This month you can leave your DAW, VSTs and AUs at the door because we're going to be taking a look at hardware. From the beginnings of audio reproduction though to skeuomorphic plugin UI designs, hardware and its influence has always been present in our world. … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 61: The Colors Of Sound
Through an article on one of y my favorite blogs, I recently learned about a rare neurological crossing of senses which is called Synesthesia. In one particular manifestation of the phenomena called Chromesthesia, individuals associate sounds with colors & even shapes. Not in a metaphorical sense, like we’re used to for describing sounds, but as actual … [Read more...]
I Started an Audio Podcast and So Can You
Guest post by Matthew Marteinsson So podcasts… there’s a lot of them. I’ve been running one for three years now and feel we’ve got a pretty good listenership. Maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe you haven’t. It’s Beards, Cats, And Indie Game Audio, or #BCAIGA as I like to call it. (I’ve got a thing for unwieldy acronyms). I co-host with Gordon … [Read more...]
Worldwide Game Audio Groups
Time spent, the short amount of time that we have together, in conversation between people has a way of rapidly accelerating the incubation of thoughts inside one's own head. Whether you share this opinion now, as a reflection of your experiences, or come to this realization later in life - when the moments that came before feel like the endless flickering of the … [Read more...]
The Calm and the Chaos: Creating the Sound for ‘Dishonored 2’
In 2012, the stealth-action video game Dishonored was released. Developed by Arkane Studios and released by Bethesda, it was what any fan of sly first-person games could hope for. In the industrial, free-roaming city of Dunwall, players could choose to be a lethal action hero, a strategic assassin, or a nonviolent vigilante, avoiding brutal deaths through quick reaction and … [Read more...]
Mixing “Serial” (no milk required) – An interview with Kate Bilinski
For this month's theme, I interviewed Kate Bilinski who was a editor and mixer on the second season of the Serial podcast. Kate is a sound designer and re-recording mixer. Outside of the Serial podcast, she makes noises for film and television, including Todd Solondz’s ‘Wiener-Dog’ and the Emmy-winning documentary, ‘We Could Be King.’ Serial is a serialized award-winning … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought #60 – A Perspective on the Growing Pains in VR
The term "VR" encompasses it all. The platform, the technology, the medium, the content, all of which are experiencing a rapid development, rapid failure period during which we have no agreed upon procedures or format. Currently we have just a few key players developing different pieces of hardware with different capabilities and its yet to be seen whether they will continue to … [Read more...]