Fitting our monthly theme "Fear", a recent episode of the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast explores how Hollywood crafts the sounds of horror and why these sounds trigger fear. Guests include Formosa Group Senior Sound Editor/Sound Designer Trevor Gates and Dan Blumstein, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. You can listen to the episode here. [image … [Read more...]
Gamasutra Audio Design Deep Dive: Martin Stig Andersen On Scoring Wolfenstein II Using Baschet Sonic Sculptures
Martin Stig Andersen (Limbo, INSIDE) has written an extensive piece about his recent work on Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in which he describes his use of Baschet Instruments, unique sound sculptures created by two French Brothers named François and Bernard Baschet. You can read the full article here. … [Read more...]
Riot Games: Creative Contest 2017 This Year With Category Sound Design
Riot Games has recently announced this years creative contest including for the 1st time a Sound Design category. The rules will be announced at the beginning of the contest. It starts November 6th and lasts until January 31 2018. You can read the official announcement here. [image credit: Riot Games] … [Read more...]
Special Academy Award Granted to VR Experience ‘Carne y Arena’
For only the second time in history (the first was 1996's Toy Story), the Academy is granting a special Oscar, this time to Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu for the virtual reality experience, Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible). The experience was hosted at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and remains on exhibition in Los Angeles, … [Read more...]
postPerspective: The Sound Of Netflix’s The Defenders
postPerspective recently published an article about Supervising Sound Editor Lauren Stephens work on Netflix's The Defenders. You can read the full story here. … [Read more...]
Soundworks Collection: The Sound Of Blade Runner 2049
Soundworks Collection has just published a in-depth video about the sound & music of Bladerunner 2049. You can watch it here. … [Read more...]
SiegeCon: Watson Wu’s Giveaway
If you are attending SiegeCon in Atlanta this weekend, you are in luck! Watson Wu will be hosting a raffle during both of his game audio talks, giving audience members the chance to win microphones, swag, gift cards, and more. To learn more about the giveaway and its sponsors, check out Watson's blog post. And if you haven't purchased tickets to SiegeCon yet, they are … [Read more...]