As the documentary format moves further into the 21st century, audio is playing an ever increasing role in helping directors communicate their thoughts and ideas to the viewer. In a recent article posted to doxmagazine.com, Peter Albrechtsen goes in depth with Christopher Barnett, the sound designer for this year's MPSE documentary sound design award winning film, Dirty Wars. … [Read more...]
SFX Independence – Welcome to 2014
The year is still fresh, but 2014's already brought us a number of great new SFX libraries. Go back to analog times and the earliest days of digital with new collections from New Sound Labs and Dynamic Interference. Monkey around with HISS and a ROAR's latest offering. Or just blow the whole thing up with help from Blastwave FX. … [Read more...]
Wwise Limbo Redux Contest
The game Limbo was originally released in 2010, and quickly garnered much critical acclaim for its combination of fluid gameplay, beautiful art style, and evocative sound design. The 2011 DS interview with Sound Designer Martin Stig Andersen gives great insight into the creative decisions he made to bring the game's world to life. Now over three years later, Audiokinetic - … [Read more...]
2014 UK Music+Sound Awards Call for Entries
The 3rd Annual UK Music+Sound Awards is now accepting entries. MASA 2014 celebrates the role of music and sound design in the advertising, film, television and gaming industries. The program is open to anyone involved in the creation, composition, sourcing, licensing, briefing, or production of music and sound design for any visual media broadcast or released in the UK. … [Read more...]
Impulsonic Unity Demo
Impulsonic has recently released a Unity Demo that highlights the advanced capabilities of their Acoustect SDK in a game environment. Though best known for its use in detailed architectural acoustic modeling, the SDK provides a physically based 3D audio technology perfectly suited for game engines, providing an incredibly fast simulation of realistic sound occlusion. It allows … [Read more...]
“What Is Sound Design…?” Symposium
Designing Sound readers in the vicinity of Edinburgh, Scotland should take note of the University of Edinburgh's first symposium on sound, coming up on November 27th, 28th, and 29th. The event, titled "What is sound design...?," aims to ask more questions than it answers, bringing together speakers from the domains of film sound, games, performance, forensics, social … [Read more...]
Sound Librarian Recording Workshop
DS readers in and around Melbourne, Australia should check out the upcoming Sound Librarian Recording Workshop at Docklands Studio. This FREE, all-day event, headed by noted Sound Designer Stephan Schütze, will offer a hands-on look at a number of useful recording and Foley techniques. The event will take place at an enormous, world-class sound stage, and attendees are … [Read more...]