Scientific American has a super-cool article detailing audio technology from days long past. Speaking tubes, phonographs and and even a more recent "tree turn-table" are discussed. Incoming blurb: In the early 18oos, Jean-Baptiste Bio had experimented with how sound travels through long tubes, using the water pipes of Paris, and found that the confines of the piping served to … [Read more...]
“Find Music In Everything” Sound Design Competition with iZotope’s Iris and Sonic TALK
The Challenge Create an original, synth-ready sound from one or more audio sources using iZotope Iris. With Iris, the sonic possibilities are endless. Dig in and show us your most unconventional sample, your creepiest ambience, or your boldest lead. Better yet - surprise us! We want to see your creative side! Entries can be entered in any of the following categories to win … [Read more...]
Sonic Salute: Factory Machinery Ambiences
I had the recent pleasure to receive a copy of Factory Machinery Ambiences from Mikkel Nielsen over at Sonic Salute. It's a pretty cool atmospheric selection of engines and motors and pounding metal. Some blurbs from the library page: Sounds range from plastic foundries, casting machines, and machinery alarms, to giant textile processing units, and medical equipment … [Read more...]
New Sound Lab – Hard Drives
Tor Johnson over at New Sound Lab has a fantastic new sound library out called NSL008 HARD DRIVES. I have played around with the sounds and they are superb. This is certainly a must-have and most-certainly something I wish I had on a recent project! The facts ma'am: This library features recordings of four hard disk drives (3.5 inch - 5400 & 7200 RPM). All essential hard … [Read more...]
The Pro Sound Effects Audio Olympic Competition
The good people over at Pro Sound Effects are hosting The Pro Sound Effects Audio Olympic Competition. It sounds pretty neat: If you're caught up in the thrill of the Summer Olympics, and itching to represent your sound designer flag, have we ever got news for you. Pro Sound Effects is hosting its own Olympics competition through next Friday, August 10th. To win the gold, you … [Read more...]
Sinister Resonance – Rob Bridgett
The field sepulchra blog has a fantastic post by Rob Bridgett about recorded silences. Blurb: Listening back to many of these recordings, it is clear they are still recordings of ‘something’, there is activity that just about be heard in nearly all of these recordings. What that barely perceptible activity is, I usually have no idea, and even though it could just be traffic, … [Read more...]
THE SOUND AND MUSIC OF THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
Visionary Director Christopher Nolan returns for the final chapter of the Batman saga. In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection video we profile the sound and music team including Composer Hans Zimmer and Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer Richard King. Special thank to SoundWorks Collection for putting this together. … [Read more...]