Music 4 Games has done an interview with Diego Stocco to talk about his profession and the Sound Design/Music Composition of The Conduit, a new first-person shooter exclusively yo the Nintendo Wii. Diegoo is an composer and sound designer. He produces music for Spectrasonics, and is one of the principal sound designers of Atmosphere and the amazing core library of Stylus RMX … [Read more...]
The Sound of Pixar's UP
With a $68.2 million opening weekend and a beautiful story, UP has become one of the most representative Pixar's movies. Here we have grouped some information about the music and sound of the film. Staff Directors. Pete Docter and Bob Peterson Music Mixing - Michael Semanick Effects Mixing & Sound Design - Tom Myers Sound Supervising - Michael Silvers Sound Mix: SDDS … [Read more...]
GameSoundcon, the First Conference Dedicated to the Learning of Games Sound and Music
GameSoundCon is the first conference to game audio developers and audio professionals who want to learn the necessary skills to be successful in the game industry. An intensive two-day seminar for composers, sound designers and audio professionals, teaching the unique creative, technical and business challenges essential to work in the game music and game sound industry. … [Read more...]
Sound Design Essentials: Websites
Everything have a start point. Here is the first part of a series of essential resources, sites, tutorials, and tools related with this funny thing called sound design. I begin with 30 websites for learning sound design for games, film and interactive media. General purpose KVR Audio - The Internet's number one news and information resource for open standard audio plug-ins. … [Read more...]
Designing Sound: Welcome
"In this age of visual culture, it's important to remember that sound is half the picture.” (William Whittington, Sound Design & Science Fiction) Here is a little space on the internet to gather information and articles about sound design and all sorts of news and announces that relates to the art of storytelling with sound. I hope you find something useful. And of course, … [Read more...]
Video: The Soundmen
Couldn't resist posting this 1950 documentary short TCM has been airing. Simply called "The Soundmen" it documents the trip sound took from production to print back in the day. I love that last quote from the dapper looking production mixer. "The talking motion picture of today has brought to the screen new heights of expression, and we the sound men will continue to perfect … [Read more...]
Exclusive Interview with Jana Vance and Dennie Thorpe, Foley Artist on Pixar's UP
Pixar's "Up" was the first ever animated film to open the Cannes Film Festival. Though screened out of competition I believe it could have easily won the Palme d'Or. The film mixed up at Skywalker Sound with Michael Semanick and Tom Myers on dialog/music and effects respectively. Myers also shared sound supervising credit with Michael Silvers and the pair both worked on … [Read more...]