Guest Contribution by Michel Chion For this month's theme, french composer and researcher Michel Chion very kindly allowed me to translate a tutorial he wrote about analog tape techniques. This tutorial is actually an appendix of a book on the much larger subject of concrete music, La musique concrète, art des sons fixés (the examples given by Chion are also from music … [Read more...]
News: April Tucker Interview
Episode 42 of the The Sonic Garage Podcast features an interview with April Tucker. April has worked in Los Angeles for over a decade in a variety of post-production audio roles: Re-recording mixer, sound editor, music editor, music/scoring mixer, ADR engineer, and Foley engineer. She has worked on television series for all the US major networks, over a dozen cable networks, … [Read more...]
Learning VR Audio: First Steps and DesigningSound.org VR Audio Resources
As many of the writers that contribute to DesigningSound have explored, there is a huge benefit gained by the community when tutorials and learning materials are freely shared. Well established tools and pipelines have a multitude of learning resources available, including video and written tutorials, making it relatively easy to learn new techniques outside of a school or … [Read more...]
Self-teaching your way into the audio world
Picture by littlevisuals.co As exciting as it is, the world of audio is extremely vague and can easily be frightening for any newcomers -the word itself covering such a variety of fields with so few common things between them. It seemed important, for this month dedicated to Tutorials, to try to give, with the help of specialists in their respective fields, as much guidance as … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 29 – The World as Sound Designer
As the year continues, many of these posts will be philosophical in nature. Some will be in contradiction to previous postings. These are not intended as truths or assertions, they’re merely thoughts…ideas. Think of this as stream of consciousness over a wide span… I've kept a notebook for sound items and ideas over the last 6 years. It's not something I regularly write in. … [Read more...]
CREATING TUTORIALS:
How to develop successful tutorials, using marketing strategy from Motion and Brand Designer, Anthony Prats and advice from composer/sound designers, David Earl and Akash Thakkar. Whether we're aware of it or not, we are constantly being exposed to tutorials. Sometimes it’s because we’re actively searching for how to do something, but other times, we merely run across … [Read more...]
Serj Phomin—How I’ve Pushed the Boundary at Phonophilist
Serj Phomin is the founder of Phonophilist, an independent sound effects studio that produces dozens of libraries featuring woodworking, boats, farm animals, tools, cars, water, impulse responses and more. In this interview, Serj expanded upon the original 'Pushing the Boundary' questionnaire to give more details about his work philosophies and experiences. To hear about … [Read more...]