Sound Designer and Composer Diego Stocco has realized an amazing performance called Music From A Tree. Let's see his explanation: "In the garden of my house there’s a tree with lots of randomly grown twigs. It looks odd and nice at the same time. One day I asked myself if I could create a piece of music with it. To tune the tree I picked a fundamental note and tuned the twigs … [Read more...]
Field Recording, A Beginner’s Guide (Pt 1)
AudioTuts+ again with a new tutorial/guide, this time about the basics of Field Recording, with useful information about this sound world. Field recording seems a dark art to many sound designers and composers, yet it is one way to create rich libraries of original material. Through some simple guidance and advice, this two part tutorial will give you a brief introduction to … [Read more...]
Gary Rydstrom Special: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
One of the most important Gary Rydstrom's work was the sound of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, directed by James Cameron and distributed by Tri-Star Movies. Terminator 2 won 4 Oscars and another 19 wins & 18 nominations. In sound won an Academy Award for Best Sound, Academy Award for Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing and BAFTA Award for Best Sound Some time ago, Gary talk … [Read more...]
Interview: Noah Timan
KIDINTHEFRONTROW.COM interviewed New York based production sound mixer Noah Timan recently. Timan who wrapped on Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" a while back, is very honest and forthcoming with his answers one of which is abridged below. KITFR: "Do you ever find times when the director chooses something visual, or a performance, over the importance of the sound … [Read more...]
Basic Synthesis Tutorials and Videos
Jason Timothy has published a really useful post on his web The Music Software Training Blog talking about the basics of synthesis, explaining several types and the main elemetns of synthesis. "I wanted to give you some basic concepts to synthesis that you can quickly use to better your sound design abilities. My hope is that I am able to help people who haven’t yet had the … [Read more...]
The IMAX Projector Sounds Off
Reader slash IMAX projectionist Derek Helmer, sent me a link to his blog which features some posts in and about the IMAX projection booth he works in (I've posted some of my favorites below). I am a huge fan of feature film presentation in IMAX, even with the recent hub-bub about their retro-fitted theaters, hopefully IMAX gets that screen size discrepancy and proper charge … [Read more...]
Gary Rydstrom Special: Jurassic Park
Let's begin the Gary Rydstrom Special with Jurassic Park, an Academy Award-winning movie directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1993 marking the debut of DTS in motion picture theatres on 876 screens. There is an article at MPSE taken from a special event called "Big Movie Sound Effects: Behind the Scenes and Out of the Speakers” presented in Hollywood by Dane A. Davis … [Read more...]