Mix Magazine published a new interesting interview with sound designer Paul N.J Ottosson, Academy Award Nominee for Sound Editing and Sound Mixing for his amazing work on "The Hurt Locker". Did you do much original effects recording? A fair amount. I also had a lot of my own library material that I’d recorded through the years. Ray Beckett also recorded a lot out in the … [Read more...]
"Social Sound Design", New Q&A Site for Collaboration Between Sound Designers
Andrew Spitz, from {sound + design} has launched a new website called "Social Sound Design", a place oriented to all kind of sound guys who wants to collaborate by questions and answers. Andrew said: Sound design has many facets. As sound designers, we may step into the shoes of an artist, programmer, editor, storyteller or engineer. Because we play so many roles, we may not … [Read more...]
Interviews with Cinema Audio Society Award Winners, Including Career Achievement Honoree to Randy Thom
SoundWorks Collection has released more than 10 videos featuring interviews and exclusive content from the Cinema Audio Society Awards, including Career Achievement Honoree to Randy Thom. The Cinema Audio Society consists of Sound Mixers and Associates from the Film and Television Industries. The Society was founded to create a proper channel of communication between the … [Read more...]
Exclusive Interview with Michael Kamper, Audio Lead of BioShock 2
Here is a great talk I had with Michael Kamper, Audio Lead of BioShock 2. Let's read: Designing Sound: Hi Michael, first of all would be great to hear something about your career... How you get started with sound design? And how do you get involved with the video games industry? Michael Kamper: I was always fascinated by how movies were made and I would always watch the … [Read more...]
Heart
"It's about heart" -Alan Splet … [Read more...]
Charles Deenen Special: Reader Questions
Here are the answers to the questions you made to Charles Deenen. Even if you don't made any question to him, you could find really great infromation related to different topics. (some questions are combined and/or edited down) Designing Sound Readers: 1a. Every single company I look at, and every website I go to always says the same thing; “Applicants must have at least 3 … [Read more...]
Charles Deenen Special: 100 Whooshes in 2 Minutes
Every sound designer has to make new whooshes in record time. Whenever I’m stuck in that position I've always tried to come up with some quick automated ways. A long time ago I made a template that allows me to quickly make new whooshes, and on top of it it’s incredibly fun to “operate” since you get to actually orchestra the whooshes in realtime. I’m still using this template … [Read more...]