the insight. Well written. I take it in the end it takes a highly experienced talent or a talent who can work with the highly experienced.

]]> By: Charlie Griffin https://designingsound.org/2013/03/13/sound-design-and-music-diluting-the-distinctions-strengthening-the-art-form/#comment-11411 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:48:51 +0000 https://designingsound.org/?p=22134#comment-11411 Great article, Doron, and I can’t applaud enough the notion that the practitioners of these disciplines would benefit from greater communication if not outright collaboration. About a decade ago I scored a short film with many elements of sound design as part of my score. It was an absurdist story about a hitman who worked for an office of assassins that was forced without explanation to begin doing menial office work. I used sounds derived from spinning disk drives, scissors, staplers, printing presses and more to make my score. Little did I know it, but without telling me, the director had also engaged a sound designer to work on the film too. Because I had no knowledge of the other guy’s activities until post-production, there was no way to avoid the unfortunate reality: we both naturally chose to work towards hitting some of the same key moments in the film. The absolute absence of collaboration had, in my opinion, disastrous results: we sonically stepped all over each other’s work. Sigh. Bravo, Doron. May the conversation continue!

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