With the Academy Awards just days away, we’ve started working on our Oscar pools and that got us to thinking: what is sound design, really? We know that sound is so integral to film. It creates emotion, fills empty space, and adds context and texture to the picture. The problem, of course, is that, like editing, good sound design is almost indiscernible to the uninitiated. And … [Read more...]
Interview with Nick Wiswell, Audio director of Turn 10
The vehicle focused Track Time Audio blog has posted an interview with Turn 10's and ex-Bizarre Creations Creative Audio Director Nick Wiswell, covering the production of Forza Motorsport 4 and the pipeline of recording sessions to finished in-game audio for the car engines. TTA: Could you talk a bit about the process a vehicle goes through between recording session and … [Read more...]
Antique Engines, New Library by Rabbit Ears Audio
Rabbit Ears Audio has released Antique Engines, a new library of 192k recordings of 11 different engines, including 9.63GB of sound data. REA_009 is a collection of stationary antique engines (both steam and gas) that were used for DC power generation. At the turn of the century before electricity was widely available, these engines were used to provide energy to water plants, … [Read more...]
Randy Thom Interview at VIEW Conference 2011
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-6r9WW5ecI[/youtube] An interview with sound designer Randy Thom at VIEW Conference 2011. Thanks to Matteo for the link! … [Read more...]
Mavericks Of Sound Design Panel
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMjaGA9zo_o[/youtube] Spectrasonics has uploaded the full sound design panel that Eric Persing, Diego Stocco, Richard Devine and Scott Gershin gave at the 2011 Moogfest in Asheville, North Carolina. Maybe you remember that we shared several video recordings from the panel a couple of weeks ago, but this one has much better quality and … [Read more...]
Sylvain Lasseur Interview
Symbolic Sound has published on their blog called "the eight nerve", an interview with sound designer Sylvain Lasseur talking about his use of Kyma system and several aspects about his work. Sound designer Sylvain Lasseur is not just bi-coastal; he’s bi-contintental, working part time in Paris and part time in Los Angeles! We recently had a chance to ask him a few questions … [Read more...]
The Sound of “Hugo”
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/36426777[/vimeo] In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection video profile, producer Michael Coleman sits down with the oscar nominated sound team of HUGO including co-supervising sound editor Philip Stockton, co-supervising sound editor Eugene Gearty, and re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman. Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Brian Selznick’s award-winning … [Read more...]